Acquisition stories - Page 89

The move gives BlackBerry a chance to survive as a pure software and services company, following years of losses for its hardware business.

Discover Netscout, the hidden gem revolutionising IT monitoring with InfiniStream, the 'big data device' essential for any tech department.

Webroot strengthens cybersecurity leadership with acquisition of CyberFlow Analytics, enhancing ability to address complex threat landscape.

Microsemi boosts board prowess with finance expert Kimberly Alexy, adding over 20 years of industry expertise.

Encompass Digital Media collaborates with Cisco to develop CloudStream, a cloud-based platform for creating broadcast-quality multiscreen streams.

Dell's landmark $67 billion acquisition of EMC would create the world's largest IT product company, knitting together a broad range of IT assets.

Cisco acquires ContainerX to enter the container market, its first acquisition in this rapidly emerging space.

Nutanix acquires PernixData and Calm.io to accelerate its enterprise cloud platform and storage-class memory systems.

As Cisco transitions the business model, the savings from global headcount reductions will be invested to further expand software and services.

Vendors are looking at new technologies to drive long-term growth, including hyperconverged platforms, SDN and hybrid cloud solutions.

AVG has announced its second quarter 2016 financial results, bringing in $105 million ahead of its merger with Avast in the coming months.

HPE continues its investment in big data technology as the company acquires SGI, a data analytics, data management and compute solutions provider.

NSS Labs reveals five out of six DCIPS products earned top marks for performance and security, with the cost of ownership averaging USD $38 per protected Mbps.

Blue Coat enhances Security Analytics with anomaly detection and support for SCADA environments to improve incident response.

AOL and Yahoo join forces in a US$4.8bn deal, their last chance to compete with Google and Facebook in the digital media market.

Kiwi ERP provider Greentree has been snapped up by MYOB, as the business management vendor seeks to drive into larger enterprises.

EMC have announced that its shareholders have approved the Dell merger agreement with 98% of voters in favour.

The Softbank acquisition of ARM Holdings and the Unilever acquisition of Dollar Shave Club signify prospective acquirers buying into disruption.

Multiple vendors, such as Applied Micro, AMD, and Cavium, have built processors for servers and other data center gear using ARM's architecture.

Digital commerce exemplars don't merely convert their product catalogues into eCommerce sites and mobile commerce applications.