Carl Icahn Waves White Flag in War With Dell

Despite saying VMware should be worth $300 per share, and filing a lawsuit against Dell to stop the deal, Icahn late today issued a statement that essentially says he’s done fighting.

Dell Raises VMware Offer, Secures Binding Agreements From Shareholders

Dell Technologies raised its offer to buy back the stock that tracks Dell’s controlling stake in VMware. Dell previously offered $109 per share. Today the company said it will pay $14 billion, or $120 per share. If shareholders approve this deal, Dell would again become a publicly traded company...

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Seven New Spectre, Meltdown-Type Attacks Discovered

Intel says not to worry and that the earlier patches it issued address these new security flaws as well as the older hardware bugs.

Riverbed SD-WAN Gets Security, Enterprise-Routing Upgrade

The vendor integrated SD-WAN, application acceleration, visibility, and security in a single device and says its SD-WAN now has more than 1,000 customers.

Rubrik Andes Adds Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft Protection and Automation

The company’s 14th release of its flagship Cloud Data Management platform automates and protects applications across data centers and clouds. “All the nerd nobs have been automated,” said Chris Wahl, chief technologist at Rubrik.

Latest Security Unicorn Netskope Scores $168.7M Series F

An IPO is on the horizon but being acquired is not. “We are fiercely independent,” Netskope CEO Sanjay Beri said.

Cisco Combines SD-WAN and Security, Extends Intent-Based Networking to Wireless

The new Cisco SD-WAN Security product combines Viptela’s technology with Meraki, Cisco’s cloud-managed IT service and wireless LAN product, plus Cisco security software.

Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Ceph Storage Group

The Ceph project is a unified distributed storage system providing applications with object, block, and file system interfaces.

NetApp: HCI Means Hybrid Cloud, Not Hyperconverged

What’s in a name? NetApp says its HCI is really hybrid cloud infrastructure (not hyperconverged), but it sounds more like composable.

ForeScout Buys SecurityMatters for $113 to Expand Network Protection

The Netherlands-based startup provides device visibility, continuous network monitoring, and threat and anomaly detection specific to operational technology and industrial environments.

Cisco Continues Kubernetes Kraze With AWS Hybrid Software

While Cisco adds Kubernetes support across its portfolio, other vendors like VMware and IBM recently bought companies to boost their container cred.

Maxta Adds Analytics to Hyperconverged Software Stack

This provides visibility into customers’ data centers and clouds and helps them address problems before they occur.

Cisco Axes Hundreds of Jobs

This round of layoffs follows several recent departures from Cisco’s senior executive team.

OVH Public Cloud, Built on OpenStack, Arrives in U.S.

“We are the perfect global partner even if they don’t know the OVH name,” says Russell P. Reeder, CEO of OVH US.

VMware Embraces Containers at VMworld Europe

The virtualization giant updated its hybrid cloud stack with new Kubernetes support and also announced a new integration with IBM Cloud’s managed Kubernetes service.

Intel Quietly Previews Next-Gen Cascade Lake Processors

The chipmaker expects to release the new class of Intel Xeon Scalable processors in the first half of 2019.

Extreme Networks Busts Into Agile Data Center Networking

The bundled hardware and software includes data center switching and routing hardware acquired from Brocade.

Google Launches $25 Million Fund, Doubles Down on AI for Social Good  

The new fund follows Google’s decision not to bid for the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI contract because the work may not support its principles.

Amazon, Druva Team Up on AWS Snowball Edge

Snowball Edge is AWS’ data transfer device that includes on-board compute. Druva’s data management platform now integrates with the device.

Fortinet Posts Solid Q3 Growth, Wins ‘Quadruple Competitor Displacement’ Deal

Execs didn’t say which competitors Fortinet’s security products displaced, but it competes against companies including Palo Alto Networks, Check Point Software, and Cisco.