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Commvault acquires SDS startup for $225 million

Data management firm Commvault made a bold acquisition this week.

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Commvault acquires SDS startup for $225 million

Data management firm Commvault made a bold acquisition this week.

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VMware goes on a shopping spree, scoops up Carbon Black and Pivotal for a combined $4.8B

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Microsoft to drop Skype for Business Online and replace with Teams in 2021

Two years after hinting at plans to phase out Skype for Business Online and replace it with…

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Microsoft Hungary slapped with $8.7M fine

A Microsoft Corp. subsidiary based in Hungary has agreed to pay an $8.7 million fine to resolve the government’s investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) that date back to 2013.

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IBM and Red Hat partners can sleep soundly, executives say after mega deal closes

As IBM closed its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat Tuesday, questions continued to swirl around the impact the move will have on partners and clients, which even IBM’s Arvind Krishna acknowledged was the “real challenge” ever since the deal was announced last October.

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SAP’s largest Business ByDesign engagement inked in Canada

Montreal’s R3D Consulting is implementing ByDesign, and will likely resell it as well

IBM to acquire Toronto-based cloud vendor

Big Blue to acquire Platform Computing to extend reach of technical computing

Larry Ellison gives hook to Marc Benioff at Oracle OpenWorld

Benioff invited people to hear his speech on Wednesday at a San Francisco restaurant

Creative Cloud subscription service launched by Adobe

In a bombastic announcement at Adobe Max in Los Angeles, the company revealed its new strategy for collaboration, Adobe Creative Cloud

SAP boosts partner profits with Build and Sell program

Partners with customized analytic applications based on SAP Business Objects can earn additional revenue reselling it to other SAP partners, who can leverage their vertical expertise

Ellison unveils ‘Exalytics’ in-memory machine

The latest member of Oracle’s family of software-and-hardware systems will target SAP’s HANA platform

JavaOne celebrates the success of enterprise Java

The annual conference schedule also addresses JavaFX and Java support for HTML5

Taking Moneyball tactics to the enterprise

Billy Beane’s success with the Oakland A’s offers a BI analytics lesson to IT execs, analysts say

Sage calming fears about Simply rebranding

The company has been working to reassure partners that the SMB accounting solution will remain a Canadian-made, Canadian-based product line

Windows XP to Windows 8: Don’t go there

With support for XP ending soon, Gartner warns XP enterprises will be cutting it close by waiting for Windows 8

Teradata’s Aster analytic database gets appliance treatment

The platform will be built on top of the same infrastructure as Teradata’s own appliances

Adobe Photoshop Elements 10

In most respects, this is a great consumer-level image editor — but the image organizer should stay on the shelf

Adobe patches Flash bug hackers are already exploiting

XSS bug similar to June flaw that attackers used to snatch Gmail passwords

Oracle’s new SMB database appliance a channel-first play

Designed to fill a gap in the mid-market below the enterprise Exadata solution, the Database Appliance will be a channel play for Oracle

SAP acquires EDI specialist Crossgate

Business-to-Business Networking Provider will strengthen ERP giant’s reach

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