by Ron Miller

Dell Technologies goes all in on data centers

When Dell bought EMC, it gave notice it was going all in on the data center, but with a world shifting to the cloud, is that a wise long-term strategy? http://bit.ly/2iPBkZy

Dell Could Be Shopping Some Assets To Help Relieve EMC Deal Debt Load

Since Dell announced its intention to buy EMC for $67 billion, there has been rampant speculation (including by me) about how they would pay down the massive debt accrued to finance the deal. A rumor emerged today they could be looking to sell some existing assets. http://tcrn.ch/1TzzDvq

Dell-EMC Deal Facing Issues On Multiple Fronts

The $67 billion Dell-EMC deal was never going to be easy, but it's suddenly facing issues on multiple fronts. http://tcrn.ch/1Ni3Wpg

Labs And Incubators Fuel Enterprise Innovation

Large organizations have created a decision-making infrastructure that protects the business, but tends to stifle innovation. Sometimes carving out an incubator or lab can deliver the innovation that a large company lacks simply by the nature of the beast. http://tcrn.ch/1I2e69w

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Wall Street-Backed Symphony Wants To Revolutionize Financial Services Communication

Wall Street has thrown its considerable weight behind Symphony, a new communications platform based on open source components that has the potential to transform the way Wall Street firms communicate and share content. http://tcrn.ch/1DIYEOk

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Message Systems Buys Rival Port25 Solutions To Create Email Infrastructure Giant

Message Systems, an email infrastructure provider that helps move 23 percent of the world's legitimate email, bought one of its primary rivals in a stock/cash deal today to create a giant in the market. But they still have SendGrid, a cloud alternative nipping at their heels, and getting bigger might not help that. http://tcrn.ch/1CxFrQH

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MobileIron Wants To Be Your Cloud Content Security Umbrella

MobileIron wants to make it easier for employees to use even unsanctioned cloud storage services by giving IT the ability to set document level security regardless of the service. http://tcrn.ch/16yo4lp 

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DataStax Grabs Aurelius In Graph Database Acqui-Hire

DataStax is the commercial face of the open source Apache Cassandra database. Yesterday it filled in a major hole in its offering when it bought Aurelius, an open source graph database company, along with its 8 person engineering team. http://tcrn.ch/1AnGcuS

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Salesforce Ventures Leads $41M Apttus Investment

You probably haven't heard of Apttus, but they play an important role in the sales cycle. Built on top of Salesforce, they pick up where CRM leaves off with the quote, contract and cash portion of the cycle. Today the company got $41M in funding led by Salesforce Ventures. http://tcrn.ch/1zvBbim

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Investors Throw Datadog A $31M Bone

Datadog helps companies track their infrastructure and software across cloud or hybrid environments, and today, investors threw that dog a juicy $31M bone. http://tcrn.ch/15UF1VZ

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