Tag Archives: mergers and acquisitions

Cisco Expands Cloud and Hyperconverged Infrastructure Play

Cisco made two major data center announcements Tuesday, unveiling an agreement to acquire IT orchestration startup CliQr Technologies and rolling out a new line of hyperconverged infrastructure systems. Continue reading

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Oracle Acquires Ravello Systems for Reported $500 Million

Workload cloud migration startup Ravello was acquired on Monday by Oracle to ease enterprise adoption of its public cloud. Continue reading

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Chinese Firm Grabs Ingram Micro in $6B Deal, Questions from Partners Abound

In a move that has surprised many, Ingram Micro has entered into a merger agreement with Tianjin Tianhai Investment Company, and will operate under the HNA Group. Here’s the reaction on social media. Continue reading

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Buying a Hosting Company: Part One

The acquisition route may cost you more per customer, but there’s no faster way to grow your company than by acquiring another company. Continue reading

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Three Reasons AWS Just Bought Italian SaaS Firm NICE

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed an agreement to acquire NICE, a software-as-a-service company based in Italy that helps customers optimize and centralize their HPC, cloud and visualization resources. Continue reading

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