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Broadcom, Ltd bought Brocade Communications Systems today for $5.9 billion, giving the company a strong offering in networking storage business. It’s quite a nice deal for Brocade shareholders, who gain a 47 percent premium over the $8.69 closing price last Friday night (October 28th). Under the terms of the deal, Broadcom will pay $12.75 per share. It’s an all-cash $5.5… Read More Continue reading Broadcom acquires Brocade in $5.9 billion deal
For the last several years, Elastic has offered a range of analytics and visualization tools to go with its open source search engine. Today, it announced it was pulling those pieces together into an integrated stack.
The new product known as Elastic Stack includes all of the companies products: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash and Beats. It’s available for download or as part of the… Read More Continue reading Elastic brings order to its product line with Elastic Stack
Zendesk has always been known as a customer service cloud application, and while its focus remains on the customer, it is attempting to expand the mission using data to drive communication and understanding about the customer. The company wants to make sure that everyone involved has the whole picture of the customer experience and hopes to provide assistance whenever and wherever people… Read More Continue reading Zendesk expands beyond the help desk
Salesforce has a history of staying close to the cutting edge of technology, so it shouldn’t be surprising that it announced an artificial intelligence initiative recently, it dubbed Einstein.
We caught up with some key members of the Einstein team at Dreamforce earlier this month and asked them to explain the new technology for us.
Einstein isn’t a product so much as a set of… Read More Continue reading Salesforce looks to the future with Einstein artificial intelligence
DocuSign built a $3 billion valuation by providing a simple way to execute an electronic signature. That has worked well as far as it goes, but in order to separate from the growing pack of competitor companies, it announced today that it’s allowing users to add a payment to be collected digitally at signing. This is particularly important for contracts that require a down payment… Read More Continue reading DocuSign partners with major payment providers to offer pay at signing
The application is where we traditionally tend to work with a piece of software, but with the increasing use of APIs, sometimes the application is just one way of interacting with the tool. Looker announced version 4 of its data visualization tool today with expanded ways to make use of the data beyond the interface itself.
Sure, they updated the interface as part of today’s broad… Read More Continue reading Looker expands beyond the confines of the application in its latest release
Cisco announced today that it was acquiring Worklife, a member of the Y Combinator winter 2015 class, for an undisclosed amount of money.
Worklife was founded with the idea of improving online meetings, something that Cisco has been working on for years. It of course owns WebEx and it has been trying to enhance that experience in recent years with Cisco Spark. Cisco intends to add the… Read More Continue reading Cisco strengthens Spark meetings management with Worklife acquisition
VMware signed deals with Microsoft, Google and IBM earlier this year as it has shifted firmly to a hybrid cloud strategy, but it was the deal it signed with AWS this week that has had everybody talking. The cloud infrastructure market breaks down to AWS with around a third of the market — and everybody else. Microsoft is the closest competitor with around 10 percent. While VMware has… Read More Continue reading AWS gets richer with VMware partnership
Atlassian wants the best of both the cloud and data center worlds, and it announced at the Atlassian Summit today that it was expanding its data center-cloud strategy with new products. At a time when companies are shifting their business to the … Continue reading Atlassian keeps one foot in the data center and one in the cloud with new products
Facebook officially entered the enterprise market this week with the release of Workplace by Facebook (previously known as Facebook at Work). It goes without saying that Facebook has had tremendous success as a consumer tool, but the enterprise is a different place with distinct requirements. While it picked up a 1000 beta customers when it was free, it could find that enterprises,… Read More Continue reading Facebook is about to learn the enterprise is a different animal