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VMware | November 12, 2013

Pivotal, the ambitious big data venture led by former VMware CEO Paul Maritz, has finally pulled back the curtain on Pivotal One, a platform for building data-intensive cloud applications. Key elements include Pivotal CF, Pivotal's distribution of the Cloud Foundry PaaS, and Pivotal HD, the company's distribution of Apache Hadoop. Among its selling points: It makes deployment and management of Hadoop -- normally a pain -- a snap. That's one of the ways Pivotal could stack up against the rest of ...

| July 08, 2013

Swedish cloud-based TV operator Magine announced that it has closed a $19m Series A financing round from Swedish and international investors, which will help the company expand its recently launched service globally.Magine launched its over-the-top (OTT) TV service is Sweden back in March this year and is unique to the extent that the company has opted to gain carriage of full linear channels rather than sign deals with studios and content providers for individual shows or packages of content, a...

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 “...