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SAP suddenly becomes a ‘cloud giant’ with $8bn Concur acquisition
Enterprise software giant SAP SE has just grown new legs following the acquisition of enterprise travel and business expense management software maker Concur Technologies in a massive $8.3 billion deal. The Germany-based firm announced it’ll pay $129 a share to buy out Concur, which is a 20 percent premium on the Seattle firm’s listed stock ...
VMware offers ‘Safe Passage’ to AirWatch
VMware raised a few eyebrows earlier this year when it splurged over a billion dollars on AirWatch, a company that makes mobile device management (MDM) software. At the time many were asking why? After all, VMware does virtualization of servers, networks and storage, in data centers or private and public clouds. It’s most definitely not ...
Canonical & AMD team up with OpenStack-on-a-rack
Ubuntu vendor Canonical has teamed up with AMD to make it easier for users to deploy an OpenStack private cloud. The companies have cobbled together AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server Edition, and OpenStack together with a bunch of tools that allow users to build more reliable and flexible private OpenStack clouds. To make ...
MapR 4.0.1 release lets you ‘Drill’ into your Big Data
MapR has just added Apache Drill to its Hadoop distro, giving its customers a new way to use SQL to query their Big Data stores. The open-source Drill project is one that’s been largely developed by MapR itself. The aim was to create something similar to Google’s own Dremel data analysis tool, which is available ...
IBM brings Big Data to the masses with Watson Analytics
In the three years since IBM’s Watson computer destroyed the two all-time Jeopardy! champions in an exhibition game, many people have wondered how IBM will bring the Watson question answering technology to market. Now those questions are being answered. IBM yesterday released a new data analytics tool called Watson Analytics aimed at helping everyone from secretaries ...
Rackspace declares it’s NOT for sale following lowball offers
Cloud hosting provider Rackspace Hosting Inc. has announced it’s no longer planning to sell itself or merge with another company after it failed to receive any offers ‘worthy’ enough. Rackspace announced it was considering “inbound strategic proposals” last May when it hired the services of Morgan Stanley to help it decide what its next steps should ...
IBM ranked as top dog in software-defined storage platforms niche
IDC has just published its second quarter 2014 Worldwide Storage Software Qview survey, ranking IBM as the world’s top supplier of Software-defined Storage Platforms (SDS-P). SDS-P is described as ”a new functional market added to the total storage software market that covers block, file, object, and/or hyper-converged software offerings that enable the creation of a ...
Reports say EMC XtremIO firmware 3.0 upgrade wipes out flash data
EMC is under fire over reports that upgrading to the as-yet-unreleased version 3.0 of its XtremIO subsystem deletes all data from the flash array, and that users need to back up everything first. The rumor came from Andrew Dauncey on The Odd Angry Shot blog. XtremIO firmware v3.0 is supposed to add speed performance and ...
Comcast: “We haven’t banned Tor, in fact we use it too”
Comcast yesterday denied allegations it’s threatening to cut off customers who use the anonymous Tor web browser. Jason Livingood, VP of internet & communications engineering at Comcast, penned a blog post which insisted, “Comcast is not asking customers to stop using Tor, or any other browser for that matter.” The post explains that Comcast doesn’t have ...
Gartner: Flash array startups ranked ahead of EMC, HP and IBM
Gartner Inc. has ranked three upstarts ahead of the likes of EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Company and IBM in its latest solid-state appliance critical capabilities report: namely, Kaminario, Pure Storage and SolidFire Inc. Gartner’s latest assessment differs from its most recent Magic Quadrant for solid-state arrays, which looks at an organization’s vision and its ability to ...