7 Biggest Stories of the Week, March 2-6
Well, hello, Friday. So nice to see you again! You were missed. What's that? You say you need something to help you kick off the weekend? Perhaps our seven biggest stories for the week ending March 6 will do the trick.
March 6, 2015
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Well, hello, Friday. So nice to see you again! You were missed. What’s that? You say you need something to help you kick off the weekend? Perhaps our seven biggest stories for the week ending March 6 will do the trick.
As the dust settles around the news that Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) is acquiring Aruba Networks (ARUN), Aruba President and CEO Dominic Orr used his trademark sense of humor to compare the acquisition to the “Happy Meal” experience. “Wireless is the burger and wired is the fries,” he said during his keynote address at Aruba Atmosphere partner conference. “We have to have some sort of partnership to deliver a ‘Happy Meal experience.’ HP is the Happy Meal deliverer.”
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Cloud storage provider Box (BOX), fresh off its wildly successful $175 million IPO, has acquired Subspace, a seven-person Berkeley, CA startup specializing in BYOD security for mobile devices in corporate settings.
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IT security vendor Kaspersky Lab kicked off its annual North American Partner Conference with details on the company’s enhanced partner program for U.S. and Canadian resellers.
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Designing secure, reliable and user-friendly networking APIs for containerized apps is one of the newest challenges in the software-defined networking (SDN) world—which is the reason Docker Inc., the company behind the open source containerized virtualization platform, acquired SocketPlane this week.
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Red Hat (RHT) entered the cloud consultation and support services market in a major way this week with the launch of its Cloud Innovation Practice, which introduces cloud setup and architecting solutions that go far beyond those provided with the open source giant’s software products.
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Cloud cybersecurity provider Veracode quietly has filed IPO documents with the SEC and will formally submit public S-1 materials soon, according to a Fortune Term Sheet report.
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Logicalis US has appointed Jim Cook as vice president of Services Sales, responsible for heading the company’s U.S. services sales division and growing Logicalis’ services sales presence among key customer segments including healthcare customers, software providers and midmarket companies.
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Cloud-focused IT vendors and distributors now can apply for formal accreditation through Cloud Trustmark +, CompTIA’s latest certification to identify best-of-breed companies and make them more visible to channel partners looking to sell cloud services.