CSC to Merge With the Enterprise Services Segment of HPE

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Welcome to 5 Minute Briefing: Data Center, a bi-weekly report focused on the needs of professionals managing complex IT infrastructures, published in cooperation with SHARE®. To subscribe, visit here.   Published in cooperation with SHARE Inc. May 31 2016 SPONSORED BY Custom Education: SHARE Academy Boost your IT skills by enrolling in the July 31 SHARE Academy program. This summer’s SHARE Academy offers two educational tracks: CICS Immersion and z/OS Bug Busterz. Each feature specialized and in-depth technical content, including lectures and labs, taught by leading industry experts. School is back in session this July. For just $550, register today!   Extend the relevance of - and investment in - legacy host applications with Virtel Web Suite: Upgrade to browser-based thin-client 3270 TE Replace 3270 screens with user-friendly Web portals (GUIs) Expose host apps through web and message services Sponsored by SysperTec Comunication   In This Issue... NEWS FLASHES CSC to Merge with Enterprise Services Segment of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Dynatrace Teams With Pivotal to Enhance Application Monitoring IBM Unveils Powerful New Memory Technology EMC Ships Open Source Tool for Cloud and IoT Devices   NEWS FROM SHARE Changing the Culture Around Mainframe Technology and the Cloud with IBM Distinguished Engineer Frank DeGilio   THINK ABOUT IT Data Centers Go Micro   News Flashes CSC to Merge with Enterprise Services Segment of Hewlett Packard Enterprise CSC’s board of directors has unanimously approved a plan to merge the company with the Enterprise Services segment of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The strategic combination of the two businesses will create what executives described as one of the world’s largest pure-play IT services companies, with annual revenues of $26 billion and more than 5,000 clients in 70 countries. Full Article  Dynatrace Teams With Pivotal to Enhance Application Monitoring Dynatrace, a management tools provider, has teamed up with Pivotal, a digital services tools vendor, to deploy its application monitoring solutions for the Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) platform. Dynatrace Application Monitoring Service Broker Tile and Buildpack Extensions for Pivotal Cloud Foundry will provide actionable performance insights for businesses with cloud initiatives. Full Article  IBM Unveils Powerful New Memory Technology For the first time, scientists at IBM Research have demonstrated reliably storing three bits of data per cell using a relatively new memory technology known as phase-change memory (PCM). Full Article  EMC Ships Open Source Tool for Cloud and IoT Devices EMC has introduced UniK, an open source contribution that enables developers to deploy applications to the cloud and IoT devices by compiling application sources into unikernels. By releasing UniK as a collaborative open source project, EMC expects the tool to help bring customers closer to cloud native application platforms through the choice of running applications with containers or unikernels. Full Article    News From SHARE Changing the Culture Around Mainframe Technology and the Cloud with IBM Distinguished Engineer Frank DeGilio Do you ever wonder about the vital role of mainframe technology in the future of cloud computing? Frank DeGilio, Chief Architect for Cloud, IBM Systems Group, discusses this with SHARE in an eye-opening Q&A. He also touches on the important role of culture in collaborations between mainframe and distributed systems professionals. How can IT professionals reshape the conversation around mainframes and the cloud? Find out what DeGilio has to say on mindSHARE.    Think About It Data Centers Go Micro The micro data center market is growing fast, and will triple in size over the next 4 years, increasing from $2 billion to more than $6 billion by 2020, according to recent research. This is being driven by the growth of edge networks, supporting the Internet of Things. These micro data centers will have many of the components of their larger counterparts, but will be highly portable and mobile.  To stay on top of all the trends, subscribe to Database Trends and Applications magazine.    About Us Database Trends and Applications, published by Unisphere Media, provides timely coverage of the technology and intelligence needed to conceptualize, plan, initiate, implement and manage large-scale integrated information projects. SHARE members are invited to subscribe to DBTA here. 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