EMC-VMware spinoff Pivotal is putting its money behind Tachyon, an in-memory distributed file system developed by the same research lab that created Apache Spark. The goal is to improve the company’s… Read more »
One thing is for sure, we can expect to see much more of cloud consolidation and disruption happening in the IT space over the coming months and years. Recently, Cisco, EMC,… Read more »
The week in cloud: Amazon has said that live migration would not have averted last month’s cloud reboots. But folks are betting it’s working on the technology just the same. Read more »
Symantec’s division comes just days after Hewlett-Packard and eBay did the same. It’s clear that big tech companies are streamlining themselves to please their shareholders. Read more »
In its present state, Cisco is too big and slow to compete in a downsizing world of IT vendors, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Sue. Read more »
The specter of an HP-EMC merger loomed large over Monday morning’s Hewlett-Packard analyst call, which was held to discuss HP’s impending split into two public companies. Read more »
Turns out breaking up isn’t that hard after all: HP plans to announce Monday that it will split itself into two companies, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Read more »
The Wall Street Journal reports that EMC and HP seriously discussed a “merger of equals,” but talks broke down over fear that shareholders would not swallow the deal. Read more »