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Flexera Acquires RightScale – The Multi-Cloud Management Platform Company

Flexera, an IL-based software asset management (SAM) firm announced that it has acquired RightScale, one of the first multi-cloud management and cost optimization companies. Cloud IaaSSOURCE: GRAPHICSTOCK RightScale was founded in 2007 – much before cloud computing became mainstream – to deliver vendor-agnostic cloud management capabilities. It was built as a platform to abstract provider-specific services, features, and tools that could bring multiple IaaS environments into a common control plane.… Read more

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GitLab raises $100 million from Iconiq, GV, and Khosla, at $1.1 billion valuation

Code collaboration and DevOps platform GitLab has raised $100 million in a series D round of funding led by Iconiq Capital, with participation from existing investors GV and Khosla Ventures. The latest round of funding comes nearly a year after GitLab announced its $20 million series C round, at which point the San Francisco-based company revealed its valuation had more than doubled since its series B round a year earlier — but it didn’t give a precise dollar valuation at the time.… Read more

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Amazon picks New York and Northern Virginia for HQ2

After running a year-long competition that drew interest from hundreds of cities and a number of states, Amazon has reportedly chosen New York City and Northern Virginia to split duty as its second headquarters.The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday that Amazon (AMZN) has picked New York’s Long Island City and Arlington County’s Crystal City neighborhoods, citing people familiar with the matter.Amazon declined to comment to CNN.… Read more

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VMware to Acquire Startup CloudHealth in Push to Grow Cloud Offerings

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – VMware Inc will acquire CloudHealth Technologies as part of the information technology company’s continued push into cloud-based software services, the company announced on Monday. The Palo Alto, California, company will pay approximately $500 million for the Boston-based startup, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. VMware will purchase CloudHealth for the company’s cloud management platform, VMware Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger told Reuters.… Read more

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The 12 Best Video Conferencing Apps for Teams

In 1884, eight years after Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson had the world’s first phone call, industrialist John Jacob Astor IV published his predictions for the 21st century. Along with ill-fated predictions of steel-covered roads and the discovery an anti-gravitational force, he also foresaw video calls. “Telephones have been so improved that one person can speak in his natural voice with another in any part of the globe, the wire that enables him to hear also showing him the face of the speaker,” wrote Astor in his history of the future.… Read more