Symantec have made a grab for BlueCoat Systems. Symantec's press release wants to portray this as an attempt to redefine cybersecurity for the future. The boards of both companies agree…
Ipanema Technologies acquired by InfoVista
Yesterday Ipanema Technologies was acquired by InfoVista, with an announcement in this press release. Given that InfoVista doesn't have an Application Performance Guarantee solution in its portfolio, it's unlikely that…
Bain Capital to take Blue Coat from Thoma Bravo
Venture investment company Bain Capital are taking Thoma Bravo's Blue Coat. The deal to acquire BlueCoat is for $2.4bn cash, and will close in first half 2015. Bain is preparing…
Purple and Blue? Completed Packeteer and BlueCoat merger information
So Packeteer and BlueCoat have done the deed (as covered in my initial post Purple and Blue - Packeteer and BlueCoat), and Packeteer is now "A BlueCoat Company". Quick take-aways…
Purple and Blue? Packeteer and BlueCoat
So there's loads of stuff on the net about the upcoming merger between BlueCoat and Packeteer. I'm going to add my own 2p to the thoughts, as I think that…
Packetshaper and PolicyCentre reconnections.
The large legal organization which I do some work for has had some issues recently.. for some reason the PolicyCentre for their Packetshaper environment has stopped responding (it can be…