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Symantec sells digital certificate business – good or bad for customers & partners?

Wed, 9th Aug 2017
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Symantec has sold its digital certificate business to DigiCert - the question is what will be the implications? We talk to both sides to find out.
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Silent-Aire breaks into European data centre market with acquisition

Mon, 7th Aug 2017
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Silent-Aire has acquired the Dublin-based manufacture of bespoke air handling equipment, RMI Engineering in a move to establish an EU headquarters.
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Partners Group acquires Civica for not to be sneezed at £1 million

Wed, 26th Jul 2017
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Private equity giant Partners Group snaps up Civica for a hefty £1 billion, bolstering public sector services globally.
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Mastech Digital to acquire InfoTrellis in $55 million deal

Mon, 10th Jul 2017
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Mastech Digital to acquire InfoTrellis' services division for $55m, in deal that will create Mastech InfoTrellis.
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Honeywell adds another provider to multi-vendor solution portfolio

Wed, 21st Jun 2017
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Honeywell recently announced its acquisition of Nextnine, a provider of security management solutions and technologies for industrial cybersecurity.
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Singapore telco snaps $19.4 million investment stake in Accel Systems

Mon, 29th May 2017
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Singapore telecommunications company StarHub is spending S$19.4 million on a 51% stake in IT security provider Accel Systems & Technologies.
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The birth of Cyxtera Technologies: BC Partners and Medina Capital join forces

Fri, 5th May 2017
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BC Partners and Medina Capital announce Cyxtera Technologies' launch, a $2.8bn merger forming a commanding presence in global data centre security.
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A brief history: How Broadcom, Brocade & Extreme Networks got together

Wed, 5th Apr 2017
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In a bold move, Extreme Networks snaps up Brocade's data centre biz from Broadcom for $55m, bolstering its enterprise solution portfolio.
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New company emerges from CSC and HPE Enterprise Services merger

Tue, 4th Apr 2017
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DXC Technology is a new organisation that has been created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of HPE.
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Gentrack to complete $75m acquisition of Junifer Systems

Thu, 30th Mar 2017
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​Gentrack Group recently announced that it has entered into an unconditional agreement to acquire the UK-based Junifer Systems.
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Yahoo CEO forgoes annual bonus and gives it to employees in wake of data breach fallout

Thu, 2nd Mar 2017
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is foregoing her annual bonus and giving it back to employees after the giant data breach that hit the company in 2014.
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Palo Alto Networks snaps up LightCyber for automated behaviour analytics prowess

Thu, 2nd Mar 2017
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Palo Alto Networks has paid $105 million for cybersecurity provider LightCyber, so it can fuse automated behavioural analytics into its own platform.
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2016: The year that was - and the stories that shaped the Aussie channel

Fri, 16th Dec 2016
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Another year older, a little bit wiser? We take a look back at 2016 and the stories that shaped the Australian channel.
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Achieving milestones: The gloves are off for this IT MSP enabler

Wed, 16th Nov 2016
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SolarWinds MSP announced the most rapid integration progress achieved to date, as SolarWinds N-able and LOGICnow transition to a unified brand.
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Why Managed Service Providers must change - or die

Tue, 25th Oct 2016
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The managed service provider (MSP) space is experiencing an explosion of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, with new announcements made daily.
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Introducing Dell Technologies - Dell + EMC officially merged

Thu, 8th Sep 2016
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Dell and EMC merge to form Dell Technologies, now the largest privately-held tech titan, poised to shape the next industrial era.
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Nutanix announces two new acquisitions

Tue, 30th Aug 2016
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Nutanix acquires PernixData and Calm.io to accelerate its enterprise cloud platform and storage-class memory systems.
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AVG publishes 2Q16 results ahead of merger with Avast

Mon, 15th Aug 2016
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AVG has announced its second quarter 2016 financial results, bringing in $105 million ahead of its merger with Avast in the coming months.
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HPE acquires SGI for $275 million to capture global 'data explosion'

Mon, 15th Aug 2016
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HPE continues its investment in big data technology as the company acquires SGI, a data analytics, data management and compute solutions provider.
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Intel boosts data center unit by buying AI startup

Wed, 10th Aug 2016
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Intel acquires AI firm Nervana for $350m, enhancing its potent data centre arsenal and bolstering AI innovation.