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Google Cloud to Add Support for VMware Workloads to Attract More Enterprise Customers

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Google has just announced that it has joined its hands with the software company, VMware, to expand its cloud services. This way, Google will be able to court the enterprise users of VMware who will be able to run their workloads over Google Cloud.

Through the partnership, the two companies are planning to start a new hybrid cloud service called Google Cloud VMware Solution (developed by CloudSimple). The service will let the VMware enterprise customers use the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to run their vSphere-based workloads. The partnership will make Google provide its support for the VMware Cloud Foundation. The VMware Cloud Foundation is mainly responsible for deploying and running hybrid clouds.

VMware has got a long list of enterprise customers, and it would be great for Google if it bags them for its hybrid cloud service. Though Google is a long-time rival for VMware and many of the enterprises won’t be moving to GCP, there are many who themselves had requested Google to provide support for VMware cloud over its cloud service. Migrating the VMware workloads to a VMware software-defined data centre (SDCC) running in GCP, will render the organisations to have full, native access to the complete VMware services, i.e. vCenter, vSAN and NSX-T.

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“Customers have asked us to provide broad support for VMware, and now with Google Cloud VMware Solution by CloudSimple, our customers will be able to run VMware vSphere-based workloads in GCP. This brings customers a wide breadth of choices for how to run their VMware workloads in a hybrid deployment, from modern containerized applications with Anthos to VM-based applications with VMware in GCP.” said Google in the announcement.

Google is moving forward towards internet-based computing and storage, and it is estimated that the company may raise its cloud business to $8 billion this year. The partnership is also going to add up some more to the annual revenue of the company. Where its rival companies like Alphabet Inc. has already been in such deals, Google has just started on this way.

“Our partnership with Google Cloud has always been about addressing customers’ needs, and we’re excited to extend the partnership to enable our mutual customers to run VMware workloads on VMware Cloud Foundation in Google Cloud Platform. With VMware on GCP, customers will be able to leverage all of the familiarity and investment protection of VMware tools and training as they execute on their cloud strategies, and rapidly bring new services to market and operate them seamlessly and more securely across a hybrid cloud environment.” VMware’s Sanjay Poonen said in a statement.

VMware is not new to such partnerships and has recently partnered with Microsoft and formed the Azure VMware Solutions, which is again developed by CloudSimple. In 2016, the company had also joined its hands with Amazon in order to integrate the cloud services from both the companies altogether.

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Red Hat is Finally IBM’s Subsidiary After Closing the World’s Second Biggest IT Deal

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The much-rumoured deal has finally come to a conclusion, as IBM has finally acquired Red Hat for a sum of $34 billion. The rumours of the acquisition had been making rounds for the past couple of months, and now, with Red Hat, IBM will be moving forward to extend its expertise in cloud computing. The company paid $190 a share for all the Red Hat’s issued and outstanding shares in cash, completely overtaking all the operations of the company.

Since the past few years, the cloud has become the biggest thing, and IBM has been trying its hands in the field but had been falling against other cloud service providers like Amazon and Microsoft. Through the deal with Red Hat, the company will be now working as one of the partners in both Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure. Together the companies will be experimenting on the hybrid cloud computing.

As the name suggests, the hybrid cloud technology will allow the companies to run their programs over their own servers as well as on the public servers, simultaneously. In this case, AWS and Azure will be the public clouds, and IBM will be closely working with its rivals.

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On the acquisition of Red Hat Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO, said, “This is about hybrid cloud. It is the future, it is the destination of the cloud. This market is a trillion dollars. It’s emerging, and it’s very interesting to me that since our announcement, now you hear everybody else talking about it too.”

This agreement between IBM and Red Hat not only will make the rival companies work together, but the deal is the one largest tech acquisitions of all time.

The company revealed its interest in buying the Red Hat last October and obtained the stamp of approval from the U.S. Department of Justice in May this year. And, finally, after getting the unconditional approval from the EU, IBM purchased the company.

