Brocade is building diversity into its current business, moving further away from the SAN switching with which it made it's name. Today, Brocade completes their acquisition of Ruckus Wireless, giving…
Quintillion acquires Arctic Fibre
Quintillion has acquired Arctic Fibre, the Toronto, Canada based company, intending to provide a polar routed fibre between Europe and Japan. On Quintillion's webpage (Arctic Fibre Acquired by Quintillion Networks),…
IBM buys The Weather Company..
After announcing a partnership earlier this year, IBM now announces it's intent to acquire the business and prediction elements of the Weather Company. The Weather Channel, the TV presence that…
Cisco buys OpenDNS
OpenDNS has been acquired by Cisco . The innovative company that provided a managed DNS service under the guise of security becomes part of the networking giant. The OpenDNS team…
Avago to buy Broadcom for $37bn
Avago Technologies is going to spend $37bn in acquiring rival Broadcom . This makes it the largest ship technology merger to date. Avago which initially was part of HP's test…
Ipanema Technologies acquired by InfoVista
Yesterday Ipanema Technologies was acquired by InfoVista, with an announcement in this press release. Given that InfoVista doesn't have an Application Performance Guarantee solution in its portfolio, it's unlikely that…
Bain Capital to take Blue Coat from Thoma Bravo
Venture investment company Bain Capital are taking Thoma Bravo's Blue Coat. The deal to acquire BlueCoat is for $2.4bn cash, and will close in first half 2015. Bain is preparing…
Lenovo completes acquisition of Motorola from Google.
Lenovo issued a press-release yesterday to confirm that they have acquired Motorola Mobility from Google . Motorola Mobility was the handset business created when Motorola split in early 2011, before…