Brocade is building diversity into its current business, moving further away from the SAN switching with which it made it's name. Today, Brocade completes their acquisition of Ruckus Wireless, giving…
IBM buys The Weather Company..
After announcing a partnership earlier this year, IBM now announces it's intent to acquire the business and prediction elements of the Weather Company. The Weather Channel, the TV presence that…
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…
Arctic Fibre reduces latency on route between Japan and UK – via the North Pole
Arctic Fibre is planning a new 24Tb/s cable network that will connect Tokyo in Japan and Europe, via the Americas. This cable aims to shave off 24 milliseconds of latency…
Lenovo completes acquisition of Motorola from Google.
Lenovo issued a press-release yesterday to confirm that they have acquired Motorola Mobility from Google . Motorola Mobility was the handset business created when Motorola split in early 2011, before…
LinkedIn now available on IPv6
A blog post from the LinkedIn engineering page announces that they've permanently enabled IPv6 on their infrastructure. I am guessing they took a phased approach, with services migrated to IPv6…
NTT buys Virtela, orchestrating network growth
Virtela are being acquired by NTT Communications, the ICT portion of NTT . This acquisition will help NTT Com grow their network infrastructure, currently based around Juniper T-series routers. The…