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sdxcentral.com | January 23, 2020

Arista Networks bought SDN vendor Big Switch Networks, according to sources familiar with the deal.The purchase is Arista’s largest acquisition to date, according to a source. It’s also the networking vendor’s third acquisition Arista in 2018 snapped up cloud-managed WiFi firm Mojo Networks and then a month later bought Metamako, a provider of low-latency field programmable gate array (FPGA) products.While Arista ultimately won, Big Switch had a long list of suitors that wanted...

bloomberg.com | January 21, 2020

Google signed a 10-year deal with travel-software provider Sabre Corp., a key win for the search giant in the competitive cloud-computing market.Sabre will pay Google to handle parts of its information-technology system and for data-analytics tools. Additionally, the companies agreed to collaborate on online travel services, a sign of Google leaning on its massive consumer business to lure enterprise clients.Sabre and Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced the partnership on Tuesday as a “...

techhq.com | January 16, 2020

If we needed evidence of cloud computing’s success, that AWS revenue has risen from US$300 million in 2009 to become a US$32 billion business today, is fairly substantial. What began as a movement to provide companies with easier and more cost-effective access to IT infrastructure has become the most important computing development in history,opens a new report by AllCloud which cements the trajectory of what is, simply, access to ‘computers on the internet.According to the Cloud Inf...

information-age.com | January 13, 2020

Both the data lake and the data warehouse within the cloud have their benefits. While data lakes consist of unorganised lagoons without categories, they are great for data scientists to analyse different kinds of data at once.The two kinds of data storage also differ in the tools that can be accessed.In general, for the likes of Redshift, Snowflake, Azure, SQL Data Warehouse, one of the most important things when you talk about a data warehouse is the accessibility to the tools that are availabl...