Tag: Database and System Software
Salesforce has dropped its acquisition plans to buy data management software company Informatica for an estimated $11 billion, reports indicate. Salesforce has reportedly backed away from its pursuit to acquire Informatica, a data management software specialist, for roughly $11 billion. Both sides couldn’t agree on the terms of the deal and talks have now come…
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Here are the 50 hottest data center companies in the world—which includes tech giants, colocation specialists and edge providers—that made CRN’s 2024 Data Center 50 list. Data center innovation is being taken to the next level in the new era of artificial intelligence as chipmakers such as AMD and Nvidia, hardware leaders such as Cisco…
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Salesforce’s biggest acquisition was the $28 billion purchase of Slack in 2021. Salesforce reportedly wants to buy artificial intelligence-powered cloud data management vendor Informatica, according to multiple news outlets, not long after its frequent acquisitions put Salesforce in the crosshairs of activist investors. Should Salesforce – a San Francisco-based customer relationship management software vendor –…
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‘The combined power of the BMC Helix platform and Netreo solutions provides IT Operations, DevOps practitioners, developers, and network teams with comprehensive insights spanning applications, infrastructure, and networks, helping them increase the overall reliability and performance,’ wrote Margaret Lee, BMC’s senior vice president and general manager of digital service and operations management, in a blog…
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‘When you think about how much of [our revenue] is actually managed on a day-to-day [basis] by the partners, they’re massive custodians of the brand and customer success and lifetime value,’ says Salesforce channel chief Steve Corfield. Steve Corfield, capping off his first year as Salesforce channel chief, is at work on what he calls…
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G42 ‘will run its AI applications and services on Microsoft Azure’ as part of the deal. Microsoft plans to invest $1.5 billion in an artificial intelligence company based in the United Arab Emirates in exchange for a minority stake and a board of directors seat for Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith. The Redmond,…
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The security and observability platform developer is laying off about 325 workers with most of the cuts in North America, according to an SEC filing. Splunk is laying off about 4 percent of its workforce or about 325 employees, the unified security and observability platform developer disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and…
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The expanded Accelerate with Confluent initiative offers resources and expertise to help systems integrators develop repeatable services and solutions around the Confluent data streaming platform and help customers realize value more quickly. Data streaming technology developer Confluent has launched a revamped partner program to help systems integrators better develop and deliver solutions based on the…
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‘The facts that our investigation uncovered were egregious. We look forward to presenting our evidence and proving our claims in the litigation,’ Tyler Wall, Nutanix’s chief legal officer, said in a statement. Three former Nutanix employees who developed its Era database management product left the company and, opened a competitor 18 months later that sold…
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The MongoDB database powers Alibaba Cloud’s ApsaraDB for MongoDB database-as-a-service offering, which is seeing significant sales growth in China, especially among gaming developers, according to the companies. Next-generation database developer MongoDB and Chinese cloud platform giant Alibaba Cloud are extending by four years their strategic alliance under which the MongoDB cloud database is the foundation…
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