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Intel posted yet another dreary set of financial results in its third quarter earnings report yesterday, though the company may have found a bright spot thanks to its continued growth in the cloud. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich revealed in the earnings call …
IBM’s Ginni Rometty unfazed by Dell/EMC buyout
Taking a lead from Hewlett-Packard Co.’s CEO Meg Whitman, IBM chief Ginni Rometty has gone public with her own take on the Dell Inc./EMC Corp. mega-acquisition. The Register reports that Rometty made her remarks at the Fortune Most Powerful Women event yesterday. …
Dell tech survey: Digital leaders outgrow digital laggards
While the media spotlight has been gazing intensely on Dell Inc.’s merger-acquisition of storage giant EMC Corp., the company found time to quietly release its second annual Global Technology Adoption survey this week. In the survey Dell draws a comparison between what …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …