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Symphony grabs $100M to build out its secure messaging platform
Secure cloud-based messaging platform Symphony Communication Services LLC has announced a fresh funding round worth over $100 million, led by Google Inc. along with a clutch of other investors. The Wall Street Journal actually reported Google’s investment in Symphony late last week, but it turns out the search engine giant isn’t alone, as it’s also ...
Dell & VMware target sales bonanza: Will customers buy it?
In the wake of yesterday’s mega merger between Dell Inc. and EMC Corp., Pat Gelsinger, CEO of EMC’s VMware Inc. beamed that he “could not be more excited about today’s announcement”, adding that the deal is a “very positive” one for all concerned. Gelsinger could be right, and the deal is unlikely to bring about ...
Dell tried to sell its PC business before buying EMC
One of the more interesting rumors emerging in the wake of yesterday’s massive Dell Inc./EMC Corp. merger is the revelation that Dell apparently tried to offload its PC business in the weeks running up to the deal. According to Re/Code, Dell’s main financial backer and co-owner Silver Lake Partners approached a number of tech firms ...
Wikibon analysts praise Dell-EMC deal but note devil is in the details
Dell Inc’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC Corp. will create the world’s largest “privately-controlled, integrated technology company,” the two tech giants said upon announcing the deal this morning. No doubt that’s music to the ears of the bankers financing the deal, but industry analysts are skeptical if the deal will benefit anyone else. For $67 ...
Alibaba’s AliCloud launches second U.S. data center
AliCloud, the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group Holding Limited, has announced the opening of a second data center facility in Silicon Valley, and is inviting potential customers to sign up for its new services when it launches later today. Alibaba has ambitious global expansion plans for AliCloud, having signed up with a number ...
IBM POWERS up new Linux servers for Big Data workloads
Technologies like Apache Spark and Hadoop have already delivered on their promise to help enterprises extract insights from their Big Data. Now, organizations are hungry for advanced IT infrastructure systems to get the most out of these tools, with more choice, greater flexibility and better price-performance than typical x86 servers provide. To that end, IBM ...
Microsoft brings data-blending benefits to Power BI with Alteryx
Microsoft has formed a partnership with data blending and analytics firm Alteryx Inc. to bolster its Power BI applications. Alteryx’s solution is capable of accommodating many different kinds of data via a simple drag-and-drop workflow. The platform is designed to cleanse, transform and then enrich data to prepare it for advanced predictive, spatial and statistical ...
Dell negotiating $40 billion in loans to acquire EMC & VMware
Yet more details have emerged regarding Dell Inc.’s possible takeover of EMC Corp. The latest leak from “people with knowledge of the matter” says Dell has approached a number of banks to try and put together the $40 billion it would need to finance a complete takeover of EMC. Bloomberg says Dell is preparing to ...
Dell looking to buy part of EMC’s storage business, not the entire company
Further details have emerged about Dell Inc.’s reported bid to takeover EMC Corp., with Re/Code claiming the former is only offering to buy part of the latter’s data storage business, rather than the entire company lock, stock and barrel. That differs from The Wall Street Journal‘s original report, which suggested that Dell was trying to ...
AWS re:Invent 2015 news roundup | #reinvent
Amazon Web Services’ Senior Vice President Andy Jassy took to the stage at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas yesterday to announce a whole raft of new services during his keynote. In just two hours, AWS lifted the lid on Snowball, QuickSight, Kinesis Firehose, Inspector, a new Database Migration Service, the Schema Conversion Tool, Config Rules ...