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Rackspace Expands Cloud Services With Datapipe Deal

Responding to what it says is growing customer demand for overseeing multiple clouds at scale, managed services specialist Rackspace said it is acquiring cloud rival Datapipe. While terms of ...Full Article

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Western Digital Buys Flash Vendor Tegile

Consolidation in the enterprise storage sector continues with Western Digital Corp.'s acquisition of Tegile Systems, a provider of flash and persistent memory storage in datacenters. The deal announced Tuesday ...Full Article

Eyeing IoT Expansion, SoftBank Buys ARM

Chip intellectual property vendor ARM Ltd. is being acquired by Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank Group in a bid to provide more of the semiconductor technology underlying future networks of ...Full Article

IBM Bolsters Security Unit With Latest Cyber Deal

IBM moved to beef up its ability to respond to cyber attacks through the acquisition of "incident response" specialist Resilient Systems Inc. The deal underscores growing security concerns as ...Full Article

Pivot3 Adds Dynamic Provisioning With NextGen Deal

The convergence of the hyper-convergers continues with infrastructure specialist Pivot3's deal to acquire flash array startup NexGen Storage Inc. Privately held NexGen, Louisville, Colo., was spun out a year ...Full Article

Cybersecurity Merger Combines Spycraft, Data

Aiming to augment its virtualized platform for cyber defense with what it calls an "intelligence-led approach" to cyber security, FireEye Inc. has completed its acquisition of privately-held iSight Partners, ...Full Article

Storage Consolidation Quickens With NetApp-SolidFire Deal

The consolidation of the storage sector gained momentum at the end of 2015 with NetApp Inc.'s deal to acquire all-flash startup SolidFire for $870 million in cash. The deal ...Full Article

IBM Targets Enterprise Video with Clearleap Deal

Unstructured data in the form of video continues to make inroads in large enterprises as it becomes as a service as well as source of business intelligence. With that ...Full Article

Docker Closes App Gap With Tutum Acquisition

Seeking to bridge the gap between application development and production deployment, container leader Docker Inc. said this week it has acquired Tutum Inc., a two-year-old developer of a cloud ...Full Article

Red Hat Acquires DevOps, Automation Startup Ansible

The growing emphasis on DevOps and IT automation as vendors seek to provide "frictionless IT" to ease the transition to hybrid cloud infrastructure has prompted open source leader Red ...Full Article