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See cote.io/promos for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on.
I have a discount code for Operability.IO, September 19th and 20th in London. I hear good things about this conference; check out their talks from last year. It has a good list of speakers, including our very own Casey West. You can 10% off registration if you use the code COTEMEMOOIO16.
Check out https://cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
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Coverage: “several private equity firms, including KRR, Apollo Global Management and the Carlyle Group, are looking to pay $40 billion or more to buy HPE outright”
Bill Hilf out of HPE, another cloud re-org at HPE
Let’s compare: IBM, Oracle, EMC/Dell, even Verizon/Yahoo! - big tech companies surviving long term.
Meanwhile: rumors of Rackspace going private.