Links 3/25: Viptela, SevOne Team on SD-WAN Management; Comcast: Stretching the Elastic Cloud: Evolving OpenStack for Scale





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Gartner Recognizes Dell Boomi as a Leader, Positioned Highest for Ability to Execute and Furthest for Completeness of Vision in 2016 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service
(Business Wire)

Viptela, SevOne Team on SD-WAN Management (NoJitter)

Stretching the Elastic Cloud: Evolving OpenStack for Scale (Comcast Labs)

Oracle and Google Write a Tale of Two Clouds (Fortune)

News Analysis - Oracle Unveils Suite of Breakthrough Services.. or short: Oracle Cloud Machine (Enterprise Software Musings by Holger Mueller)


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Links 3/24; TiVo Said to Be in Merger Talks With Rovi; SAP Extends CEO McDermott's Contract Until 2021 After Accident





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TiVo Said to Be in Merger Talks With Rovi
 (NY Times: Dealbook)
Rovi has a couple of hundred employees in the King of Prussia area.

Rovi Talking TiVo Takeover – Report (Light Reading)

The Vanguard Cyborg Takeover (Bloomberg)


AAMCO Selects Salesforce To Enhance Communication And Drive Store Profit For Its Franchisees (Salesforce.com)

SAP Extends CEO McDermott's Contract Until 2021 After Accident
 (Bloomberg)

Verizon touts advantages of FTTH over cable in new ad on eve of consolidating wireline footprint (FierceTelecom)

Comcast CFO Avgiris Builds New Sales and Interaction Platform (Donohue Report)

Bentley Systems, Inc. CEO to present how Technology was used for the Pope’s Visit to Philadelphia (Directons Magazine)

Ben Franklin technology partnership: Where small business goes to incubate (Morning Call)



Mesosphere raises $73.5M Series C led by HPE, with Microsoft as strategic investor (TechCrunch)


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Apple 40th Anniversary Video



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Links 3/23: Update on IBM's MaaS360 (formerly Fiberlink); SevOne hit by spear phishing data breach





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Viptela and SevOne Deliver Centralized, Scalable Management Solution for Software-Defined Digital Infrastructure (Business Wire)

Tech company SevOne hit by spear phishing data breach (Wilmington News Journal)
From a couple of weeks back.


We've heard all about the IBM MobileFirst apps, but what has IBM MaaS360 been up to? (Jack Madden / BrianMadden.com )

Time for adult supervision at Domo? (Denn Howlett / Diginomica)

Veeva OpenData Now Available in 35 Countries – Adds 12 New Western European Countries and Canada (Business Wire)



Samsung is developing a new OS for the Internet of Things (PCWorld)

SAP's Bold IoT Moves Begin With Vodafone Pact (Information Week)

Charter in discussions with Amazon to join Comcast in cable storefront (FierceCable)


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Links 3/22: Google’s cloud business nabs Home Depot; Analyst: Tableau, Qlik Should Survive Microsoft Power BI




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Google’s cloud business nabs Home Depot as customer (VentureBeat)

What will Google do to make its cloud appeal to more companies? (PCWorld)

Microsoft's Power BI hits 5M subscribers, adds deeper Excel integration (PCWorld)

Tableau, Qlik With Better Tools Should Survive Microsoft Power BI (Investor's Business Daily)

Domo takes on Slack with $130 million at $2 billion+ valuation (TechCrunch)


Once-Empty Bell Labs Building Revived as New Jersey Tech Hub (Bloomberg)

Comcast is now selling its cable and internet services through Amazon (Quartz)

Time Warner Cable lowers price of Dodgers channel, hoping to end stalemate (LA Times)

Why a Charter-Time Warner Cable Merger Won’t Actually Kill Cable Companies (Fortune)




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Links 3/21: Comcast marketing Xfinity cable services through Amazon website

DraftKings, FanDuel Agree To N.Y. Shutdown (Multichannel News)

Amazon.com Starts to Sell Comcast Services (Multichannel News)
Comcast's post on Amazon tieup.

