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Akamai, Juniper Said to Be Contending for Israeli Start-Up Cotendo

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on November 28, 2011 at 5:57 am PT

If the reports of a deal are true, it would be the biggest exit for an Israeli start-up in a decade. And it wouldn’t be so bad for a bunch of U.S.-based venture capital firms, either.

Say, When Did Apple Become an Enterprise Company?

Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 19, 2011 at 6:45 am PT

When Tim Cook rattles off a list of iPhone- and iPad-using companies, it says a lot about how far Apple has come without having a formal enterprise strategy.

VMware CEO Paul Maritz Talks About the Cloud Monster, Microsoft and More! (Video)

Kara Swisher in Enterprise on July 13, 2011 at 10:31 am PT

VMware CEO Paul Maritz has his hands full trying to keep the lead in the hyper-competitive virtualization space, as more and more businesses move into the cloud. He talks about the complexities and the competition with companies like Microsoft, where — irony alert — he was a former top exec and is often mentioned as the best candidate to be its next CEO.

Gathering Storm: As VMware “Monsters” Up, Citrix Buys Cloud.com

Kara Swisher in Enterprise on July 12, 2011 at 10:03 am PT

At a live event in San Francisco today, virtualization giant VMware unveiled what it called a “monster” of a cloud infrastructure suite, even as rival Citrix forked over more than $200 million for Silicon Valley’s Cloud.com. The competition in the space is certainly heating up as several rivals compete to become the key provider of technology and management in the cloud, as companies increasingly move their business operations there.

Peter Levine, Veritas Veteran and Data Center Guru, Joins Andreessen-Horowitz

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 21, 2011 at 12:32 pm PT

Levine is joining AH as general partner, and brings expertise and connections to deals it would otherwise miss. Case in point: AH has invested in a stealth startup called Bromium.

Rackspace Turns Anso Labs Into a Cloud Services Business Unit

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 8, 2011 at 4:15 pm PT

Want to build a private cloud? Like OpenStack? Rackspace has a new business unit aimed at helping you.

51 Percent of CIOs Planning Tablet Deployments in 2011

John Paczkowski in News on February 15, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Company-subsidized tablets may outnumber their employee-owned counterparts sooner than expected.

Exclusive: Rackspace to Acquire Anso Labs

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 9, 2011 at 4:05 pm PT

Rackspace acquires a team best known for its work building a computing cloud for NASA.

Is it Wyse to Make Your Best-Selling iPad App Free?

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 16, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Wyse has had a best-seller in the App Store with a program that lets people access their PC from an iPhone or IPad. But now the company plans to start giving away the program. CEO Tarkan Maner explains the thinking in an interview with Mobilized’s Ina Fried.

My Bing-a-Ling

John Paczkowski in News on May 26, 2009 at 11:51 am PT

What’s in a name? Apparently, the answer to Microsoft’s many search problems. As we previously reported, the software behemoth plans to debut its new search service at our D: All Things Digital conference later this week, and when it does it may have a new name. Reports claim that Microsoft Live Search, once known as Windows Live Search, and prior to that as MSN Search, will henceforth be known as… Bing.