Tesla has added two independent directors to its board, Oracle founder and executive chairman Larry Ellison and Walgreens executive Kathleen Wilson-Thompson, as part of a settlement with U.S. securities regulators over CEO Elon Musk’s infamous tweets about taking the company private. The pair joined the board as of December 27, Tesla said in an announcement early […]
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AWS signs on to defend itself in Oracle’s JEDI RFP lawsuit against US government
Just when you didn’t think there could be any more drama over the Pentagon’s decade long, $10 billion JEDI contract RFP, the plot thickened again last week when Amazon Web Services (AWS) joined the US government as a defendant in Oracle’s lawsuit over the Pentagon’s handling of the contract RFP process. Earlier this month, Oracle […]
View More AWS signs on to defend itself in Oracle’s JEDI RFP lawsuit against US governmentPimcore closes $3.5M for its open-source data platform to expand in the US
Pimcore, an open-source platform for data and customer experience management which has emerged out of Austria, has closed $3.5 million in a Series A funding led by German Auctus Capital Partners AG. The funding will be used for its US expansion. Pimcore is aimed at any channel, device, or industry that wants to manage its […]
View More Pimcore closes $3.5M for its open-source data platform to expand in the USOracle is suing the US government over $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract process
Oracle filed suit in federal court last week alleging yet again that the decade-long $10 billion Pentagon JEDI contract with its single-vendor award is unfair and illegal. The complaint, which has been sealed at Oracle’s request, is available in the public record with redactions. If all of this sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the same argument the […]
View More Oracle is suing the US government over $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract processThe White House will meet with tech execs to talk ‘transformational ideas’
Top tech executives from Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Oracle will head to the White House next Thursday to discuss “bold, transformational ideas” focused on U.S. innovation. The meeting, framed as a “roundtable discussion” by The Wall Street Journal, is expected to a broad range of emerging tech topics, from 5G to AI to quantum computing, […]
View More The White House will meet with tech execs to talk ‘transformational ideas’Government denies Oracle’s protest of $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud RFP
When Oracle filed a protest in August with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI RFP process was unfair, it probably had little chance of succeeding. Today, the GAO turned away the protest. The JEDI contract has been set up as a winner-take-all affair. With $10 billion on the table, there has […]
View More Government denies Oracle’s protest of $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud RFPIn venture capital, it’s still the age of the unicorn
Howie Xu Contributor Share on Twitter Howie Xu is the vice president of artificial intelligence and machine learning at Zscaler. He previously co-founded TrustPath and served as an entrepreneur in residence at Greylock. This month marks the 5-year anniversary of Aileen Lee’s landmark article, “Welcome To The Unicorn Club”. At the time, the piece defined […]
View More In venture capital, it’s still the age of the unicornThe hybrid cloud market just got a heck of a lot more compelling
Let’s start with a basic premise that the vast majority of the world’s workloads remain in private data centers. Cloud infrastructure vendors are working hard to shift those workloads, but technology always moves a lot slower than we think. That is the lens through which many cloud companies operate. The idea that you operate both […]
View More The hybrid cloud market just got a heck of a lot more compellingOracle’s Larry Ellison keeps poking AWS because he has no choice
Larry Ellison gave his Oracle Openworld keynote on Monday and of course he took several shots at AWS. In his view, his company’s cloud products were cheaper, better and faster than AWS, but then what would you expect him to say? He rolled out a slide with all the facts and figures in case you […]
View More Oracle’s Larry Ellison keeps poking AWS because he has no choiceOracle acquires DataFox, a developer of ‘predictive intelligence as a service’ across millions of company records
Oracle today announced that it has made another acquisition, this time to enhance both the kind of data that it can provide to its business customers, and its artificial intelligence capabilities: it is buying DataFox, a startup that has amassed a huge company database — currently covering 2.8 million public and private businesses, adding 1.2 […]
View More Oracle acquires DataFox, a developer of ‘predictive intelligence as a service’ across millions of company recordsWhat each cloud company could bring to the Pentagon’s $10 B JEDI cloud contract
The Pentagon is going to make one cloud vendor exceedingly happy when it chooses the winner of the $10 billion, ten-year enterprise cloud project dubbed the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (or JEDI for short). The contract is designed to establish the cloud technology strategy for the military over the next 10 years as it begins […]
View More What each cloud company could bring to the Pentagon’s $10 B JEDI cloud contractWhy the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI deal has cloud companies going nuts
By now you’ve probably heard of the Defense Department’s massive winner-take-all $10 billion cloud contract dubbed the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (or JEDI for short). Star Wars references aside, this contract is huge, even by government standards.The Pentagon would like a single cloud vendor to build out its enterprise cloud, believing rightly or wrongly that […]
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