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.
Pundit Simon Wardley poo-poos any notion that Microsoft should buy Red Hat. Canonical, he writes, is a far more strategic choice.
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.
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.
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.
As the latest release of the open-source cloud infrastructure debuted, controversy swirled anew. Will OpenStack kill third-party PaaSes or vice versa?
As Microsoft weighs CEO options, former insiders Jeff Raikes, Kevin Johnson, and outside candidates Alan Mulally and Mike Lawry get a look.
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.
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 (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.
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.