Deal Analysis
Taleo buys partner Learn.com to widen the scope of its talent management suite
The SaaS talent management firm has turned to M&A again to help it enter a new market, a year since its last purchase won it a foothold in compensation management. Taleo sees its Learn.com buy as providing the fourth missing piece of its TM suite.
2 Sep 2010
China Martens
Brenon Daly
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Post-Merger IQ
Fluke Networks forms Visual Network Systems to target APM space
The company has formed a new subsidiary entity, Visual Network Systems, from three of its previous acquisitions to focus on network-based application performance management.
2 Sep 2010
Dennis Callaghan
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Deal Analysis
VMware acquires TriCipher for consolidated end-user access management hub
It's no longer business as usual in the identity management world. There's work ahead, but TriCipher's hub-and-spoke architecture will provide the foundation for an end-user access layer in VMware's coalescing platform.
1 Sep 2010
Steve Coplan
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Deal Analysis
Integrien releases VMware-specific product one day, gets bought by VMware the next
Just one day after announcing a version of its Alive performance analytics software for VMware environments, Integrien has been acquired by VMware.
31 Aug 2010
Dennis Callaghan
Rachel Chalmers
Brenon Daly
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Deal Analysis
Can CA make it rain with $200m purchase of authentication-in-the-cloud vendor Arcot?
CA Technologies makes another cloud management move – this time it secures access to the cloud with the acquisition of authentication-as-a-service provider Arcot. It's expensive, but CA is confident that it can make the numbers work.
31 Aug 2010
Steve Coplan
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Deal Analysis
Cisco extends online video reach with acquisition of ExtendMedia
Cisco inks its first content management acquisition, buying ExtendMedia and taking another online video platform provider off the shelf.
31 Aug 2010
Ben Kolada
Jim Davis
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Deal Analysis
Intel's billion-dollar spending spree continues with pickup of Infineon's wireless unit
Having sold off its baseband chip business to Marvell back in 2006, Intel is trying once again to build up a complete cellular chipset platform as it pitches Atom against dominant player ARM.
30 Aug 2010
John Abbott
Chris Hazelton
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Deal Analysis
Citrix Systems buys VMLogix for lab, stage and cloud management
Ever since Citrix bundled VMLogix's software with its Essentials packs, we've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Quest Software's recent purchase of Surgient raised the stakes, but the real target of this deal is VMware.
30 Aug 2010
Rachel Chalmers
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M&A Insight
Wall Street job pays off for Salary.com
Just before the IPO window slammed shut in 2007, tiny Salary.com went public, raising a huge chunk of cash that helped keep it afloat during the Credit Crisis. The Wall Street windfall helped the company stick around to get a decent exit to Kenexa.
2 Sep 2010
Brenon Daly
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M&A Insight
A bidding war (of sorts) between the virtualization vendors
After Citrix opened the week with its first deal in almost two years, VMware matched the transaction and then raised it another one. The two deals in one day brings the total number of acquisitions by VMware to five so far this year.
1 Sep 2010
Brenon Daly
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M&A Insight
Google: picking on the pipeline
For the second time in less than a year, Google has directly targeted the core product of a company that's hoping to go public. That's some pretty sharp competition from a self-described 'Don't be evil' company.
31 Aug 2010
Brenon Daly
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M&A Insight
Winners and losers in data warehousing
In data warehousing, there are winners and there are losers. Greenplum soared as Kickfire sank, and Aster Data could be next to the chopping block.
30 Aug 2010
Ben Kolada
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M&A Insight
A hoarse auctioneer for 3PAR?
The latest bid for the high-end storage vendor pushes its value to $2bn. HP and Dell are now looking at paying a double-digit price-to-sales multiple for 3PAR. Yet neither shows any sign of backing down.
27 Aug 2010
Brenon Daly
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