Acquisitions ChannelBiz UK

Sabio Invest in Customer Analytics with Rapport Acquisition

Sabio strengthens customer engagement analytics portfolio with acquisition of Rapport insight and analysis business

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

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

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