Another country heard from: Why Microsoft should buy Canonical
Pundit Simon Wardley poo-poos any notion that Microsoft should buy Red Hat. Canonical, he writes, is a far more strategic choice.
Zendesk preps IPO; New Pivotal R&D chief makes his pitch
The week in cloud: Zen desk preps for IPO and Hugh Williams, the R&D chief Pivotal lured from eBay talks about why PaaS matters (or should matter) to mainstream legacy companies.
Another day another cloud alliance: This time its VMware and Capgemini
A cloud orchestration layer comprising VMware components integrated by Capgemini will help businesses create vertical cloud service suites to meet their needs, says a Capgemini executive.
CSC, HCL Technologies form global partnership to forklift enterprise apps to the cloud
Moving legacy applications to the cloud can be a bear. The two companies will help the biggest enterprises assess which jobs need to move when; which need to be completely rewritten and which can be tweaked to prolong their useful life.
OpenStack: is it a PaaS killer? The week in cloud
As the latest release of the open-source cloud infrastructure debuted, controversy swirled anew. Will OpenStack kill third-party PaaSes or vice versa?
With Jeff Raikes and Kevin Johnson available, the Microsoft CEO sweepstakes takes off
As Microsoft weighs CEO options, former insiders Jeff Raikes, Kevin Johnson, and outside candidates Alan Mulally and Mike Lawry get a look.
The Structure Show: Parsing Hortonworks, IBM, and all of Facebook’s data
In our second cloud-and-data podcast, we hear from Facebook’s top analytics guy about how the company deals with all that data; we discuss the drama at Hortonworks and IBM oh, and why Infochimps and CSC may be a match made in heaven.
CSC buys Infochimps and its big data platform
IT services and consulting specialist CSC has acquired Infochimps, a startup that sells a big data query and processing platform. Infochimps had raised about $5 million in equity and debt financing since launching in 2009.
AT&T and CSC join to sell clouds on telco-grade network
AT&T (s t) and CSC have formed a “global strategic alliance” to push CSC’s private cloud, BizCloud, and other CSC cloud products atop the telecommunications provider’s networks, the companies announced Tuesday. CSC will offer AT&T customers “application expertise” and migrate applications, while AT&T will handle certain CSC network services for commercial customers through the deal, which runs until 2020.
Even CSC has an internet of things offering now!
Computer Sciences Corporation, the IT services company, is broadening its expertise into the internet of things thanks to a partnership with ThingWorx. While this is a great deal for the five-year-old IoT platform provider, its competitors Axeda or Arrayent might be bummed.