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February 5, 2013 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise News for software and services professionals   Today's Software Buzz  It's official: Dell is going private in $24.4B deal Dell said today that it will become a private company with a $24.4 billion transaction led by founder and CEO Michael Dell. Private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners will provide about $1 billion in cash for the deal, and Microsoft will put up a $2 billion loan. Michael Dell, who owns about 14% of the company, is providing some cash through MSD Capital. The company has 45 days to find another buyer. The New York Times (tiered subscription model)/DealBook blog (2/5)        Cloud Computing  Oracle targets 4G VoIP in $2.1B deal for Acme Packet Oracle will acquire Acme Packet in a deal valued at $2.1 billion, with the transaction expected to close before July. Acme's session border controllers are expected to give Oracle the ability to help enterprises transition from legacy 2G voice communications to 4G VoIP wireless communications. The New York Times (tiered subscription model)/DealBook blog (2/4) , GigaOm (2/4)      Forecast cites growth for enterprise cloud market The market for enterprise cloud services is expected to increase by 17% this year, and to hit $31.9 billion in 2017, Analysys Mason says in a report. Two-thirds of the market growth last year was in software-as-a-service, with infrastructure-as-a-service accounting for the rest. IaaS will be 43% of the enterprise cloud services market by 2017, the firm predicts. Telecompetitor.com (2/4)      IBM aims to bring Big Data computing to SMBs IBM says it wants to bring affordable Big Data and cloud technology to small and midsized businesses, and it's dropping prices and debuting servers and storage products to make it happen. "They are serving notice to competitors saying we are not giving up and by continuing to offer ever-improving performance to customers, they are making sure there's no temptation to switch," Forrester Research analyst Rich Fichera says. The New York Times (tiered subscription model)/Bits blog (2/4) , Reuters (2/5)   Mobile & Wireless  Analysis: Microsoft's agenda gets mobile Microsoft is looking to focus more on mobile, these articles argue. "Microsoft will place a do-not-fail priority on tablets in 2013," says David Johnson of Forrester Research. The cloud-based Office 365 subscription service and Office 2013 also rank high in importance, and the company wants more developers writing applications for Windows 8 and Windows Phone, Sean Ludwig writes. VentureBeat (2/4) , TechCrunch (2/4)      Gartner forecasts wider embrace of hybrid apps, Apple devices Mobile applications will increasingly be hybrid combinations of Web programming languages wrapped in native code, Gartner says. It also predicts an increasing embrace for Apple devices by enterprise IT. eWeek (2/4) , TechRepublic/CIO Insights blog (2/5)      Other News Facebook works on a geolocation app, source says Bloomberg (2/5)        Security & Privacy  Classified data safe despite attack, Energy Department says Hackers hit the U.S. Energy Department's network in January, but officials said in an e-mail that "no classified data was compromised." The department says it is increasing security measures and network monitoring. The New York Times (tiered subscription model)/Bits blog (2/4) , Reuters (2/4)      Other News How programmers can make their code more secure InfoWorld (2/4)        Government IT  Google, Microsoft support FCC proposal for free Wi-Fi networks Google and Microsoft are joining an industry effort in support of a Federal Communications Commission proposal for free Wi-Fi networks using existing spectrum. Wireless carriers and some Republican members of Congress oppose the plan, with the GOP saying such spectrum should be auctioned to private enterprise. Cisco Systems and other suppliers of networking and telecommunications equipment are asking the FCC to guard against interference for the public airwaves. The Washington Post (2/3)        SIIA News  Don't miss Steven VanRoekel keynote at CloudGOV 2013 Register now and don't miss the federal chief information officer for the U.S., Steven VanRoekel, delivering the opening keynote at CloudGOV, Feb. 12 in Washington D.C. Learn how Cloud First, FedRAMP, data center consolidation and mobile strategies will influence agency procurement going forward, and see the latest innovations from service providers. 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