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cloudcomputing | September 14, 2018

Payments provider Stripe remains the number one privately owned cloud company ahead of social messaging firm Slack, according to the latest rankings from Forbes.The media firm’s latest Cloud 100 list, celebrating the best private cloud firms – as in, cloud companies who are private – saw Stripe retain top spot with what Forbes calls ‘the online tool kit for digital payments, helping billions in transactions flow back into the economy.’ After Stripe and Slack however – which was third last year –...

CRN | January 15, 2020

The industry's leading virtualization technology vendors—VMware and Citrix—have finalized a settlement that will avoid further litigation stemming from VMware's recent acquisition of Avi Networks. The two companies have “resolved the litigation” without taking their patent-infringement dispute to trial, confirmed Tony Gomes, Citrix executive vice president and chief legal officer. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. When it closed its deal for Santa Clara-based Avi Networks this past sum...

Sdxcentral | January 14, 2020

Performance monitoring company LogicMonitor updated its AIOps roadmap with the acquisition of Swedish AIOps company Unomaly. The company said the deal will provide a more robust artificial intelligence (AI) base for IT teams.“The value of Unomaly’s patented algorithms, combined with LogicMonitor’s existing AIOps capabilities, will further help IT teams operating in complex infrastructure environments use AI to automatically analyze and surface anomalies,” said LogicMonitor CEO Kevin McGibben in ...

Virtualization Review | January 13, 2020

For the past 20 or so years, various server manufacturers have enabled system administrators (SAs) to remotely access their server via the network at the BIOS level, an ability commonly referred to as out-of-band management (OOB). In the past, I have worked with OOB products including IBM (RSA), Dell (DRAC), and HP (iLO), but I have never had the chance to work with Intel Active Management Technology (AMT). In this article, I will first walk you through how to enable and configure AMT, and then ...