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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 …
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 …
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 …
Couchbase Server 4.0 opens the door to SQL on NoSQL
Couchbase Inc. yesterday released version 4.0 of its Couchbase Server NoSQL database, introducing a new SQL-compatible query language that expands the potential use cases of the platform and, according to the company, gives it the edge over rival databases offered by companies …
Sony’s semiconductor business to go it alone in organizational reshuffle
Sony Corp. is about to undergo a bit of an organizational reshuffle with the announcement that it’s to spin off its semiconductor business and reshape its Devices division. In about six months time, Sony Semiconductor Solutions will split from the rest of …
Rackspace is now a fanatical supporter of AWS | #AWSreinvent
Fanatical support specialist Rackspace Inc. has confirmed rumors that first emerged last week, announcing it will now sell and support Amazon Web Services’ cloud, in a similar deal to what it previously inked with Microsoft. On Tuesday at AWS re:Invent, Rackspace launched …
IDC: The enterprise is throwing money at the cloud
International Data Corp. (IDC) has gone out on a limb with the prediction that cloud IT infrastructure will account for a third of all enterprise IT infrastructure spending this year. IDC’s latest survey estimates that total worldwide spending on cloud IT infrastructure …
Basho revs up Riak TS for the Internet of Things
Basho Technologies Inc., the company behind the development of the popular Riak NoSQL database, has just released a version designed explicitly for the Internet of Things. Called Riak TS, or “Riak Time Series”, the database now stands alongside Riak S2, the cloud …
Amazon to launch analytics service, super-fast database at AWS re:Invent?
Amazon Web Services is rumored to be announcing two major new product launches at its AWS re:Invent conference later today, including a new data analytics service and a “super-fast” database, according to reports. Analytics on AWS The Wall Street Journal claims that …
Elliott gives EMC 3 week deadline over Federation break-up
The activist investor that’s been manipulating things behind the scenes at EMC Corp. has given the company until the end of this month to decide if it’ll give into its demands to sell off VMware Inc. as a way of maximizing shareholder …