Data streaming platform provider Confluent has appointed Gavin Jones to the role of vice president of ANZ sales.

Developer security specialist Snyk has appointed Marc Tan to the newly created role of channels and alliances director for Australia and New Zealand.

Digital service delivery intelligence provider ThousandEyes has made three senior appointments in Australia.

Cloud analytics company Teradata has appointed Keith Budge to the newly created role of APJ executive vice president.

Intel data centre group vice-president and network business incubator division general manager Caroline Chan has told a a panel session at Dell Technologies World this week that "5G is fundamentally different" because it has a lot of cloud-native aspects.

Dont worry, be Snappy: Tibco has acquired SnappyData, the company behind the open source, distributed, in-memory platform for unified analytics of the same name.

Integration, API management and analytics vendor Tibco Software has appointed Melissa Ries as as its general manager of Asia Pacific and Japan.

Fourteen companies have joined a group of 10 others in pledging not to indulge in harsh tactics to enforce open-source licences and adopting a deal known as the GPL Co-operation Commitment.

Telstra’s two-year old partnership with Silicon Valley software start-up Pivotal is gathering pace with the telco saying it is focused on digitisation, and the technology that will help it deliver new customer experiences, “as well as shape the future of Australia”.

Dell Technologies is celebrating the anniversary of its formation through the merger of Dell and EMC.

As part of an accelerated push into the satellite data comms market, with faster satellite and mobile Internet for consumers, Pivotel’s latest pivotal move is an acquisition.

eLearning vendor Skillsoft is looking to grow its business in the APAC region with the appointment of former Pivotal, EMC and SAP senior manager Melissa Ries as vice-president and managing director of Asia Pacific.

Dell's acquisition of EMC has been completed.

Digital transformation solutions provider Pivotal has appointed former CA Technologies and Sun Microsystems executive, Lionel Lim, as vice-president and managing director APAC and Japan.

Telstra has announced a major partnership with US software development company Pivotal to be involved with its new R&D facility in Sydney.

Telstra has opened its new ‘Gurrowa’ R&D lab in Melbourne, which it says will be the centrepiece of its development efforts.

The use of big data and data analytics is pervading Australian businesses at a rapid rate, and is now used by many CEOs and boards to drive the innovation agenda.

The new version of Pivotal Big Data Suite delivers wide-ranging improvements.

EMC's Federation Business Data Lake is a pre-integrated big data system that can be installed and running in just seven days for a 1PB configuration.

Some of the biggest names in big data have announced a new industry consortium called the Open Data Platform (ODP).