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CrunchBase debuts pro version of its database of tech startups
CrunchBase Inc., the online database of the tech startup ecosystem that spun out of TechCrunch Inc. and parent company AOL/Verizon late last year, is debuting a professional version of its service with better search, filtering and notification capabilities than its free offering. The company is pitching CrunchBase Pro, which is priced at $29 per month on ...
Analysts like Dell’s post-EMC prospects, but not so much HPE’s
History may well mark Labor Day week of 2016 as the end of an era in enterprise computing. The completion of Dell Inc.’s acquisition of EMC to form Dell Technologies Inc., along with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co.’s (HPE) sale of most of its software business to UK-based Micro Focus International plc has taken two venerable players out ...
Personal care firm untangles ERP knot with cloud data warehouse
When you’re growing by acquisition, and each company you buy uses a different financial software platform, you need to get creative. At Domtar Corp.’s Personal Care division, that meant leaving transactional systems in place and using a cloud-based data warehouse as an integration point. A spate of five acquisitions over a three-year period between 2011 ...
MapR stresses stability in naming Oracle veteran Mills as CEO
Big data software vendor MapR Technologies Inc. is putting a 20-year Oracle veteran in charge of its day-to-day operations as it enters the home stretch of what it hopes will be the road to an initial public offering (IPO). The company promoted Matt Mills (above right) to chief executive and named co-founder and previous CEO John ...
HPE to sell most of its software business to UK-based Micro Focus
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. will sell much of its software business to U.K.-based Micro Focus International plc for $8.8 billion, retaining a 50.5 percent share of the unit in a deal announced today.
Dell completes historic $67B acquisition of EMC
The drama is finally over. Nearly a year after announcing an audacious $67 billion bid for EMC Corp., Dell Technologies Inc. today officially announced that the deal is done. The combined companies begin doing business today under the Dell Technologies brand. It has actually been all over but the shouting since July 19, when 98 ...
BMC sketches road map for its customers’ digital transformation
BMC Software Inc. kicked off its global user conference today by outlining a seven-part initiative based upon digital transformation and rolled out two new automation products aimed at DevOps and digital business. The roadmap that BMC CEO Robert E. Beauchamp laid out to attendees builds on the Digital Enterprise Management strategy the company laid out ...
What’s holding back containers? Red Hat evangelist has some ideas
To hear Scott McCarty say it, the biggest barriers to the adoption of software containers in the enterprise are as much political as they are technical. McCarty (@fatherlinux, below left), whose role as a solutions architect specializing in containers at Red Hat Inc. has him traveling the world to educate and evangelize the value of ...
IBM study: Top performers have their hybrid cloud act together
Nearly 80 percent of C-level executives say their cloud efforts are coordinated or fully integrated, up from just 34 percent four years ago. That’s according to a new study by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV). The survey of 1,000 executives across 18 industries also finds that cloud computing is a driving force for innovation, ...
Cirba folds expert advisers into infrastructure optimization service
Infrastructure optimization vendor Cirba Inc. has put its Densify virtual infrastructure capacity management software in the cloud and added new advisory services. The new capability, called Expert Insight, provides customers with “interactive insight and guidance on risks and opportunities in their VMware or hybrid cloud environments,” according the company. Advice is integrated into the core user ...