Network Break is live from Austin, TX! Greg and Drew record in person in the press room at DellWorld, where we analyze Michael Dell’s press conference and keynote for details on the company’s EMC acquisition, and review new Dell product releases.
We speculate on causes for the recent drop in VMware’s share price, and examine HP’s most recent business moves, including walking away from Helion Public Cloud and its sale of the TippingPoint security appliance business to Trend Micro.
In other tech business news, Western Digital snapped up SanDisk, and SolarWinds announced it was going private with the help of Silver Lake Partners, a private investor that also helped Dell go the same route.
The Let’s Encrypt project, which provides free digital certificates to domain name owners to help encourage the use of HTTPS, announced that its certs are now trusted by all the major browsers.
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Show Notes:
Dell Adds To IoT Biz With New Hardware
Dell Disrupts Internet of Things Marketplace with Dell Edge Gateway 5000 Series and New Analytics Capabilities, Expanding End-to-End Portfolio of IoT Assets – Dell
Dell, Azure Get Cozy
Dell traps Microsoft cloud in a smaller box – The Register
An Open Networking Switch
Dell Networking Z9100-ON – Dell
VMware Share Price Drops
VMware Shares Fall 20% on Investor Concerns About Dell-EMC Deal — Update – Dow Jones Business News
Virtustream Spin Out
EMC And VMware Spin Out Virtustream As Jointly Owned Company – TechCrunch
HP Mothballing Helion Public Cloud Offering
A new model to deliver public cloud – HP
HP Sells TippingPoint
Trend Micro acquires HP’s TippingPoint security team in $300 million deal – ZDNet
Western Digital Consolidates Market
Western Digital to buy SanDisk in $19 billion deal – Reuters
SolarWinds Goes Private
Silver Lake, Thoma Bravo to take SolarWinds private in $4.5 billion deal – Reuters
Yes, Let’s Encrypt!
With goal of universal HTTPS, Let s Encrypt reaches important milestone – Ars Technica
Do You Mind If I Ask A Few Questions?
Dellworld Preview: Questions For Michael Dell – Packet Pushers