Samsung has completed the sale of its printer business to HP Inc for $1.05bn. (HP Completes Acquisition of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Printer Business). This completes a deal announced in…
Extreme buys Brocade data centre switching assets direct
Extreme has announced that they have closed a deal direct with Brocade , rather than wait for the Broadcom acquisition. (Extreme Networks Completes Acquisition of Brocade's Data Center Networking Business). This…
Brocade and Broadcom delay merger until November 30
A year to the date of the original merger announcement Broadcom to buy Brocade for $5.9bn, both Brocade and Broadcom have announced a delay in their merger. The Committee on Foreign…
Rackspace announces intent to acquire Datapipe
Rackspace announce their intent to acquire Datapipe. This will make Rackspace a global leader in multi-cloud managed services, as well as hosting and private cloud provision.
Viptela to accelerate Cisco’s intent vision.
Cisco have announced that they have completed Viptela's acquisition, with a press-release that indicates this fits within their intent-based networking strategy announced last week. As predicted, the value of the…
SDxCentral: Sandvine brought by Private Equity to be merged with Procera
SDxCentral reports that the venture capital company which owns Procera Networks is purchasing all remaining stock in Sandvine Networks to merge them together. Francisco Partners and PNI, affiliate companies are…
Cisco announces intent to acquire Observable Networks
Cisco announces its intention to acquire privately held Observable Networks. Observable Networks was founded in 2011. Cisco says that Observable will help extend their Stealthwatch platform. The Observable Networks team…
Digital Realty to acquire DuPont Fabros Technology
In the continuing merger of data centre companies, the next round is upon us. Digital Realty (DLR) and DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT) will become one, the acquisition creating a $7.6…