Sabio strengthens customer engagement analytics portfolio with acquisition of Rapport insight and analysis business
Acquisitions
CEO: Intermedia Acquisition Will Boost Channel Investment
Intermedia’s acquisition by private equity firm means more investment in channel, says Michael Gold
HPE Acquires Data Centre ‘Unicorn’ SimpliVity For £527m
HPE is to pay $650m in cash for the hyperconverged startup, which was once valued at more than $1bn
GCI Acquires UC Specialist Freedom Communications
Acquisition-hungry GCI snaps up Freedom in first purchase of 2017
BT and EE’s Indirect Channels Merged To Create New Organisation
Plus new executive team for new BT Business Partner Channel
OCF Gets Intense With Data Analytics
OCF strengthens business intelligence business with acquisition of data analytics specialist
Acquisition-Hungry Daisy Snaps Up Alternative Networks
Daisy acquires telecoms rival Alternative Networks for £165m
RedstoneConnect acquires IT services firm Commensus
£2.4 miilion acquisition enables the group to offer a cloud-hosted IT services solution
No trimming of NetApp flash offerings after acquisition
Things staying as they are as storage player becomes ‘number two’ in sales rankings
Apogee’s Hibernian takeover gives it firmer Irish foothold
Hibernian is a major provider of print technology services to both the public and private sector
CenturyLink sells its 57 data centres for $2.15 billion
CenturyLink plans to use the net proceeds to partly fund its acquisition of Level 3 Communications
Ingram’s $6bn Chinese takeaway gets key US approval
Global distributor maintains the deal is still set for completion some time this year after final approvals
Broadcom acquires Brocade for $5.5bn and offloads Ruckus
The whole of Brocade’s IP Networking business is being sold off as Broadcom concentrates on supporting its OEM business
New Dell Software owners spin out Quest and SonicWall
After the $2 billion acquisition is completed new investors give firm nod to the channel going forward
Extreme Networks completes Zebra WLAN unit acquisition
Extreme expects to generate over $115 million in annualised revenue from the acquired assets
Qualcomm buys NXP for £39bn to morph into IoT chip giant
Qualcomm digs deep in order to acquire NXP and create IoT semiconductor powerhouse
Fujitsu opens its kimono to Lenovo in PC deal
But it’s not the lock, stock and barrel deal that many PC watchers perhaps expected
Exertis acquires storage distribution specialist Hammer
Dell, Intel, NetApp, Seagate and Western Digital distie now in the hands of the Irish
Oracle struggling to buy NetSuite as shareholders cling on
Unaffiliated shareholders are so far refusing to sell up and a simple majority of total shares issued is not enough
Micro Focus acquires another American data firm
British titan takes it to the yanks again in expanding data management space
Qualcomm may buy rival chip-maker
Qualcomm may be about to purchase NXP Semiconductors in a multi-billion dollar acquisition
Avast and AVG are one company from this Monday
Avast completes acquisition, including AVG’s expanding reseller business
CityFibre expands fibre footprint with £5m Redcentric buy
CityFibre acquires 137km of new fibre from Redcentric as its quest to be a BT Openreach rival continues
CA acquires BlazeMeter to extend DevOps offering
BlazeMeter’s self-service continuous application performance testing solution is fully compatible with Apache JMeter
Avnet sells Solutions business to Tech Data for $2.6bn
Shake up in global IT distribution market continues after the Chinese Ingram Micro acquisition
Global CSP Intermedia acquired as buying frenzy continues
Intermedia promises greater channel investment and more acquisitions of its own
Extreme Networks captures Zebra WiFi business for $55m
$55 million for $115 million of annualised revenues looks cheap
Ensono acquires UK hybrid cloud MSP Attenda
Another UK cloud specialist bought by the yanks, who’s next with the help of a weak pound?
Intel sells security business as McAfee is re-launched
A new cyber-security business is formed as McAfee returns from the ashes
Britain’s Micro Focus scoops HPE’s software in $8.8bn deal
HPE admits it can’t make its software business work hard enough for its shareholders on its own
