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Thursday, July 12th, 2018
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Event |
| 4:32p |
Broadcom Tanks After $18.9 Billion CA Purchase Puzzles Market
Chipmaker Broadcom announced an agreement to acquire enterprise IT software giant CA Technologies for $18.9 billion
• There's no obvious connection between the two companies' businesses, which puzzled investors and analysts, who now question whether Broadcom's CEO Hock Tan, generally loved by Wall Street for his ability to make successful acquisitions, can make the CA deal a success, Bloomberg reported
• As a result, Broadcom's shares suffered their biggest drop ever Thursday, falling 19 percent | | 6:21p |
Digging Deep for Data Center Optimization
Going underground is not the complete solution, but when done properly, it enables a world of possibilities to enhance operational efficiencies. | | 7:29p |
VMware Cloud CTO: Launching VMware on AWS Has Been a Heavy Lift
Integrating VMware with Amazon’s cloud infrastructure has been a big job for engineering teams on both sides of the partnership
• Both have had to make major changes to their architectures and create new operational processes, VMware’s cloud CTO Kit Colbert told Data Center Knowledge
• For that reason, the full impact of the partnership between the world’s biggest cloud provider and the biggest data center software company will take some time to unfold
• For the same reason, it will be a while before VMware strikes similar deals with other cloud providers, such as Microsoft, Google, and IBM |
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