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Dell dumps OpenStack and VMware for public cloud, focuses on private clouds
Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing a VMware-based public cloud it already has on the market.
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How VMware will try to shake up the cloud market this week
There have been rumors and speculation. There have been whispers and rumblings. But this week VMware is expected to release details about its plans to launch a public cloud offering, the central part of its new hybrid cloud strategy.
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Dell profit dives 79 percent on falling PC sales
Dell reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue Thursday as CEO Michael Dell continues his fight to take the company private.
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Dell 'refining' plans for OpenStack-powered public cloud
Fresh off the acquisition of a company that specializes in helping customers manage resources across multiple public clouds, Dell said it is "refining" its own plans to build a public cloud based on OpenStack.
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McAfee LiveSafe integrates cloud and Intel chip security in one product
McAfee has announced LiveSafe, a premium software and security service it believes can shore up the failing edifice of antivirus protection using a mixture of encryption, cloud storage, password management, authentication and malware defence for PCs, Macs, tablets and smartphones.
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Dell board warns Icahn bid could leave the company short of cash
A plan proposed by Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management last week as an alternative to Michael Dell's proposal to take his namesake company private would leave it short of cash, Dell's board warned the bidders on Monday.
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Icahn, Southeastern make alternative bid for Dell
Investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management have made a counter-offer for Dell that would keep the computer company still publicly traded, according to reports.
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Glasgow Uni supports CERN research with high throughput network from Extreme
CERN?s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland is the focal point of a massive international collaboration to explore the nature of matter and the origins of our universe, but it creates a data deluge beyond the processing power of traditional data centres. The data is therefore sent out to a worldwide grid of 350,000 servers, so that it can be processed and analysed.
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Betfair selects VMware vCloud to speed app development
Online betting exchange Betfair has implemented VMware?s vCloud as its attempts to redefine its IT department as a ?service broker, delivering virtualised environments to its agile development team through software defined data centre tools.
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Dell boosts cloud portfolio with Enstratius buy
Adding to its portfolio of IT management software, Dell has acquired Enstratius (formerly called EnStratus), which offers software for managing workloads in hosted cloud environments.
