Switzerland's Veeam Software just scooped up half a billion dollars in funding and the cofounder says he's ready to start buying companies

Veeam Software announced Wednesday that it has raised $500 million in funding from Insight Venture Partners. With the additional funding, Veeam is looking at companies to possibly acquire this year, especially in cloud management, data management, artificial intelligence, or machine learning. Veeam is capitalizing on the cloud wars because as more customers shift to the cloud, Veeam can help customers with moving and managing their data. Data management company Veeam Software raised $500 mil...
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ScoutRFP Scores $33M to Compete in Supplier Management Sector

ScoutRFP, whose software is designed to help businesses streamline the process of ordering goods from suppliers, announced that it raised $33 million in a Series C fundraising round led by Scale Venture Partners.San Francisco-based Scout, part of a tech sector dubbed supplier relations management, or SRM, aims to free businesses from painstaking traditional methods of seeking bids from various suppliers and comparing their merits. Some companies are still doing this by laboriously creating spre...
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IBM Vets Launch Sonrai Security, Eyeing Multi-Cloud “Complexity”

Businesses racing faster and faster to put their data and applications into multiple cloud services will soon have to figure out how to keep an eye on it all. Start thinking about the hundreds of users, the dozens of accounts, and the handful of different cloud services that don’t always speak the same language, and the job of monitoring and securing it all quickly gets complicated.This is the problem that Brendan Hannigan and Sandy Bird are attacking with their New York-based company Sonrai Se...
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Amazon's latest cloud product is dangerous for Cisco and Dell but really scary for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, analyst says (AMZN, CSCO, HPE, DELL)

When Amazon Web Services announced a new product called Outposts, the tech world stood up and took notice. They saw Amazon entering into the one cloud-computing market where it had no game: "Hybrid" computing, the segment of the cloud where Microsoft dominates. But a new report by UBS analyst John Roy points out that the true disruption of Outposts is this: Amazon will be putting its own home-grown data-center hardware — originally designed for its own use — into customers' private data center...
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Amazon's latest cloud product is dangerous for Cisco and Dell, but really scary for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, analyst says (AMZN, CSCO, HPE, DELL)

When Amazon Web Services announced a new product called Outposts, the tech world stood up and took notice. They saw Amazon entering into the one cloud computing market where it had no game: "Hybrid" computing, the segment of the cloud where Microsoft dominates. But a new report by UBS analyst John Roy points out that the true disruption of Outposts is this: Amazon will be putting its own home-grown data center hardware — originally designed for its own use — into customers' private data center...
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Dell jumps in its return to the public market (DELL)

Dell jumped as much as 3.88% to $46 Friday as it returned to the public market. Dell reentered the public markets without going through the usual initial-public-offering process because it bought back shares tied to its interest in the software maker VMware. The acquisition faced strong opposition from billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, who was VMware's second-largest shareholder.  For Dell, buying back DVMT was actually something of a Plan B. Originally, the company was floating the i...
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Dell debuts at $46 in return to market

Dell Technologies Inc's Class C shares opened at $46 in their return to public markets on Friday, after the company bought back shares tied to its interest in software maker VMware earlier in the month.
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Samsung Remote Access allows users to control connected devices through its Smart TVs

Samsung Electronics has announced Remote Access which is a new feature that will be available on its Smart TV lineups starting 2019. The Remote Access feature will provide wireless connectivity with PCs, tablets, and smartphones allowing consumers to remotely control compatible programs and apps through their Samsung Smart TV. With Remote Access, input devices, including keyboards, can be connected to a Samsung Smart TV, making it easier for users to control their on-screen content. This elim...
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How To Install VMware Workstation Player on CentOS 7

VMware Workstation Player is a mature and stable virtualization solution that allows you to run multiple, isolated operating systems on a single machine. You cab create your own virtual machines and evaluate software distributed as a virtual appliance from many software vendors available from VMware’s Solution Exchange.
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Joy to the vendors, HCI's day has come. And converged ... becomes less... of a thing – IDC

Dell tech (EMC and VMware) utterly dominate with Nutanix following HPE, Cisco and NetApp are grabbing at the tail end of a fast-growing converged/hyper-converged market that is utterly dominated by Dell's EMC and VMware businesses and HCI specialist Nutanix.…
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These 10 enterprise M&A deals totaled over $87 billion this year

M&A activity was brisk in the enterprise market this year, with 10 high-profile deals totaling almost $88 billion. Companies were opening up their wallets and pouring money into mega acquisitions. It’s worth noting that the $88 billion figure doesn’t include Dell paying investors more than $23 billion for VMware tracking stock to take the company public again or several other deals of over a billion dollars that didn’t make our list. Last year’s big deals included Intel buying MobileEye for $15 ...
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These ten enterprise M&A deals totaled over $87 billion this year

