Where to go after the sale?

Posted by on December 7, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly, Thejeswi Venkatesh In an effort to bolster its Smart Grid offering, Siemens AG reached earlier this week for eMeter, a company that the German giant had invested in three years ago. The sale comes after San Mateo, California-based eMeter had looked to raise a round of funding last summer, on top of [...]

BMC rumored to be going mobile

Posted by on December 2, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Rumors are swirling that BMC will announce the acquisition of AirWatch, a purchase that would extend the systems management provider’s reach into the fast-growing mobile device market. The deal, which may print next week, would mark the first major move to consolidate the highly fragmented mobile device management (MDM) space, a market [...]

Securing a tweet

Posted by on November 29, 2011

Contact: Wendy Nather Whisper Systems has announced that it has been acquired by Twitter (appropriately enough, the news was tweeted). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but given Whisper’s emphasis on Google Android security, we expect that the deal was as much about the brains behind the technology as it was about the tools [...]

Numara keeps flowing along

Posted by on November 23, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Throughout its long and winding 20-year history, the name may have changed for Numara Software, but the business is still the same. The IT service desk management vendor was originally known as Blue Ocean Software, a name that got erased during the three years the company was owned by Intuit. After TA [...]

HP takes itself out of the market

Posted by on November 22, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Over its two previous fiscal years, Hewlett-Packard has spent more than $20bn on a dozen acquisitions, with five of them costing the tech giant more than $1bn each. Those days are over, according to recently named CEO Meg Whitman. In her first conference call discussing quarterly financial results on Monday, Whitman told [...]

Cloud deals arising from the fog

Posted by on November 10, 2011

Contact: Ben Kolada Going into the last day of the 9th Cloud Computing Expo, held in Santa Clara, California, we get the feeling that conference attendees will see an M&A shakeout within the next few years. To a degree, this dealmaking has already begun, with a small handful of exhibitors already having been scooped up, [...]

A splashy IPO for Splunk

Posted by on October 20, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly After spending the past two weeks baking off, Splunk has picked Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan Securities and Credit Suisse to run the books on its upcoming IPO, according to sources. The offering is expected to raise $150m for the San Francisco-based company, with the paperwork likely coming in January. Splunk will finish [...]

Big Blue’s recent shopping spree

Posted by on October 17, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly After a slow start to the year, IBM has dramatically picked up the pace – and the spending – in its M&A program. Big Blue only announced its first deal of 2011 in late March, and then was out of the market for nearly a half-year. But in the past two months [...]

Oracle’s unlikely acquisition

Posted by on October 11, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly After spending last week with its customers and partners at its annual trade show, Oracle will be meeting later this week with its owners. The company’s annual shareholder meeting is slated for Wednesday. If the talk at OpenWorld is any indication, the question of M&A is almost certain to come up during [...]

The emergence of convergence

Posted by on September 21, 2011

Contact: Ben Kolada The telecommunications and IT industries are increasingly converging, with Verizon Communications’ recent CloudSwitch acquisition perhaps the best example of a telco moving up the IT stack. But the CloudSwitch deal is just one example of a series of moves by telecom service providers to attack the $3bn cloud computing market. Other telcos [...]

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