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| November 09, 2015

So apparently cloud business is a dog that will eventually bite off the hand that feeds it. That’s the opinion of The Register’s Chris Mellor. According to his opinion piece available here, on-premises IT brings tech sales jobs in its wake, while cloud IT kills them....

Telstra | July 09, 2013

Australian operator Telstra has announced plans to outsource 170 jobs from its cloud services division to India. The jobs will be primarily moved from the firm’s profitable and growing Network Applications and Services division, and will affect IT and resource management staff.According to the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), the cuts represent a seven per cent reduction in the workforce and will impact staff in most capital cities. Teresa Davison, spokeswoman for the union, said staff ...

EMC | January 30, 2014

According to an 8K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, EMC approved a restructuring plan that will see the enterprise IT giant shed up to 1,000 employees.The company is shedding jobs as it consolidates and federates various tech and service initiatives under its subsidiaries including VMware and Pivotal.The layoffs will cost the company between $100m and $200m, with a further $95m to $114m in cash payments. The restructuring plan should be completed by the end of the first qua...

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...