Acquisitions stories

The deal will enable HPE to couple its Aruba Edge Services platform with Silver Peak’s software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) platform.More

SecOps NZ has acquired risk management specialist Prima Solutions, and as a result has boosted the company’s information security risk and assurance management practice.More

The new facility will be added to the IOTDC mesh, which is a network of geographically distributed facilities through IOTDC that offers communities integrated data centre services.More

Plan B will take over both operations and management of the facility, while customers will see no difference in operations.More

The move sees Keysight strengthen its presence in the automation space, with the aim to further establish itself in the automated software test market across both the physical and protocol layers and into the application layers.More

The companies say their integration can help customers save up to 90% of their compute and storage cloud expenses, as well as encourage the acceleration of public cloud adoption.More

Thycotic has acquired Onion ID, a privileged access management (PAM) solutions provider, and has added new products to its PAM portfolio to protect enterprise cloud apps and better enable remote workers.More

Executives say the immediate goal of the now-combined companies is to provide stakeholders access to a newly expanded portfolio of security solutions.More

Cisco is eyeing up network intelligence company ThousandEyes for its latest acquisition, building on Cisco’s cloud-based network and application performance portfolio.More

Softomotive’s popular automation software, WinAutomation, will supplement Power Automate to provide more capabilities for RPA desktop authoring.More

VMware says once the acquisition is completed, Octarine’s integration will provide new security features for containerized applications running in Kubernetes, and will enable security capabilities as part of the fabric of the existing IT and DevOps ecosystems.More

The deal, which is set to close on 20 May, reflects Vocus’ confidence in Stuff Fibre’s capabilities, particularly in ‘uncertain times’.More

Zoom has today announced its first-ever acquisition in its nine year history, absorbing Keybase, a secure messaging platform in a bid to up its security game.More

The acquisition paves the way for NetApp's own Virtual Desktop Service, which aims to solve the challenges facing enterprises with a remote workforce, namely issues regarding virtual desktop services and application management.More

The acquisition combines NVIDIA’s computing expertise with Mellanox’s networking technology, and the two companies hope the move will enable customers to achieve higher performance, greater utilisation of computing resources and lower operating costs. More

The acquisition will feed into Verizon’s immersive unified communications portfolio. Primarily BlueJeans’ meeting platform will be integrated with Verizon’s unified communications as a service business.More

The acquisition will see Infor's product design and technology, 68,000 customers and 17,000 global employees under Koch Industries’ leadership.More

Equinix has completed its acquisition of Packet, a bare metal automation platform, for US$335 million. As part of the transaction, the combined company will operate the existing Packet business as Packet, an Equinix company.More

According to BMC, this transaction builds on BMC’s track record of investing in its growth. The acquisition is expected to close in the coming months, subject to customary closing conditions.More

Titan IC Systems develops network intelligence technology that supports search and big data analytics across data centers worldwide. More

Veeam is now officially a US-based company, with the company’s headquarters soon to be relocated from Switzerland to the United States.More

In a 168% premium to its IPO share price in June 2015, Sophos stockholders now receive $7.40 per share, according to the company.More

BluJay Solutions has announced the acquisition of Australia-based Expedient Software as it looks to expand its presence across Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific.More

The news comes barely a week after Accenture announced its acquisition of Icon Integration, another boutique Australian technology consultancy.More