Acquisition stories - Page 132

​BlinkMobile's Blink Mobility Platform has won 'The Best Enterprise Mobility Solution' at this year's Cloud World Series Awards ceremony in London.

Unified communications market to reach $75.81bn by 2020, driven by increase in mobile workforce and smartphone demand.

Vocus Communications' acquisition of Amcom passes its final hurdle, receiving court approval, creating a new telecommunications powerhouse.

Big data and advanced analytics adoption has hit tipping point in Australia as organisations seek to leverage technology to innovate and compete.

The number of cellular connected IoT/M2M devices is set to increase from 252 million in 2014 to 908 million in 2019, with wearables driving the growth.

Vocus, WxC's current provider of IP transit (according to the ISP map) will lose out as WxC will have their transit agreements migrated to Vodafone.

Motorola Solutions' Smart Public Safety Solutions and Wynyard Group's analytics software will help public safety quickly gain actionable intelligence.

Microsoft bolsters System Centre and OMS application management across hetrogenous OS' and multiple environments with BlueStripe acquisition.

Cisco is looking to move the company into its next phase of growth, and has revealed the executive leadership team that will action this.

IBM has acquired Blue Box, an OpenStack private cloud specialist, while Cisco has snapped up Piston Cloud Computing in OpenStack battle.

Competition among fixed-line retailers remains strong & the sector is responding positively to consumer demand for better broadband quality and value.

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has completed its acquisition of Pentaho, a data integration, visualisation and analytics company.

Intel's US$16.7 billion acquisition of Altera opens doors to new classes of product in data centre and IoT market segments.

Legacy IT systems, stretched IT budgets and a lack of critical IT skills are just some of issues that are inhibiting government CIOs.

Server shipments record strongest growth in four years on back of cloud demand; massive revenue boost for mainframes – and Lenovo.

UXC Eclipse's investment in Microsoft Dynamics is paying dividends, with the company inking $20 million of retail business in the past four months.

With the launch of Spark's app store last week, the drive for ISPs/telcos to find new sources of revenue was once again on display.

Check Point Software introduces new security gateway for Industrial Control Systems; aims to prevent cyber attacks on critical infrastructure.

Gartner predicts worldwide spending on business process management (BPM) software will grow 4.4% to reach $2.7 billion in 2015.

Fujitsu is making a local play for the IoT market, establishing end-to-end capability in ANZ for its iMotion Edgeware management platform.