Articles about Acquisition

CA piles into API management with Layer 7 acquisition

If stuff is moving to the cloud, you might as well own the transfer point

'Brit Bill Gates' was powerless to stop HP's Autonomy acquisition

Lynch suggests HP mega-bucks forced marriage

SCC bulging with cash, plans acquisition spree

Rigby clan wave bye to SDG arm, pocket £220m in cash

Hitachi Data Systems on the acquisition trail again

Shoden buy to create make mega data-systems beast

Lowering costs and cutting complexity through consolidation

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Softsource gains edge through HP Converged Infrastructure and 3PAR storage technology

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Distie acquisition helps Tech Data beat the street

Tech Data increased sales for the three months ended 31 October 2010 by 9.2 per cent to $6.16bn. The distie giant's profits for the period were up to $81m, compared to $65.1m for the same period last year. This gives earnings per share of $1.07, compared to 84 cents in 2009. Operating margin was 1.31 per cent, compared to 1.15 …

Dell to make cloud computing acquisition

Reuters reports that Michael Dell will announce a cloud computing acquisition later today. Dell is also going to build up a tablet computer product line, spreading out from the 7-inch and 5-inch Streaks launched in September. Michael Dell was speaking at an event in Hong Kong. Dell lost out to HP in a bidding battle for 3PAR, …

Cisco to acquire services management firm SolveDirect

First partially funds, then gobbles up management toolmaker

Fujitsu looks to blast cloud silos with RunMyProcess buy

Silicon Valley to be site of new cloudy hub

SeaMicro acquisition: A game-changer for AMD

AMD’s sudden purchase of SeaMicro came out of the blue on Wednesday afternoon (West Coast US time) and was followed by a conference call with CEO Rory Read, SeaMicro co-founder Andrew Feldman and Lisa Su, AMD’s newly dubbed head of Global Business Units. This is a purchase that has the potential to put AMD back into the …

Oracle grabs Tekelec for telco assault

Oracle has added another network-focused tech company to its business as Ellison & Co. try to takeover the IT stacks of telecommunications companies. The acquisition of Tekelec was announced on Monday, and follows Oracle buying unified communications specialists Acme Packet for $2.1bn in early February. Oracle will add Tekelec' …

HP re-elects all directors

Billions lost, board absolved

Dixons Retail flogs Equanet to serial swallower Kelway

IT supplier downs mid-market & public sector firm after one-year fast

HP shareholders advised to give chairman Ray Lane the boot

Lane should have poked around a bit in the Autonomy deal

Avnet Technology Solutions swallows Pepperweed

US-based HP software and services MSP acquired by distie

Dell tried gobbling doomed Brit IT giant 2e2 for £350m, say insiders

Exclusive Its backers 'wanted £400m', then the biz imploded

Acer makes play for the cloud with iGware acquisition

Internally troubled Taiwanese giant belches up $320m

Avnet waves farewell to John Toal ahead of Magirus gobble

Rayat takes the helm, sets course for Ambitious-land

Oracle acquires Nimbula, buys way into open clouds

Ellison & Co. to serve up cloud control freak with lashings of open source

Sirius to top $1bn in sales with MSI Systems acquisition

UK Serious Fraud Office queues up to probe HP's Autonomy allegations

Insight Enterprises operating profits tumble down back of sofa

Advanced Computer Software gulps down Computer Software Holdings

Attachmate acquisition stalls Novell's Q1

Claranet gulps down rival STH in managed services merge

Ingram Micro gets 'negative' mark for risky Brightpoint slurp

Dell chief biz gobbler Johnson flees for hedge-fund Blackstone

Infosys gobbles Lodestone for £218m

Former 2e2 director Marke rocks up at Daisy Group

Acquisitive telco services player Daisy Group has created a chief technology officer role for former 2e2 director Nathan Marke. Marke was CTO at 2e2 for nearly four and a half years from August 2008 until the Berkshire-based integrator bit the dust earlier this year. Prior to that he was sales director at Prime Business …