Microsoft has splashed out again. They have just acquired open-source source code management and sharing platform GitHub for $7.5bn. GitHub has a community of 28 million developers and hosts 85…
Riposte to Microsoft’s VMware in Azure
VMware has issued a blog post riposte to Microsoft's recent announcement supporting VMware in the Azure environment. It uses Microsoft's deployment of VMware as an argument that they are indeed the…
Microsoft offers VMware in baremetal Azure
Microsoft's Azure blog has posted an announcement (Transforming your VMware environment with Microsoft Azure) about how they are managing VMware elements with Azure tools, as well as a full VMware…
Qualcomm ships Centriq 2400 ARM server processor
Qualcomm has announced that its new ARM-based server chip is available for commercial shipment. The Centriq 2400 is an ARMv8 64 bit CPU, with 48 cores running at upto 2.6Ghz.…
Meraki connects to Azure cloud
Cisco's Meraki division has extended their vMX100 virtual MX gateway to add Microsoft Azure instances. The new version builds on the previous Amazon AWS only deployment (see Meraki introduces virtual MX…
Elliott Management Acquires Gigamon for $1.6 Billion
Investment agitator and vulture Elliott Management have acquired network monitoring firm Gigamon for $1.6bn. Gigamon have recently posted third quarter results (Gigamon Third Quarter 2017 Financial Highlights). These show revenue…
Azure Data Box is Microsoft’s Snowball and Azure’s sneakernet
Microsoft's Azure platform is gaining a portable hard disk import capability. The shippable disk transfer device will bring them into line with Google's Transfer Appliance and Amazon's AWS Snowball (but…
Rackspace announces intent to acquire Datapipe
Rackspace announce their intent to acquire Datapipe. This will make Rackspace a global leader in multi-cloud managed services, as well as hosting and private cloud provision.