M&A activity was brisk in the enterprise market this year with 10 high-profile deals totaling almost $88 billion. Companies were opening up their wallets and pouring money into mega acquisitions. It’s worth noting that the $88 billion figure doesn’t include Dell paying investors over $23 billion for VMware tracking stock to take the company public again or several other deals of over a billion dollars that didn’t make our list. Last year’s big deals included Intel buying MobileEye for $15 billio...
Tags: Google, Fundings & Exits, TC, Enterprise, Microsoft, CA, Tech, Cisco, Intel, ERP, Vista, M&a, Ibm, Mergers and Acquisitions, Michigan, Dell

Cloudify grabs $7 mln

Israel-based Cloudify, a cloud management and orchestration company, has secured $7 million in financing. The investors included KPN Ventures, CreditEase Israel Innovation Fund, Claridge Israel, BRM Group and VMware. Source: Press Release
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The co-founder of $725 million cloud startup Mesosphere is stepping aside as CEO to make way for a Symantec veteran

Mesosphere, most recently valued at $725 million in a funding round this year, is getting a new CEO. Founder Florian Leibert is stepping aside to make way for Mike Fey, most recently COO of Symantec. Leibert had previously announced his intention to find his own replacement. Fey sees a lot of opportunity in bringing Mesosphere's software to larger customers, to help them manage their server and cloud infrastructure.  Fey says he was first intrigued by Mesosphere's all-star roster of investors,...
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Dell Public; 3 Keys to Intuition; Park Square Doubles; Instead of Bonuses; Jan 23 Scaling Up

"...insights for scaleups" HEADLINES: Scaling Up Master Class -- our latest coached online class just sold out, so we're launching another Jan 23. More details below, but first... Dell Public Dec. 28 -- a year later than his ten-year plan, Michael Dell and his firm Dell Technologies will be back public the end of this year, via a stock swap with VMWare shareholders (so not an IPO). This CRN article details "5 Things You Need to Know" about Dell going back public. With...
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The cofounder of a $1.9 billion design startup explains why his company is 'training' for an IPO that may never happen

On Tuesday, design platform InVision announced it has raised $115 million in series F funding.  This year, the seven-year-old company will cross $100 million in annual recurring revenue, and CEO Clark Valberg says the secret is that the product has spread through the word of mouth in the design community. InVision has no plans to go public as of now, but Valberg wants the company to work to become fit enough for larger markets. "I think of IPO readiness as a business fitness, even if we neve...
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Dell gets shareholder approval for VMware deal

Dell Technologies Inc said on Tuesday it has received shareholder approval for its earlier announced deal to buy back shares tied to its interest in software maker VMware , paving the way for it to return to the market.
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Dell’s long game is in hybrid and private clouds

When Dell voted to buy back the VMware tracking stock and go public again this morning, you had to be wondering what exactly the strategy was behind these moves. While it’s clearly about gaining financial flexibility, the $67 billion EMC deal has always been about setting the company up for a hybrid and private cloud future. The hybrid cloud involves managing workloads on premises and in the cloud, while private clouds are ones that companies run themselves, either in their own data centers o...
Tags: Amazon, TC, Cloud, Enterprise, Tech, Michael Dell, Aws, Dell, Sap, EMC, Virtustream, Vmware, Private Cloud, Pivotal, Dell-emc Deal, Andy Jassy

Dell votes in favor of going public again

Dell announced Tuesday that it has agreed to buy back the publicly traded "tracking" shares of VMware, a listed company that is about 80% owned by Dell.  The company confirmed the purchase price of $120 per share of the tracking shares for a total of $23.9 billion. After the deal is completed, Dell will go public again without having to go through the usual initial-public-offering process and will trade on the New York Stock Exchange starting on December 28. The acquisition has faced strong op...
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Dell Sets Return to Public Market With Shareholder OK of VMware Deal

Austin—Dell Technologies is on its way to becoming a public company again. Shareholders of a stock that’s linked to Dell subsidiary VMware approved a plan for Dell to buy out the stock, allowing it to return to the public market.Dell, based in Round Rock, TX, announced Tuesday that 61 percent of the shareholders of the so-called “tracking stock” voted in favor the deal. (About 89 percent of shareholders voted.) The stock, traded as DMVT, was issued when Dell acquired storage giant EMC in 2016 f...
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Dell votes to buy back VMware tracking stock and go public again

Dell just announced that it has agreed to buy back the VMware tracking stock from the EMC acquisition. The company confirmed the buy-back price of $120 per share for a total of $23.9 billion. With today’s move, Dell will return to being publicly traded. Sixty-one percent of shareholders voted in favor of the deal. It’s unclear how Wall Street will deal with the $50 billion debt load the company is carrying as a result of that $67 billion EMC acquisition from two years ago, but chairman and CE...
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Dell votes to buy back VMware tracking stock and will likely go public

