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 [...]
Telefónica nabs cloud hosting firm acens Technologies
Posted by Ben Kolada on June 9, 2011
Contact: Ben Kolada Consolidation between the telecommunications and hosting industries continued today with Madrid-based telco Telefónica purchasing cloud hosting and colocation provider acens Technologies from buyout shop Nazca Capital. Although this deal seems to be just another in the long line of telco-hosting pairings, it actually represents one of the biggest foreign consolidations that we’ve [...]
Cisco shares are a flop for Flip’s owners
Posted by Brenon Daly on April 13, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Since the purchase of Flip, Cisco Systems shares have been a flop. That’s actually an important consideration for the former owners of digital camera maker Pure Digital Technologies, which Cisco shuttered on Tuesday. Recall that when the networking giant (somewhat inexplicably) reached for Pure Digital two years ago, it covered the $590m [...]
EMC bolsters security portfolio with NetWitness
Posted by Brenon Daly on April 4, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly, Josh Corman Announcing its first deal in almost five months, EMC moved to bolster its security management portfolio by picking up fast-growing NetWitness. The purchase adds the rich network data and powerful analysis capabilities of the NetWitness NextGen platform, which is a bit like a TiVo for network traffic – capturing, indexing [...]
The 451 Group picks up ‘voice of the consumer’
Posted by Brenon Daly on March 3, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly For today’s deal, we move a little bit closer to home: The 451 Group announced today that it has acquired the assets of TheInfoPro, a New York-based advisory and research firm. Founded in 2002, TheInfoPro counts more than 100 organizations as clients and draws on extensive surveys of those IT buyers to [...]
Facebook dives into mobile
Posted by admin on January 31, 2011
Contact: Jarrett Streebin In its eighth acquisition in the last six months, Facebook picked up Seattle-based rel8tion. The startup is only nine months old and still in stealth mode, but it appears to be focused on targeted mobile advertising using location and demographics – data that Facebook has tons of. With 200 million active mobile users [...]
SolarWinds looks to shine in other markets
Posted by Brenon Daly on January 24, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Having built a billion-dollar market cap through a cheap and easy offering for network management, SolarWinds is looking to take that approach to new markets through small acquisitions. Exactly a year ago, the company picked up Tek-Tools to add storage management to its portfolio, and now it steps fully into application performance [...]
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