The “C” in OCP Is for Coolness (Joe Skorupa / Gartner Blog
Network)


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Philly Tech PeopleNews 3/20/2016: eMoney appoints new CEO; Comcast continues Silicon Valley hiring spree by adding HP IoT biz founder Sridhar Solur




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Radnor-based eMoney Advisor announced the appointment of a "technologist" as CEO late today, Ed O’Brien.
 
Ed O'Brien / Fidelity Investments
O"Brien's appointment reflects "eMoney’s commitment to the financial advisor community and continued dedication to financial technology innovation", the company said in a statement.

O’Brien will report to Michael Durbin, who had been serving as interim CEO of eMoney and remains president of Fidelity Wealth Technologies.

The emphasis on technology makes sense, given the turbulent environment that's reshaping the FinTech industry. Startups are coming from all directions, and established players such as Vanguard Group are taking different approaches.

O’Brien served most recently as senior vice president and head of platform technology for Fidelity Institutional, supporting advisors in various roles at Fidelity over a 30-year career.

Founder Edmond Walters resigned last year, a few months after Fidelity's acquisition of eMoney Advisor.


Comcast continues Silicon Valley hiring spree by adding HP IoT biz founder Sridhar Solur (FierceCable)

InterDigital Adds Philip Trahanas to Board of Directors (Globe Newswire)

Richard W. Vague Joins Swift Capital Board of Directors (PR Web)


Stuzo Welcomes Three New Employees to Growing Philadelphia Office (PR Web)






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Saturday Highlghts: FCC Releases Wireless Bidder List; Comcast, Charter, Altice Cable Swaps Eyed After Deal Approvals




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FCC Releases Wireless Bidder List (Dow Jones via NASDAQ.com)

Comcast, Charter, Altice Cable Swaps Eyed After Deal Approvals
(Investor's Business Daily)


Optimizely lays off 40 employees — around 10% of its workforce (Venturebeat)

Google Is Shopping for Cloud Companies. On the List: Namely and Shopify. (Re/code)


What Google Compare Could've Been (Insurance Networking News)


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How Will We Watch TV Next, And Will Apple Or Comcast Rule It? (Investor's Business Daily)

IBM buys CRM SaaS firm – no, not Salesforce (The Register)

Walgreens Spends Nearly $1.2 B on AmerisourceBergen Shares (AP via ABC News)


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Philadelphia's Baseball Hack Day tomorrow at Wharton



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The coming of Spring means to me the NCAA tournament and the beginning of Baseball season. Oh sure, there are flowers blooming and other wonderful things, and the religious holidays are sacrosanct, but those two things are the biggest emotional touchpoints for me.

Combine baseballl with a hackathon, and you have a real treat.

Philadelphia's Baseball Hack Day is being held tomorrow, March 19, at Huntsman Hall 370, at the Wharton School, starting at 9:30am. There is no charge for participating. Steve Koller, Director of Software Engineering, MLB Advanced Media, will be one of the judges. Baseball Hack Day is also held in other cities along the east coast.

Baseball Hack Day was orginally born out of a Boston area news & geek meetup group Hacks/Hackers and Society of American Baseball Research Boston Chapter after watching the terrible collapse of 2011 Red Sox season.


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eMoney Advisor names new CEO, Ed O’Brien, replacing interim chief


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Radnor-based eMoney Advisor announced the appointment of a "technologist" as CEO late today, Ed O’Brien.
 
Ed O'Brien / Fidelity Investments
O"Brien's appointment reflects "eMoney’s commitment to the financial advisor community and continued dedication to financial technology innovation", the company said in a statement.

O’Brien will report to Michael Durbin, who had been serving as interim CEO of eMoney and remains president of Fidelity Wealth Technologies.

The emphasis on technology makes sense, given the turbulent environment that's reshaping the FinTech industry. Startups are coming from all directions, and established players such as Vanguard Group are taking different approaches.

O’Brien served most recently as senior vice president and head of platform technology for Fidelity Institutional, supporting advisors in various roles at Fidelity over a 30-year career.

Founder Edmond Walters resigned last year, a few months after Fidelity's acquisition of eMoney Advisor.





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