Acquisitions
Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement. Canadian Web Hosting, Canada's leading web hosting and infrastructure company, announced today that it has acquired datacenter and dedicated server provider eSecureData. eSecureData is based in Vancouver, BC and targets Canadian businesses and IT professionals who are looking for premium datacenter colocation facilities, Canadian dedicated servers, and Canadian Cloud Hosting. eSecureData is a long standing Canadian Infrastructure as a Service provider that has been delivering managed hosting, dedicated servers, colocation and domains to thousands of customers across Canada since 2007. The company is based in Coquitlam, BC and will be merging with Canadian's Web Hosting's industry-best staff and expanding its already impressive datacenter operations...
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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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Grazed from Blue Coat and Elastica.
![]() ![]() 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 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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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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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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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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