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GitHub Buys Semmle To Improve Open-Source Code Security

by Dylan Martin

GitHub CEO Nat Friedman calls the acquisition of Semmle, a startup that helps developers analyze code for vulnerabilities, a ‘big step in securing the open-source supply chain.’

Oracle Cloud To Open A New Data Center Region Every 23 Days

by Mark Haranas

In a massive data center expansion move, Oracle is planning to launch 20 new facilities over the next 15 months as it looks to better compete with hyper-scale cloud providers Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

Pure Storage Embraces Multi-Cloud With New AWS, Azure Offerings

by Joseph F. Kovar

The company's Cloud Block Store for AWS, which allows its FlashArray Purity storage operating to run in the cloud to provide common storage management across on-premises and cloud environments, is now available.

EVP Jason Zander On Microsoft Azure ‘Mega-Deals' And Tier-1 Workloads

by Donna Goodison

'When you see those very large deals, you're seeing us also integrate and supply technology and partner very deeply with that,' Microsoft Azure EVP Jason Zander says. 'You need that kind of structural advantage of the cloud and the edge.'

The 5 Best-Selling Notebook Brands Of Q2 2019

by Kyle Alspach

HP and Lenovo continued to lead the pack in terms of sales through technology distributors, according to The NPD Group.

Red River Acquires Fellow MSP CWPS For Cloud, Services Capabilities

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘Acquisition is a big part of our growth. Over the last six years, we've grown organically very well. But we saw the IT industry changing so rapidly that we knew we couldn't invest fast enough to grow organically,’ Red River Chairman and CEO Rick Bolduc tells CRN.

Microsoft Acquires Cloud Migration Specialist Movere

by Joseph Tsidulko

The SaaS vendor's technology will be deployed in concert with the Azure Migrate tool and third-party solutions to ease enterprise migrations to Microsoft's Azure cloud

Commvault To Acquire Hedvig In $225M Deal, Speeding Up Software-Defined Storage Vision

by Joseph F. Kovar

With the acquisition, Commvault, which has focused primarily on data protection and management, gains new capabilities in primary heterogeneous environments, including on-premises and cloud, thanks to the Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform.

VMware Everywhere—But AWS Still Key

by Joseph Tsidulko

VMware Cloud was once synonymous with Amazon Web Services. Now ‘multi-cloud’ is a better expression of the VMware Hybrid Cloud strategy, but the groundbreaking relationship with the public cloud leader remains a critical component

Why Ingram Micro Is Getting Behind Microsoft HoloLens 2

by Dylan Martin

'When you actually see it and demo it yourself, you really understand the true potential and power that it can bring,' Ingram Micro's Eric Hembree says of the distributor's deal to sell Microsoft's forthcoming HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset.

5 Things To Know About Microsoft's HoloLens 2 Mixed Reality Headset

by Donna Goodison

HoloLens 2 shows great potential over HoloLens 1 in terms of better compute power, the Azure Kinect Integration for full hand tracking and potentially object recognition, a larger field of view, eye tracking, USB-C charging and potentially accessories, and its balanced design, according to DataMesh CEO Jie Li, whose company has been testing the mixed reality headset.

Defense Department, GSA Award $7.6 Billion Office Solutions Contract To General Dynamics Information Technology

by Kyle Alspach

A unit of Dell Technologies and Minburn Technology Group are named as partners on the award, which includes office solutions built on Microsoft Office 365.

Hearst’s Multi-Cloud Strategy Taps AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud

by Donna Goodison

'I tell people all the time if cloud is expensive for you compared to on-prem, then you're not doing it right,’ says Jimmy Shaffer, Hearst’s executive director of cloud and DevOps. 'With cloud, we have huge advantages to be able to tailor the workloads to the environment and be highly cost-effective by doing that.'

AMD's Xbox, PlayStation Work Led To A Big Security Feature In EPYC

by Dylan Martin

'We had 16 keys in a cryptographic isolation on a game console, and that's one of the principal reasons they've never been hacked, even though they're physically in the hands of a lot of people that would love to hack it,' AMD exec Forrest Norrod tells CRN of how a virtualization security feature in EPYC came to be.

Microsoft Expanding Azure VMware Solutions To Eight Regions

by Donna Goodison

The regional expansion of Azure VMware Solutions is based on customer demand and will be across the United States, Western Europe and Asia-Pacific, according to Arpan Shah, general manager of Microsoft Azure.