As noted in the previous post (“Dell intends to acquire Force10 networks“), DELL (DELL) yesterday completed the acquisition of Force10networks. Dell Press Release announcing the completion of the Force 10 networks acquisition
Tag Archive: acquisitions
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Aug
16
2011
Google says “Hello, Moto!” for acquisition
So Motorola Mobility (MMI) (the mobile phone business that was finally spun out of the Motorola parent organisation in January 2011, leaving Motorola Solutions (MSI)) to be acquired by Google (GOOG). In the rest of the article we look to see what the impact is on the Android platform, its partners and if Google could …
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Jul
21
2011
Dell intends to acquire Force10 networks
So another acquisition by a computer systems supplier of a networking infrastructure company. This trend started when Compaq acquired Thomas Conrad back in 1995, and is continuing today with the announcement that Dell (DELL) and are intending to acquire Force10 (FCTN) , according to information on both their websites. Dell’s announcement Force10′s announcement This will …
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Jul
20
2011
Riverbed goes shopping for godly web performance
Riverbed (RVBD) has been shopping again. This time, it’s looking to purchase Zeus Technology and Aptimize. Both of these are privately owned companies, with Zeus being based in Cambridge in the UK. This appears to be looking to take on board the ADC and optimization technology of both organisations, forming an “asymmetric optimization technology” business …
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Jul
29
2008
Aggregation continues – Brocade and Foundry
In another sign of the current state of the industry market place, we’ve just seen the announcement of the aquistion of network switch supplier Foundry by SAN switch supplier Brocade. Whilst some of the blogs around seem to want to portray this is an opportinity for heartburn, I’m not sure that this will be the …
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Jun
09
2008
Purple and Blue – Updated Packeteer and BlueCoat merger information
So Packeteer and BlueCoat (BCSI) have done the deed, and Packeteer is now “A BlueCoat Company”. Quick take-aways so far indicate the planned killing off of a significant portion of the Packeteer product line, and the maintenance of the current Packetshaper product line (Packetshaper, Intelligence Centre and PolicyCentre).
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May
10
2008
Purple and Blue – Packeteer and BlueCoat
So there’s loads of stuff on the net about the upcoming merger between BlueCoat and Packeteer. I’m going to add my own 2p to the thoughts, as I think that this is a potentially large issue for users of Packetshaper, iShared and SkyX devices.
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