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Avnet Beefs Up IoT Expertise With Planned Witekio Acquisition

by Joseph F. Kovar

Witekio will help Avnet expand its IoT capabilities with developers of software at every layer from the device to the cloud to complement the cloud-based data management technology Avnet received with its Softweb Solutions acquisition.

‘Data Wrangling’ Firm Trifacta Raises $100M In Funding

by Rick Whiting

The financing round brings the data preparation software vendor’s total financing to more than $224 million and will help the company grow sales and marketing efforts.

PCM: VMware’s Kubernetes, Tanzu Strategy Is ‘Incredible’

by Mark Haranas

Solution provider PCM is bullish on VMware’s ‘incredible’ new Kubernetes and container strategy with VMware Tanzu and Project Pacific.

Business Analytics Developer ThoughtSpot Scores $248M In Funding, Nears $2B Valuation

by Rick Whiting

As the business intelligence software arena is hit with a wave of consolidation, ThoughtSpot’s new financing and market valuation puts the company among the business analysis software industry’s top vendors.

Lifeguard On Duty: Startup Okera Offers Tools For Governing Access To Data Lakes

by Rick Whiting

Company debuts new Policy Builder addition to its platform for managing security and governance for petabyte-class data lake systems.

New Naveego Platform Release Emphasizes Self-Service MDM, Data Quality Capabilities

by Rick Whiting

Naveego’s next-generation Data Accuracy Platform makes it possible to develop a “golden record” data set that becomes an organization’s single version of the truth for data analytics and other tasks.

Icahn Acquires 18 Percent Stake In Cloudera, Gains Two Seats On Board Of Directors

by Rick Whiting

As big data platform developer Cloudera continues its search for a new CEO, activist investor Carl Icahn will now have a say in that appointment.

Microsoft Partners Get More Assistance For Windows 7 To Windows 10 Transition

by Kyle Alspach

The company launches FastTrack for Windows 10 guidance, providing experts who can talk through deployment scenarios with partners.

Startup Komprise Joins HPE Complete Program, Offers Data Management Tech For HPE Partners

by Rick Whiting

Komprise also makes key sales and engineering executive hires as company ramps up sales efforts and expands field operations.

Fernando Corbató, Early Operating System Pioneer And Password Inventor, Dies At 93

by Joseph F. Kovar

The first passwords were easily compromised, but Corbató's pioneering time sharing and operating system work led to the LAN, email, file sharing, and other technologies computer users now take for granted, as well as "castrated Multix," a.k.a. UNIX.

IBM Completes $34 Billion Red Hat Acquisition

by Rick Whiting

IBM vows to retain Red Hat's independence and neutrality with Red Hat retaining its current management and Raleigh, N.C., headquarters.

HPE InfoSight Is The Right Tool For The 'Intelligent Era:' Milan Shetti

by Joseph F. Kovar

HPE is building out its InfoSight cloud-based artificial intelligence management tool with new capabilities that will help partners better understand customers’ environments and initiate more intelligent sales conversations.

Antonio Neri: HPE And Mercedes AMG-Petronas Motorsport Formula 1 Share A Culture Of Innovation

by Steven Burke

HPE CEO Antonio Neri says his company’s partnership with Mercedes AMG-Petronas Motorsport Formula 1 has its roots in a shared culture of innovation.

Big Data Software Developer Matillion Raises $35M In Funding, Plans Accelerated Development

by Rick Whiting

Expanded channel operations are also on tap for the supplier of cloud ETL technology as the cloud data warehouse market shifts into high gear.

AI Explosion: How Solution Providers Are Cashing In Big

by Joseph Tsidulko

As artificial intelligence gets built into a wide range of products and market segments, savvy solution providers are rapidly scaling their practices across the stack and creating booming profit centers.