All Posts Tagged With: "acquisition"
VMware Buys Blue Lane (Updated)
VMware has agreed to acquire Blue Lane Technologies, which provides solutions that secure virtual and physical data centers.
9Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedHP Buys LeftHand Networks For $360 Million In Cash
HP today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks, a provider of storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions who recently came out with some impressive numbers.
1Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedKACE Buys Into App Virtualization Market With Computers In Motion Acquisition
KACE, the systems management appliance company, yesterday announced its entry into the application virtualization market with its acquisition of Computers in Motion. Financial details of the acquisition are not being disclosed.
11Sep2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedCitrix To Jump On Cloud Wagon, But How?
Tarry is hinting at a “big” announcement that Citrix will make on September 15th. He reveals nothing, apparently having signed an NDA, but hints that the news concerns his topic of focus of lately. An acquisition? A major update of their product line?
10Sep2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | ContinuedWhat’s All This Talk About VMware Buying Red Hat?
We were looking at the swirling rumors coming in about a potential acquisition of Red Hat by VMware, and ultimately decided not to cover the rumor because … well because it seems so irrational. But does it?
22Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 3 comments | ContinuedSurgient Partners With Capgemini, IPO or Acquisition Imminent?
Capgemini, provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, announced today that Capgemini Financial Services USA has signed an alliance agreement with Surgient. Talks about a future acquisition or IPO are percolating.
13Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedSymantec Acquires nSuite Technologies, Moves Into Endpoint Virtualization Management
NetworkWorld is reporting that Symantec has agreed to acquire nSuite Technologies, a small firm specializing in virtualization solutions for the healthcare industry, for an undisclosed amount in cash. Symantec aims to build out its portfolio of virtualization security and management technologies.
5Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedThere We Go Again: EMC Shares Rise On Acquisition Rumors
This is one rumor that just keeps coming back: Reuters is reporting that EMC shares rose as much as 6.3 percent yesterday on market speculation that the world’s largest maker of corporate storage equipment could be acquired. The company stills holds a majority stake in virtualization juggernaut VMware.
31Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedDouble-Take Software Picks Up emBoot for $10 Million in Cash
Double-Take Software announced (PDF) today the acquisition of emBoot, experts in network booting technology. emBoot network boot technologies allow organizations to easily assign and re-assign computing workloads to any available Windows or Linux physical servers or desktops or any virtual machine in their environment.
30Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedBreaking: VMware To Acquire B-hive Networks
VMware today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire B-hive Networks, a privately-held application performance management software company with headquarters in San Mateo, California and principal R&D facilities in Herzliya, Israel.
28May2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIBM / Cisco Eyeing Acquisition of Citrix?
Nasdaq traders bid up Citrix stock Tuesday on takeover rumors that have either IBM or Cisco purchasing the application delivery vendor. Citrix’s stock went from a low of $30.60 Tuesday to a high of $33.75. Rumors of Citrix being purchased fueled the higher trading prices, says Jeffrey Gaggin, an enterprise software analyst for Avian Securities.
9Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedFollow-up On Our April Fool’s Joke On Sun Acquiring Parallels
By now, you may have heard about the prank post we published on April Fool’s Day about Sun acquiring Parallels for $ 205 million. While the story was obivously fake, many people started speculating about its authenticity and - which was far more interesting - about the possibility of Parallels ever selling, and if so, at what price?
7Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | Continued
