Google Cloud hires Oracle's Amit Zavery as VP of engineering. Pairing with CEO Thomas Kurian reinforces PaaS & Apigee API push. Google Cloud Next 2019 conference approaches.
CGI bids to acquire IT consulting firm Acando for roughly $459 million. The proposed deal involves 2,200 Acando employees across Stockholm, Sweden; Oslo, Norway; Hamburg, Germany and more.
Zendesk invests in Stella Connect, a SaaS platform for contact center agents & their managers. A Zendesk-Stella Connect cloud integration is available.
Nvidia acquires Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 billion. The deal extends Nvidia's chips from video game & cryptocurrency use cases deeper into data centers & high performance computing (HPC).
Mission, a Top 100 Public Cloud MSP & Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner, scores $8 million line of credit for cloud services customer optimization. Silicon Valley Bank involved.
