Webinar: The future of enterprise IT
Posted by Brenon Daly on February 8, 2012
Contact: Brenon Daly In this era of disruptive technologies, what does the future hold for enterprise IT? What new innovations are expected to reshape software, networking and even the datacenter itself in the coming year? For a look ahead, join us for a special webinar on Thursday, February 9 at 9:00am PST/12:00pm EST. (Click here to [...]
Recent Blue Coat shareholders no longer in the red
Posted by Brenon Daly on December 13, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Anyone who bought shares of Blue Coat Systems over the past half-year breathed a sigh of relief after the recent buyout of the old-line security vendor. Thoma Bravo’s bid of $25.81 for each share means that buyers since May are all above water. (The offer represents a 48% premium over the previous [...]
HP takes itself out of the market
Posted by Brenon Daly 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 [...]
ViVu bolsters Polycom’s Web-based videoconferencing credentials
Posted by Tejas Venkatesh on October 18, 2011
Contact: Thejeswi Venkatesh After sitting out of the market for four years, Polycom’s M&A wheels are turning once again. The acquisition of ViVu on Monday was the company’s third purchase this year, and helps Polycom round out its videoconferencing offerings. With many observers expecting video collaboration to become ubiquitous, the purchase helps Polycom extend its [...]
Braving the IPO market
Posted by Tejas Venkatesh on September 16, 2011
Contact: Thejeswi Venkatesh While the IPO pipeline is getting drier, GCT Semiconductor has taken the contrarian route, filing paperwork for its proposed $100m offering. The company, a fabless designer and supplier of 4G mobile system-on-a-chip semiconductor solutions, has seen revenue triple from 2009 to $68.64m. With the mobile industry transitioning to 4G to handle the [...]
The ball is rolling in semiconductor networking M&A
Posted by Ben Kolada on September 13, 2011
Contact: Ben Kolada, Thejeswi Venkatesh In announcing its largest-ever deal, and paying a princely price at the same time, Broadcom is keeping the ball rolling in semiconductor networking M&A. The company’s nearly $4bn pickup of NetLogic Microsystems comes less than two months after rival Intel announced a smaller strategic play of its own, and it [...]
Will a stabilized Cisco step back into the market?
Posted by Brenon Daly on August 11, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly After back-to-back quarters that roughed up the networking giant, Cisco reported on Wednesday a reasonably strong close to it fiscal year. Fourth-quarter revenue and earnings at the company topped Wall Street’s expectations, and included a rebound in Cisco’s core switch business. The company also projected that its overall growth would continue in [...]
Windstream misses the message
Posted by Ben Kolada on August 2, 2011
Contact: Ben Kolada As the telecom industry continues its buying spree, some firms are missing the bigger picture – hosting and datacenter services are the new growth channels for telcos. While CenturyLink and Verizon have each announced acquisitions in the growing datacenter services industry, Windstream Communications appears to be satisfied with consolidating telecom assets. The [...]
Dual track, but singular outcomes
Posted by Brenon Daly on July 21, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly For the third time in just two months, a tech company that had planned to go public has instead ended up inside a company that’s already public. The latest dual-track sale came Wednesday when Force10 Networks opted to accept a bid from Dell rather than see through its IPO plan. The networking [...]
Intel buys Fulcrum to further datacenter product push
Posted by admin on July 19, 2011
Contact: Thejeswi Venkatesh, Ben Kolada In a move that further boosts its 10-Gigabit Ethernet push, Intel has announced that it will acquire Fulcrum Microsystems, a fabless semiconductor company that developed the fully integrated FocalPoint family of 10Gb and 40Gb Ethernet switch chips. The acquisition advances Intel’s desire to transform itself into a comprehensive datacenter provider [...]
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