Acquisitions
VMware Quietly Picks Up Tungsten Graphics
It’s not the first time VMware quietly acquires a company (remember Blue Lane?). Now it appears as the virtualization juggernaut has also picked up Tungsten Graphics as recently as last month.
15Dec2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedTechTargets Buys The Brian Madden Company
In case you haven’t heard yet, congratulations are in order for The Brian Madden Company, as they’ve been acquired by TechTarget, the media company behind tech sites like IT Knowledge Exchange, NotebookReview.com and LabMice.net.
21Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIBM To Snap Up Cross-Platform Virtualization Specialist Transitive
IBM today announced it plans to acquire Transitive Corporation, a privately held technology company headquartered in Los Gatos, California, with a research and development team in Manchester, United Kingdom. Financial terms were not disclosed.
19Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedRackspace Acquires Cloud Providers Slicehost And Jungle Disk
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Rackspace Hosting today
announced it has acquired privately owned VPS provider
Slicehost, and storage provider
Jungle Disk. (hat tip to
TechCrunch)
The purchase price of the combined acquisitions is approximately $11.5 million payable in cash and stock, with the potential for up to $16.5 million in additional payouts of cash and stock based on certain performance criteria.
Rackspace [...]
Intel Picks Up NetEffect for $8 Million
Intel Corporation today announced its acquisition of the assets of NetEffect, a network connectivity solutions company specializing in Ethernet products and technologies for server compute clusters.
15Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedNovell Buys BSM Tools Vendor Managed Objects
Novell today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the business service management leader Managed Objects. The acquisition will extend Novell’s portfolio of data center solutions by adding tools to provide a unified view of all information and workloads.
15Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVMware 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 | 2 comments | ContinuedDouble-Take Software Releases netBoot/i and sanFly As Result of emBoot Acquisition
Double-Take Software today announced the release of its netBoot/i and sanFly products. Together, they can provide a centralized means of booting and managing servers and desktops from iSCSI storage area networks (SANs).
8Oct2008 | 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 | ContinuedKVM Lives On At Red Hat, So Now What?
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Over a year after the first big Open Source Virtualization acquisition, Citrix Acquiring Xensource, the next industry shaking acquisition is a fact. Red Hat has reeled in Virtualization startup Qumranet, While RedHat had already announced that they were going to support both KVM and Xen in their product range , taking [...]
Teksys Acquires Technology Made Simple Assets
Teksys has made good its acquisition spree promise by acquiring the assets of Technology Made Simple (TMS).
23Sep2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedPHD Technologes “Acq-hires” Xtravirt Co-founder Alex Mittell
PHD Technologies, provider of the esXPRESS data protection solution for virtualized infrastructures, today announced the acquisition of UK-based Xtravirt’s suite of virtualization products.
16Sep2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued![[image]](http://mowser.com/img?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.mofuse.com%2Fimages%2Fbadges%2Fbadge_blue.png)
