Oracle announced on Monday that it has agreed to pay $1.7 billion for Acme Packet, a network equipment vendor that …
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Qualcomm plans to reject Broadcom’s $103B acquisition bid
US chipmaker Qualcomm is reportedly drawing up plans to reject rival Broadcom’s $103 billion bid as early as this week.1 3514
IBM buys Star Analytics software
In an effort to add more performance management muscle to its line of analysis software and services, IBM has announced …
Cisco to buy Cognative Security
Cisco announced on Tuesday that it plans to acquire Czech security vendor Cognitive Security, in a deal that will be …
Western Digital acquires Arkeia
As it looks to capitalise on growing storage demands from small and medium-size companies, Western Digital has acquired data protection …
Cisco makes fourth acquisition in a month
Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire BroadHop, a developer of network management servers and software for carriers. Terms of the acquisition …
Dell to buy data-protection vendor Credant
Dell has made a deal to acquire data-protection vendor Credant Technologies and plans to add the company’s technology to its …
Oracle buys DataRaker for ‘big data’ analysis
Oracle is planning to buy DataRaker in a move that will give it a cloud-based platform for analysing data from …
Juniper buys SDN startup for $176M
Juniper Networks this week acquired Contrail Systems, a startup that makes controllers for software-defined networks, for $176 million in cash and …
Dell’s acquisitions not yet paying dividends
Dell’s effort to move away from PCs into enterprise products has been slow as the company battles a challenging economy …
Cisco to acquire cloud vendor Meraki for $1.2B
Cisco revealed yesterday it intends to acquire Meraki, a vendor of technology for cloud based management of wireless LAN, security …