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IBM Targets Fortune 500 With SoftLayer Acquisition
June 05, 2013 12:45 AM
IBM's purchase of cloud provider SoftLayer show how serious Big Blue is about beefing up its enterprise services business. The acquisition comes with important technology, new customer segments and substantial capacity.Fusion-io Buys Hybrid Startup NexGen
April 25, 2013 02:17 PM
Fusion-io, a maker of PCIe flash cards, announced it was acquiring hybrid storage array startup NexGen, which sells a flash-optimized system. Fusion-io will sell NexGen’s software directly to integrators.Violin's $200 Million Acquisition? Don't Buy It
January 22, 2013 11:22 AM
Violin Memory has acquired GridIron Systems, a maker of SAN cache appliances. Speculators put the acquisition at $200 to $300 million, but the numbers don’t add up.NetApp Quietly Absorbs CacheIQ
November 20, 2012 05:42 PM
NetApp has acquired flash-memory caching startup CacheIQ and says it will discontinue CacheIQ's product line, but it isn't saying much about why.Riverbed Tackles APM with Acquisition of OPNET
October 29, 2012 06:12 PM
WAN optimization and network performance management vendor Riverbed is acquiring OPNET, which will broaden its application performance management capabilities.Dell Looks to Boost Software Business With Quest Acquisition
July 02, 2012 04:23 PM
Quest's portfolio bulks up Dell's software group with identity management and security products, as well as migration tools.Dell's SonicWall Acquisition Follows Cheap 'n Easy Blueprint
March 14, 2012 10:16 AM
Dell's Sonicwall acquisition makes sense. Dell's strategy is to sell low-cost desktops, laptops, and servers that are cheap and easy to use to everyone from small companies up to mid-size enterprises with the occasional large enterprise in the mix. Dell is going to do with security what they did with storage and are doing with networking. Remove complexity, bring important features to the surface, and make the resulting products available to the largely under served SMB/SME market.Dell Acquires Security Specialist SonicWall
March 13, 2012 02:32 PM
Dell on Tuesday said it reached a deal to acquire SonicWall with an eye to expanding its presence in the market for systems that help businesses fend off a wide range of cyber-attacks. Privately-held SonicWall specializes in so-called Unified Threat Management platforms, which combine multiple security systems into a single appliance.Brocade Acquisition Rumors Resurface
January 12, 2012 09:00 AM
Brocade Communications is reportedly in negotiations with a private equity firm for a potential acquisition, Reuters said this week. According to reports in the financial press, the storage and networking infrastructure vendor has been working with Qatalyst Partners, the boutique investment bank run by Frank P. Quattrone, for two years to shop itself around, including several failed acquisition attempts with companies such as Hewlett-Packard. However, an analyst who follows the company believes that such an acquisition, if it occurs, would have much less effect on users than would an acquisition by Oracle, which is another rumor going around.IBM And Intel Jump Deeper Into Security Event Management Market
October 05, 2011 10:08 AM
Both IBM and Intel's security arm, McAfee, are going the acquisition route to beef up their security information and event management (SIEM) capabilities. Big Blue is buying Q1 Labs, a provider of security intelligence software, while McAfee is purchasing NitroSecurity, a SIEM developer.Best of the Web
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