Softbank Group Corp.-backed Cohesity Inc. today boldly announced its intent to acquire the Veritas Technologies LLC‘s data protection business for $3 billion. The purchase will be funded one-third with equity, and the other two-thirds will be debt-financed through Haveli Investments, Premji Invest and Madrona Venture Group.
The partnership between Hitachi Ltd. and Cisco Systems Inc. goes back a couple of decades. Last year, the two firms announced a strategic partnership agreement. Yesterday they deepened the deal to include a new hybrid cloud services suite focusing on enterprise data management.
A new report from Tangoe sheds light on FinOps implementations, artificial intelligence, and how to improve cloud costs and financial predictability. Cloud has taken every industry by storm. But the report shows that, despite the apparent benefits, “a variety of challenges still get in their way, mostly around cost control, security expertise, and a skills gap.” Furthermore, the ongoing “cloud sprawl” has not helped these issues.
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent is in the books, and if there was any question about whether the show is back, there shouldn’t be. Two years ago, participation was capped as we emerged from the pandemic. Last year, some businesses still had not fully embraced travel and trade shows, and that kept the show from achieving the level of audience it has had in the past.
Australia is surrounded by water, so swimming is as much a part of the culture as throwing another shrimp on the barbie, but for Swimming Australia, it’s more than recreation. It’s about performance and gleaning as much from data as it can.