Dell just announced that it has agreed to buy back the VMware tracking stock from the EMC acquisition. The company confirmed the buy-back price of $23.9 billion. With today’s move, the company will likely go public. Sixty-one percent of shareholders voted in favor of the deal. It’s unclear how Wall Street will deal with the $50 billion debt load the company is carrying as a result of that $67 billion EMC acquisition from two years ago if the company does go public. Part of the EMC deal was a pay...
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VMware's newest Amazon partnership proves that the $65 billion company can thrive in the cloud wars after all, says Wall Street (AMZN, VMW)

VMware is showing steady growth with a 14% year-over-year revenue growth this past quarter, driven by its revitalized cloud strategy — an area in which it had historically been seen to be weak. Analysts laud a recent partnership with Amazon Web Services, the leader in cloud computing, as being a sure sign that VMware is on the right track.  The concern was that the cloud would hurt VMware's traditional business, which has always been in the data center. But the trend towards so-called hybrid...
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Some big-money investors are turning their backs on Apple, RBC says (AAPL)

Big-money investors are paring their holdings in Apple shares, according to a new report from RBC Capital Markets. The stock is no longer one of the top overweight holdings in Russell 1000 value benchmark funds. This may signal a shift in long-only investors' interests, the report says. Watch Apple trade live here. Big funds that once bet heavily on Apple have taken a step back. Apple was no longer a top overweight holding in Russell 1000 value benchmark funds as of this year's third quarter...
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Employers are searching high and low for people with Google Cloud skills, says new report (MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, GOOGL)

Searches for roles related to cloud computing and employer interest in "cloud engineers" has been quickly rising, according to a new report from Indeed. Regular software engineering positions are also starting to list "cloud" as a required skill. The report also shows that employers are looking for candidates who are proficient in using Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.  Google Cloud is the skill that's seeing the fastest-growing demand.  If you're looking to take your...
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Data-analysis startup Looker just landed $103 million in funding and a $1.6 billion valuation after hitting a $100 million revenue run rate

Looker, a business-intelligence startup based in Santa Cruz, California, just raised $103 million in a Series E funding round. Looker is now at unicorn status with a valuation of $1.6 billion, according to a person familiar with the company. It's raised $280.5 million in total since it was founded in 2012. According to Looker CEO Frank Bien, the key to being able to attract investors is strong customer satisfaction. A Santa Cruz, California-based startup just became tech's newest unicorn. The...
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Data-analysis startup Looker thanks its happy customers for its ability to raise $103 million at a $1.6 billion valuation

Looker, a business intelligence startup based in Santa Cruz, California, just raised $103 million in a series E funding round.  Looker is now at unicorn status with a valuation of $1.6 billion, according to a person familiar with the company, with $280.5 million raised in total since it was founded in 2013.  According to Looker CEO Frank Bien, the key to being able to attract investors was strong customer satisfaction. A Santa Cruz, California-based startup just became tech's newest unicorn....
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'Low code' and 'no code' products is the hottest trend in enterprise startups

At Amazon's annual cloud conference, AWS re:Invent, Business Insider sat down with Ed Sim, founder and managing partner of Boldstart Ventures, to talk about the hottest trends in enterprise startups. Boldstart Ventures often writes the first check to early enterprise startups, and it was the first to invest in Greenplum, which became part of Pivotal Software. Sim says that there's massive opportunity in "low code, no code," security and serverless applications. The next big trend in startu...
Tags: Amazon, Microsoft, Trends, SIM, Netflix, Amazon Web Services, Paul Biggar, Vmware, Aurora, Gremlin, BoldStart Ventures, Observability, Greenplum, Ed Sim, Boldstart, Timestream

This investor writes the first check to seed startups and he says 'low code, no code' is the next big thing in enterprise startups

At Amazon's annual cloud conference, AWS re:Invent, Business Insider sat down with Ed Sim, founder and managing partner of Boldstart Ventures, to talk about the hottest trends in enterprise startups. Boldstart Ventures often writes the first check to early enterprise startups, and it was the first to invest in Greenplum, which became part of Pivotal Software. Sim says that there's massive opportunity in "low code, no code," security and serverless applications. The next big trend in startu...
Tags: Amazon, Microsoft, Trends, SIM, Netflix, Amazon Web Services, Paul Biggar, Vmware, Aurora, Gremlin, BoldStart Ventures, Observability, Greenplum, Ed Sim, Boldstart, Timestream

Wall Street says Amazon and VMware are teaming up to take down Microsoft in the cloud wars (AMZN, MSFT)

Amazon's cloud business, Amazon Web Services, has to keep a check on Microsoft in the cloud wars, analysts say, and this is apparent from AWS's recent announcements at its annual conference, AWS re:Invent. Amazon partnered with VMware to launch AWS Outposts, a sign that Amazon is now embracing hybrid cloud -- something it hadn't focused on before. AWS is also launching an assortment of new artificial intelligence technologies, which will help Amazon keep its place above Amazon. The race betwee...
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