The acquisition of Red Hat is a positive sign for IBM moving towards stabilization, as it has been facing some much losses for the past six years. And with taking over the company, and its work in cloud computing, there are high chances for IBM to get through the losses it has faced in the past.

According to IBM, Jim Whitehurst, CEO Red Hat, will continue to head the company and will be joining the senior management of IBM. Whitehurst will be working under IBM CEO Rometty and will directly report her. Despite the acquisition, the company will be operating independently.

“We think open source has become the de-facto standard in technology because it enables these solutions. Joining forces with IBM gives the company the opportunity to bring more open source innovation to an even broader range of organizations,” said Jim Whitehurst, “You’ve heard me say this before, but it bears repeating, Red Hat is still Red Hat. IBM is committed to preserving Red Hat’s independence, neutrality, culture and industry partnerships”, he added.

Microsoft and Oracle Partners to Interconnect their Cloud Services

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Microsoft is up to something big, and that has become quite obvious, as it has been getting into collaboration with its enterprise peers for quite some time now. Recently it joined hands with Sony, and before that, it had partnered with companies like Adobe and SAP for different projects. And now, Microsoft will be getting together with the biggest database company Oracle to share their cloud services with each other.

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The two companies announced today that they have reached an agreement, where they will connect their clouds such that the users will be able to use both the services to migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. This way, both the companies will be able to share data, and the load with each other, seamlessly.

The alliance between the two companies is not a mere that matter of connecting both the clouds, but will provide a variety of useful facilities to both companies as well as its users. With the partnership, Microsoft can better focus on carrying out the workloads, and Oracle will be able to emerge as a dominant player in the cloud computing industry, as it has not been able to make a mark like its rivals Amazon, Google and Microsoft, have.

With this partnership between Microsoft and Oracle, the Oracle users will be able to run its applications, including JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Oracle Retail and Hyperion on Azure. The users will also be able to run the different Oracle database such as RAC and Exadata on the Azure cloud.

“With this alliance, our joint customers can migrate their entire set of existing applications to the cloud without having to re-architect anything, preserving the large investments they have already made,” the executive vice president of Oracle’s cloud infrastructure unit, Don Johnson, said in a statement.

The service has been made available in Azure US East and Oracle’s Ashburn data centre, starting from today. And, the companies plan to expand it to other regions as well.

Dell Wants to Bring Automated and Efficient Cloud Infrastructure

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Dell, one of the biggest computer maker company, which started its journey 35 years ago by selling PCs directly to the consumer is now planning to expand its cloud infrastructure to make it more intelligent, automated and efficient.

At the Dell Technologies World 2019 held in Las Vegas, Michael Dell the founder, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, revealed about the new Dell Technologies Cloud offering, that will be a combined project of Dell, Azure, Microsoft and VMWare. All those companies have partnered with each other to accelerate the digital transformation for their customers and bring a hybrid cloud solution to them. All the three will be combining their data centres, workplace solutions and cloud technologies to attain the very objective.

“Every business, every organisation, every government, and every healthcare organisation needs to re-imagine itself in this digital age. There are an explosion and tsunami of data that is sweeping us into the digital age. Data is our greatest asset and most important resource. Turning that data into action and progress and outcomes and success is the heart of digital transformation,” said Dell.

According to the company, other companies own their separate clouds, and it becomes tough for them to set up a multi-cloud strategy. So to simplify such complex tasks Dell is planning to bring a hybrid cloud solution, that will also render easy to handle interface. Dell’s cloud approach revolves around VMWare and targets to connect with public cloud service providers like AWS.

“For many organisations, the increasingly diverse cloud landscape is resulting in an enormous amount of IT complexity, and no one is more qualified or capable to help customers solve this challenge than Dell Technologies,” said Jeff Clarke, the vice chairman of products and operations at Dell.

Drew Houston : The Co-founder & the CEO of Dropbox

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Drew Houston is an American Internet billionaire entrepreneur, who co-founded the multi-billion company Dropbox at the mere age of 24. Once just an idea, now has more than 500 worldwide users subscribed to it. Houston a computer enthusiast, gives the credit of his success to his partner and co-founder of Dropbox, Arash Ferdowsi, and the education he received at MIT. In one of his speeches at MIT, he said that people should surround themselves with inspiring people. He said, “Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.”

