Tuesday, January 30th, 2018

Time	Event
12:15a	VMware Plunges on Report It May Acquire Dell in Reverse Merger (FB) VMware's stock plunged after CNBC reported that it’s considering acquiring Dell Technologies in a reverse merger, bringing Dell back to public markets in what could be the industry’s biggest deal ever. VMware, which was absorbed by Dell in its $67 billion acquisition of EMC Corp., could now turn around and buy Dell, CNBC reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. In a reverse merger, VMware would issue shares to Dell’s private owners, which could then sell the stock on the public market, giving them a way to profit from having taken Dell private in 2013 and to help pay off some of its $50 billion in debt, CNBC said. (Comment on this)
12:19a	Apstra’s Intent-Based Networking OS for Data Centers Gets Smarter (FB) Apstra, one of the pioneers behind the emerging intent-based networking trend, is making it easier for data center operators to manage their networks by adding analytics to its flagship software. The intent-based analytics feature is fully automated and allows network administrators to quickly and easily configure the analytics through a simple interface. Intent-based analytics is a critical feature for intent-based networking to work. (Comment on this)
1:00p	Is Primary Data About to Pull a $100M Disappearing Act? Primary Data, which received $40 million in funding and credit only five months ago, appears to have shuttered its doors, but nobody is talking and rumors abound. (Comment on this)
6:42p	Navigating Wholesale Shifts DCK Investor Edge: Vantage Data Centers CEO Sureel Choksi on market trends and the company’s strategy (Comment on this)
11:35p	In a Big Kubernetes Play, Red Hat Gobbles Up CoreOS for $250M Gains stable of Kubernetes experts, container technologies, influence in upstream Kubernetes community (Comment on this)

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