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Citrix reportedly holds talks with Dell as it scrambles to find a buyer
Citrix Systems Inc. is looking to sell its entire self as quickly as possible, with Dell Inc. being mooted as a possible buyer, Reuters reported. But if that doesn’t happen, the company will try to sell off its individual business units. Poorly performing Citrix has found itself under siege from the renowned activist investment firm ...
Microsoft releases Office 2016: What’s new and how much does it cost?
Microsoft has taken the wraps off a major update to Office for Windows, introducing a bunch of new features designed to brings its venerable productivity suite into the new era of cloud connectedness. Office has been a mainstay in the enterprise for longer than many of us have been working, with software like Word, Excel ...
France orders Google to apply ‘right to be forgotten’ everywhere
France’s data protection watchdog has rejected an appeal by Google over the application of the controversial ‘right to be forgotten’ law. The Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, or more simply “CNIL”, has upheld a decision it made earlier this year that says Google must apply the ‘right to be forgotten’ to all of ...
Red Hat boosts guidance on solid second quarter
Open-source enterprise Linux provider Red Hat Inc. posted a solid set of second quarter financials after the bell on Monday. The company surpassed analyst expectations for both its fiscal second-quarter revenue and net income, boosting its guidance for the year. Red Hat reported a net income of $51 million, or $0.28 per share. The company’s ...
Dialog Semiconductor to acquire rival Atmel in $4.6B deal
Dialog Semiconductor Plc, a U.K.-based, German-owned chip maker whose technology powers Apple’s iPhones and iPads, has said it will acquire rival U.S. semiconductor firm Atmel Corp. in a deal valued at $4.6 billion, according to Bloomberg. Dialog, which also sells chips to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and is therefore heavily dependent on the smartphone and ...
Docker expands its toolset as container adoption gathers pace
Container technology continues to gather pace in the enterprise. Docker, the company at the forefront of the Linux container movement, last week announced a major update to the Docker Hub service that aims to automate developer’s workflows and claimed its technology was seeing significant adoption. Alongside this, workload management specialist Univa Corp. has incorporated Docker ...
Microsoft’s built a Linux-based OS to implement software-defined networking
Satya Nadella’s ‘new’ Microsoft has done something the ‘old’ Microsoft would never do. It’s firmly embraced the concept of software-defined networking (SDN) by building a data center network operating system based on Linux. Microsoft belives that doing so gives it much greater control over its network management software than what networking companies can offer. Just ...
Arcadia Data brings visual intelligence to Hadoop
Hadoop is maturing rapidly in the enterprise, with a new survey sponsored by AtScale Inc. revealing almost half of all organizations which have deployed between 10 and 500 plus nodes are realizing “tangible value” from their deployments. But getting Hadoop up and running isn’t easy, as Gartner Inc.’s 2015 Hadoop Adoption Study noted. One of ...
SAP boss Bill McDermott lost an eye, almost died in freak accident
Bill McDermott, CEO of German enterprise software giant SAP SE, has lost an eye after falling onto a glass tumbler in a freak accident that almost claimed his life, it’s been revealed. The accident happened last July, but the story has only emerged this week. According to reports, McDermott’s extremely unfortunate mishap occurred as he ...
AtScale’s Hadoop Maturity Survey highlights Big Data’s relentless growth
Hadoop has well and truly passed the hype cycle and is now delivering tangible value to the almost half of all organizations that have deployed between 10 and 500 plus nodes, according to a comprehensive new survey on the state of the Big Data framework’s maturity. The 2015 Hadoop Maturity Survey, conducted by AtScale Inc., ...