Webinar: The future of enterprise IT

Posted by 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 [...]

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, [...]

Confab-ulous M&A at two cloud companies

Posted by on August 30, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Two of the most richly valued tech companies are each hosting annual get-togethers this week, and M&A is figuring into both of the confabs. VMware opened VMworld in Las Vegas on Monday, while saleforce.com followed a day later with Dreamforce in San Francisco. As these companies were getting ready to open the [...]

Riverbed buys Zeus, but shares go to Hades

Posted by on July 20, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Announcing the largest deal in its history, Riverbed Technology said it will hand over $110m in cash for Zeus Technology in an effort to broaden its application performance portfolio. Zeus, which sells software for load balancing and traffic management, generated about $12m in revenue over the last year and is expected to [...]

Citrix targets SMBs with Kaviza

Posted by on May 24, 2011

Contact: Ben Kolada Broadening its enterprise VDI portfolio to the SMB segment, Citrix has acquired Kaviza, a startup offering VDI-in-a-box technology to SMBs. The move follows an initial Citrix investment announced in April 2010, and brings Kaviza fully under its fold. Though Citrix already had an enterprise desktop virtualization product – XenDesktop – the company [...]

Quest builds up vWorkspace with RemoteScan buy

Posted by on May 6, 2011

Contact: Karin Kelley, Ben Kolada In its latest desktop virtualization and management play, Quest Software has announced that it is purchasing the assets of imaging device management vendor RemoteScan. The deal lands Quest more healthcare accounts, mostly in North America, but the company plans an aggressive push into European markets next. Quest will integrate eight-year-old [...]

The 451 Group picks up ‘voice of the consumer’

Posted by 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 [...]

A four-bagger for VMware

Posted by on February 9, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly If the virtualization thing doesn’t work out for VMware, the company could always spin off a hedge fund. At least that’s what we’ve been thinking as Verizon Communications’ purchase of Terremark Worldwide appears set to close very soon. When the deal does wrap, VMware will walk away with a tidy windfall from [...]

Juniper back in the market — and how

Posted by on December 7, 2010

Contact: Brenon Daly Just nine months after Juniper Networks picked up a small stake in Altor Networks through the startup’s second round of funding, the networking giant decided Monday to take home the whole thing. Juniper will hand over $95m in cash for the rest of the virtual firewall vendor. (Altor had raised around $16m [...]

BMC adds to automation capabilities

Posted by on December 3, 2010

by Brenon Daly BMC Software hopes its latest purchase will make life easier for database administrators (DBAs) and systems operations. The management giant on Friday picked up longtime partner GridApp Systems, adding the startup’s database automation offering to its broader automation and management portfolio. GridApp automates tasks such as database provisioning and patching – mundane [...]

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