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Tweet A new announcement by Creative Assembly has revealed Total War Saga, a brand new spin-off series which will focus on pivotal points in history instead of entire eras or iconic individuals. Read more… Neowin

Tweet If you’re confused about all the action with EMC, VMware and Pivotal over the past several months, you’re not alone. CEOs have traded places, joint ventures have been struck, product lines have been sold and GE even came on board. And that’s before you even start talking about all the new technology. I sat down with EMC SVP and CTO John Roese on Tuesday at the company’s annual EMC…

Tweet Pivotal boss Paul Maritz knows how to paint a pretty picture that enterprise customers want to hear — Pivotal will launch an infrastructure-independent “operating system” for the cloud. It  will enable new applications to help companies make sense of the data explosion expected to come with the Internet of Things. He pledged that PivotalOne technology will run on Amazon Web Services, and OpenStack and other infrastructures. And that this…

Tweet The Pivotal Initiative is now selling software and support subscriptions for the Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS) and is opening up governance of that effort to bring outside voices into the process. The addition of “external committers” to the project could ease tensions brewing among some Cloud Foundry backers — companies that built their own PaaSes atop the Cloud Foundry framework. But then again, the fact that Pivotal is now selling…

Tweet Mark Lucovsky has moved from  Cloud Foundry, the open-source Platform-as-a-Service effort that is being spun off from VMware as part of the fledgling the Pivotal Initiative and apparently back to the VMware mothership. This is how Lucovsky’s Twitter profile appeared Friday morning: “Done with Cloud Foundry. Hand off to Pivotal Labs complete. Now hacking a mega-cloud platform for VMware with Vadim, Skaar, Oleg, Ben, and Doug.”  According to a profile update…