August 26, 2019
Why now is the time to get ready for quantum computing
For the longest time, even while scientists were working to make it a reality, quantum computing seemed like science fiction. It’s hard enough to make any sense out…
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August 26, 2019
VMware is bringing VMs and containers together, taking advantage of Heptio acquisition
At VMworld today in San Francisco, VMware introduced a new set of services for managing virtual machines and containers in a single view. Called Tanzu, the product takes…
Read articleAugust 23, 2019
How Pivotal got bailed out by fellow Dell family member, VMware
When Dell acquired EMC in 2016 for $67 billion, it created a complicated consortium of interconnected organizations. Some, like VMware and Pivotal, operate as completely separate companies. They…
Read articleAugust 7, 2019
Rookout lands $8M Series A to expand debugging platform
Rookout, a startup that provides debugging across a variety of environments, including serverless and containers, announced an $8 million Series A investment today. It plans to use the…
Read articleAugust 7, 2019
CircleCI brings its continuous integration to Microsoft programmers for first time
CircleCI has been supporting continuous integration for Linux and Mac programmers for some time, but up until today, Microsoft developers have been left on the outside looking in.…
Read articleAugust 6, 2019
Apple subsidiary FileMaker Inc. changes its name (back) to Claris
Remember Claris, the 1987 Apple spin-off that made applications like MacWrite, MacPaint and FileMaker? In 1998, Apple brought all of those products in-house again, with the exception of…
Read articleAugust 5, 2019
Mesosphere changes name to D2IQ, shifts focus to Kubernetes, cloud native
Mesosphere was born as the commercial face of the open-source Mesos project. It was surely a clever solution to make virtual machines run much more efficiently, but times…
Read articleAugust 1, 2019
With the acquisition closed, IBM goes all in on Red Hat
IBM’s massive $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat closed a few weeks ago and today, the two companies are now announcing the first fruits of this process. For…
Read articleJuly 30, 2019
The dreaded 10x, or, how to handle exceptional employees
The “10x engineer.” Shudder. Wince. I have rarely seen my Twitter feed unite against an idea so loudly, or in such harmony. I refer of course to the…
Read articleJuly 29, 2019
Dark emerges from stealth with unique ‘deployless’ software model
Dark has been keeping its startup in the dark for the last couple of years while it has built a unique kind of platform it calls “deployless” software…
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