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Dell looking to dump “non-core” software assets ahead of EMC acquisition
Dell Inc. is reported to be considering selling off some of its “non-core assets” in an effort to raise $10 billion ahead of its $67 billion EMC Corp. acquisition. The usual “unnamed sources” told Reuters that Dell will take on a debt of around $49.5 billion once the acquisition is completed next year. Therefore, the ...
IBM acquires Gravitant to flesh out its hybrid cloud strategy
IBM has snapped up 11-year old cloud brokerage services firm Gravitant Inc. for an undisclosed sum, in order to bolster the management capabilities and efficiency of its hybrid environments for enterprise customers, it said on Tuesday. Gravitant offers technology that enables the integration and management of mixed public and private clouds from multiple providers. IBM ...
CoreOS offers up its Tectonic stack to quash container complexity
Container technology is one of the fastest-growing trends in cloud computing because it promises to help data center managers avoid the complexity of managing virtual machines in the cloud. But although container technology is far simpler than VMs in principle, many IT pros still experience headaches and confusion when attempting to build a container stack. ...
DJI’s Manifold gives drones the power of a PC
Popular Chinese drone maker DJI Inc. is no longer just targeting hobbyists. The company is touting the Manifold, or in its own words “the most powerful computer designed for drones”, an embedded computer powered by a quad-core ARM Cortex A-15 processor. The Manifold has been designed to sit atop of DJI’s $3,300 Matrice 100 drone. ...
HP Inc. shares skyrocket by 13% following split
The newly divorced HP Inc. raised a few eyebrows in the wake of its split yesterday when its share price jumped by more than 13 percent – in contrast to its ex, HP Enterprise, which saw its shares slump by more than five percent. The market activity indicates that Wall Street’s money men believe there’s ...
EMC shareholder makes legal bid to block Dell takeover
A disgruntled EMC Corp. shareholder has thrown a potential legal spanner in the works ahead of its $67 billion takeover by Dell Inc., by filing a lawsuit that aims to block the acquisition. The lawsuit, which was first reported by Bloomberg, was filed by a plaintiff named as “Su Ma” at the state court in ...
Typesafe sends Apache Spark flying with commercial support
Typesafe Inc., the company co-founded by Martin Odersky, creator of the Scala programming language, has announced full commercial support for the Apache Spark Big data processing engine. The move was announced at the Spark Summit Europe event in Amsterdam, Netherlands, last week, and underlines how Apache Spark has effectively become the default in-memory approach to ...
Rackspace offers up Carina containers-as-a-service in beta
Cloud hosting provider Rackspace Inc. is now offering containers-as-a-service through in beta through its newly announced Carina service. Carina is a hosted Docker-based container service that’s currently only available to customers in the U.S. It provides a fully managed implementation of Docker containers, which Rackspace describes as an “instant-on solution that means customers don’t have ...
Amazon, Google & Wal-Mart to work with FAA on drone regs
Delivery drone wannabees Amazon.com, Inc., Google and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. have signed on to a government task force headed up by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to help devise an identification and registration system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). All three companies have thrown their weight behind drone development, and will formulate their recommendations for ...
How the “Big Three” cloud vendors plan to differentiate their services
Last week saw Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft all reported stunning growth in their respective cloud computing segments. The numbers underline what IT watchers have known for some time already – that there’s an almost insatiable appetite for the public cloud among developers – and each of the “Big Three” providers took the opportunity ...