Acquisitions
Grazed from Fusion and Fidelity Voice and Data Announcement.
Fusion, a leading provider of cloud services, announced today that it has acquired Fidelity Voice and Data ("Fidelity"). Beachwood, Ohio-based Fidelity provides cloud voice, cloud connectivity, security, data center and cloud storage services to approximately 2,000 small, medium, and large business customers in the Midwest and throughout the U.S. Fusion expects to complete the integration of Fidelity by the end of the second quarter of 2016. Total consideration in the transaction, which closed on December 8, 2015, was $30.0 million consisting of $28.5 million in cash and $1.5 million in Fusion common stock. The cash portion of the consideration was funded via Fusion's existing bank credit facility and its cash balances. The transaction is immediately accretive to Fusion, with substantial opportunity for cost savings through elimination of redundancies. Fidelity Acquisition Highlights
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Grazed from Logicalis Announcement.
With an annual turnover of approximately US$50 million Thomas Duryea employs 125 staff in its data centre and mature cloud services business, with capabilities across EMC, Dell, NetApp, VMware and Microsoft.
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Logicalis, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, today announced it has acquired Thomas Duryea Consulting, a leader in designing, building and deploying data centre, data management, enterprise information systems, systems management and cloud environments for mid-sized and large enterprises.
Grazed from Blue Coat and Elastica.
  Blue Coat Systems, Inc., a market leader in enterprise security, announced today that it has agreed to acquire Elastica, Inc. for $280 million. Enterprises are finding that traditional security approaches simply cannot deliver in the cloud generation. Rapid adoption of cloud applications has created unprecedented security risk for the enterprise. Increasingly, enterprise users transact business through cloud-resident applications instead of applications managed by the CIO. The mixed use of cloud and on-premise applications has frustrated the enterprise's ability to comprehensively manage its security posture. With the acquisition of Elastica, Blue Coat solves this problem, offering a global security platform that provides visibility, control and data-level security across cloud, on premise and hybrid cloud environments, making it the only security company to deliver on the requirements of a post-infrastructure world. Blue Coat has aggressively engaged in defining the future of cloud security by investing over $500 million in organic and inorganic development in recent years. This work was embarked upon to empower customers as they redefine their network and security models for the cloud generation. By combining Blue Coat's industry leading on- and off-premise threat defense and cloud data protection with Elastica's Cloud Access Security and Analytics, Blue Coat stands alone in providing the industry's first solution to deliver today's cloud generation security requirements.
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Grazed from IBM.   IBM today announced that it has acquired Gravitant, Inc., a privately held company that develops cloud-based software to enable organizations to easily plan, buy and manage, or “broker,” software and computing services from multiple suppliers across hybrid clouds. With such capabilities, mixed environments of private and public clouds can begin to be integrated and digitally managed as one for greater performance and efficiency. With the Gravitant solutions everyone from IT managers to authorized employees can review and purchase compute and software services from different suppliers, as well as compare capabilities and pricing, all through a single, central console. Once purchased, the technology can be offered as a service and managed from the same console for greater efficiency and visibility into how the services are being used.
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Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Claire Hopping.
IBM is looking to bolster its hybrid cloud and enterprise computing services to make them more attractive for decision makers who want to embrace the cloud by opening up their infrastructure. Doing so allows employees to use services hosted on-premise, on public cloud services, and those running on IBM's own private cloud servers...
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Grazed from FirstPost. Author: Editorial Staff.
"The combined company will be ideally positioned to capture the growth opportunities created by the rapidly evolving storage industry," said Steve Milligan, chief executive officer, Western Digital. Both companies have strong R&D and engineering capabilities and over 15,000 combined patents issued or pending worldwide...
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Hard-disk drive maker Western Digital is buying SanDisk for about $19 billion. The deal is expected to increase Western Digital's ability to make flash memory storage chips used in smartphones and tablets. Western Digital needs access to SanDisk's NAND technology to better compete in the market for solid-state drives used in cloud computing, data centres, smartphones and laptops. With this, Western Digital said it will double its addressable market and expand its participation in higher-growth segments.
Grazed from Telegraph. Author: Christopher Williams.
Wired magazine, Silicon Valley’s chronicler-cum-cheerleader, went so far as to curse Oracle, along with Dell, EMC, IBM, Cisco and HP, as a member of technology “walking dead”. Speaking before rumours of the takeover emerged, Mr Hurd insisted his company was making great strides in the cloud as the large and conservative IT departments with which it trades begin to adopt the new way of working...
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The joint-chief executive of Oracle, Mark Hurd, has dismissed suggestions that the IT giant is under pressure from the same forces that prompted Dell’s audacious $67bn takeover of EMC. That deal, the biggest in the history of the industry, has prompted claims that many of the powerhouses of corporate IT are now facing an existential threat from the rise of ‘cloud’ services; software delivered over the internet and paid for by subscription.
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Thomas Claburn.
The combined company will be privately held, freeing it from the regulatory scrutiny and earnings pressure faced by public companies. VMware, mostly owned by EMC, will remain a separate publicly traded company. On a conference call for the media, Joe Tucci, CEO of EMC, acknowledged that the IT industry is going through a transformation, and the traditional IT business is being disrupted...
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Dell's planned acquisition of cloud computing and storage company EMC for $67 billion is the largest technology industry acquisition to date. But the deal is significant beyond its monetary value. It underscores the turmoil among traditional IT vendors as enterprise computing moves from hardware and software products to subscription-based cloud services.
Grazed from NWR. Author: Brian Anderson.
EMC is the world’s second largest server company, and has a big presence in data analytics, big data, security, and other software sectors. According to insiders, Dell is offering $33 dollars per share to buy EMC, a substantial premium over the $28 dollars the stock closed at last week. In total, the deal would be worth about $40 billion dollars...
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Grazed from Reuters. Author: Mike Stone.
The terms being discussed were not known, but if the deal goes through it would top Avago Technologies' $37 billion offer for Broadcom. EMC has a market value of about $50 billion. Dell is also in talks with banks to finance an all-cash offer for EMC, the person told Reuters on condition of anonymity as the talks were confidential...
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