Category: Mergers & acquisitions (M&A)
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Symantec acquires PGP and GuardianEdge
by Sandip Kale
-added contribution from Dr. Mitul Mehta Finally, acknowledging long pending customers' requests, Symantec Corp. is entering the encryption market with the twin acquisition of PGP Corp. and GuardianEdge Technologies Inc. Both strongly established vendo… more »
Categories: Security, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A) Tags: data protection suites, dlp, encryption, guardianedge, m&a, pgp, symantec
01/05/10 04:13:31 am,
01/05/10 04:13:31 am, Big Blue tackles Brownfield Networks
by Norman 
Let’s probe behind yesterday’s announcement that IBM is acquiring Intelliden, a privately-owned technology company more »
Categories: IBM, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A), Intellident, Tivoli, Networks, network maintenance, network security, audit, compliance Tags: ibm, intellident, merger, network maintenance
17/02/10 07:34:07 am,
17/02/10 07:34:07 am, Oracle - Sun Microsystems amalgamation plans
by Sandip Kale
Oracle announced on 27th Jan 2010 that it has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in a deal valued at more than $7 billion, a move that transforms the database and business-software giant into a hardware company as well. The European Commission… more »
TelePresence then, telepresence now
by Norman
The latest from Cisco confirms TekPlus' earlier analysis (see the blog posting of 2 October 2009) about the acquisition of Tandberg.In all the high falutin' talk about TelePresence, Cisco always skated round the fact that its system was not compatibl… more »
Categories: Cisco, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A), TelePresence, Tandberg, Multimedia, videoconferencing
10/02/10 12:34:44 pm,
10/02/10 12:34:44 pm, HP buys 3Com. A Bid Too Far?
by Norman
That 3Com (http://www.3com.com/corpinfo/en_US/index.html ) has yielded to what has seemed the inevitable for a long time now, is unsurprising.
There have been plenty of observers who have questioned its market durability. "Cautious in business, bu… more »
Categories: IBM, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, data centre, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A), Procurve, 3Com, Huawei Technologies, H3C, Tipping Point Technologies
12/11/09 02:36:54 pm,
12/11/09 02:36:54 pm, Standards versus proprietary in the videoconferencing arena
by Norman
Cisco (www.cisco.com) has bought Tandberg (www.tandberg.com) in a cash offer valuing the Norwegian company at USD 3 billion. Cisco says the aim is to get Tandberg’s videoconferencing products and capability.
It will flesh out Cisco’s product line,… more »
Categories: Cisco, Microsoft, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A), TelePresence, Tandberg, videoconferencing
02/10/09 09:44:22 am,
02/10/09 09:44:22 am, Another inevitable consolidation
by Norman
Deep in the heart of Texas, Dell and Perot Systems have come together.
To many there must be a sense of natural fulfillment in seeing Dell go down the same path as HP in acquiring a ready-made advanced services and integration company. But first the… more »
Categories: IBM, Hewlett Packard, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A), Dell, Perot Systems, EDS, IBM Global Services
21/09/09 01:24:09 pm,
21/09/09 01:24:09 pm,