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Early Life

Houston was born on 4 March 1983, in Acton, Massachusetts. His father was an electrical engineer. Houston was a student at the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School. Initially, he was influenced by video games and had decided that he would become a video game tester. But as soon his father introduced him with programming, his focus diverted towards the computers. At the age of 14, while playing a video game, on his father’s Pcjr computer, he found a bug in the game and reported to the video game company, upon which he was offered a job at the same company. In 1990, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from where he earned a graduate degree in Computer Science.

Career & Founding Dropbox

Along with an offer for a job at the early age of 14, he had also been a part of many startups including Bit9, Accolade and Hubspot. Houston was still in college when he thought of developing Dropbox. He wrote the first line of code for Dropbox, while he was travelling on a bus, as he had forgotten his USB drive. At the time he was frustrated with his habit of forgetting and losing those USB flash drives all the time. So he conceived the idea of creating a cloud-based system for keeping the files in it. At first, he started working on the project for his personal use, but then he realised that the product could benefit other people too.

Houston released a video regarding the idea, his college mate Arash Ferdowsi being one of the viewers of it. Ferdowsi was really impressed by the idea and contacted Houston for partnership. From here the two started working on the project together.

In May 2007, Houston founded the parent company to Dropbox, Evenflow, Inc. In the same year, the company was able to get a seed funding from venture capitalists like Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Y Combinator. In 2008, the company launched Dropbox at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. Within one year, Dropbox had more than 3 million registered users. By 2011, the number of users reached 50 million, and in March 2016, it had 500 million users.

During the evolution of the company, it also went through some successful acquisitions including TapEngage, Audiogalaxy, Snapjoy in 2012, Bubbli in 2014, CloudOn in 2015, etc. In 2011, the total revenue earned by the company was over $240 million. Dropbox is considered as one of the twenty best startups of Silicon Valley.

In February 2018, Dropbox filed an IPO to be listed on the Nasdaq.

Personal Life

Houston is a huge video game lover. He also likes to sing, and during the college, he was a part of ’90s cover band. Business Week named Houston as one of the most promising players aged 30 and under. He was also named among the top 30 under-30 entrepreneurs by inc.com.

IBM to Acquire Red Hat to Become World’s Number One Hybrid Cloud Provider

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IBM, on Sunday, has announced that it is planning to acquire the American’s multinational open-source software development company, the Red Hat, to create the leading hybrid/multi-cloud provider. The Red Hat is the publicly traded company that has a market cap of $20.5 billion, with 176 million its shares are outstanding.

Noticeably, Red Hat is the software provider for the largest tech giants including Google, Amazon and Microsoft. That means after, IBM and Red Hat join their hands, IBM will automatically be delivering services to its rival companies.

The changing technology within the past few years has brought many changes the users used the technology. And, in no time the user’s data was moved from the hard disk of their desktops to the clouds. The Dropbox, Netflix, Flickr, Google Drive, Microsoft Office 365, Yahoo Mail are all cloud services and are the most used applications by the users. The only difficulty in using those cloud services is the moving of the data between those applications. But the deal between IBM and Red Hat will be a hybrid cloud arrangement, that will focus on solving the issue, as they together will provide the facility to move the data between various cloud services.

Ginni Rometty, IBM’s chairman, president and chief executive said, “The acquisition of Red Hat is a game-changer, It changes everything about the cloud market.” The companies have called the deal, but IBM has to get approval from the other shareholders too, for that it has scheduled a conference call with investors on Monday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.

The deal will be closed by paying Red Hat $190 a share in cash, with an enterprise value of about $34 billion. The deal will accelerate the IBM’s high business model and will make it world’s number one hybrid cloud provider. Red Hat will still retain its open-source legacy and operate as a distinct unit. The deal is expected to close by the end of the half of 2019.