Broadcom, Ltd bought Brocade Communications Systems today for $5.9 billion, giving the company a strong offering in networking storage business. It’s quite a nice deal for Brocade shareholders, who gain a 47 percent premium
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Otonomo raises $12 million to make data from connected cars useful
Even if self-driving cars aren’t part of our daily lives yet, vehicles are becoming internet-connected at a rapid pace. Gartner predicts that one-fifth of all autos on the road, and
Axonify raises $27M to gamify employee training without wasting your time
Think back to the last time you had to do a corporate training. More likely than not it was a frustrating experience that you simply tried to survive rather than
Marc Andreessen joins board of Dialpad, the desk phone killer
Silicon Valley’s most talkative investor will bring his enterprise experience and connections to the makers of UberConference. Office cloud communications startup Dialpad today announced that Marc Andreessen is joining its
Classy raises $30 million to help nonprofits raise donations, make a greater impact
A San Diego startup called Classy has raised $30 million for software-as-a-service that helps nonprofits raise donations online, and keep supporters engaged in a good cause for the long run.
Microsoft open sources its next-gen cloud hardware design
Microsoft today open sourced its next-gen hyperscale cloud hardware design and contributed it to the Open Compute Project (OCP). Microsoft joined the OCP, which also includes Facebook, Google, Intel, IBM, Rackspace
NFV and the Tebow thing
As a collegian, Tim Tebow was legendary. In his time at the University of Florida, he won two National Championships and the Heisman Trophy, and shattered numerous records. He is
Open source no longer scares a enterprise
Shift in shopping practices Businesses are used to traffic with a vital IT providers and some open source program companies have successfully mimicked blurb models to sell open source to
HPE gears its updated Helion OpenStack distribution toward telcos
HPE is in an interesting position. Now that it has shut down its Helion public cloud business, its main focus is on its private and managed cloud services, which center around
Samsung acquires Tachyon to extend enterprise mobile device management
Samsung’s mobile operation has taken a big hit of late, with profits plunging 30% in the last quarter in the wake of the Note 7 recall. But today, the company is
Insurers are fasten fintech party
Legacy IT holding behind creation in insurance Like vast sell banks, word leaders bring miss of lively caused by legacy IT systems, especially Cobol-based, as a vital cause holding them
A maturing OpenStack looks to the future
OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform that allows enterprises to essentially run their own version of AWS in their data centers, was founded by NASA and Rackspace in 2010.
Virgin Atlantic finds village advantage with Salesforce
Virgin Atlantic Airlines has found an lively advantage to regulating patron attribute government record from Salesforce. But Spencer Collins, conduct of tellurian sales efficacy during Virgin Atlantic, says a value
Alluxio launches its memory-centric storage system for big data workloads
Alluxio, formerly known as Tachyon, raised a $7.5 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz earlier this year. Today, the company is launching the first commercial product based on its
Zendesk expands beyond the help desk
Zendesk has always been known as a customer service cloud application, and while its focus remains on the customer, it is attempting to expand the mission using data to drive
