Western Digital Announces Acquisition of Upthere
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) and Upthere, Inc. announced today that Western Digital has completed the asset acquisition of Upthere, a leading cloud services company that is providing a new and better way to keep, find and share what’s important and meaningful to consumers. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Cloudera Acquired Fast Forward Labs
Machine learning is an area of interest in every business. It offers organizations of all types the opportunity to move from simply viewing their data to proactively acting upon it.
It is allowing Cloudera, Inc.’s customers to grow revenues through customer insights and pattern recognition, to better connect their products and services to predict problems before they arise, and to protect their businesses by detecting anomalies in their data.
HPE to Acquire Cloud Technology Partners to Strengthen Expertise in Cloud Consulting Services
Businesses today live in a Hybrid IT world. Achieving business outcomes requires putting each workload in the appropriate environment, whether it’s in an on-premises data center, in a private cloud, on public clouds or offered as a SaaS application. And, this environment is different for every organization, dynamically changing with their business needs and workload requirements. We believe most enterprises will operate in this Hybrid IT environment for the foreseeable future.
Western Digital Acquiring Tegile
Western Digital Corp. and Tegile Systems, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement under which Tegile, provider of flash and persistent-memory storage solutions for enterprise data center applications, will be acquired by Western Digital.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The acquisition is expected to close the week of September 4, 2017, upon satisfaction of certain closing conditions as set forth in the definitive agreement between the parties.
Juniper Networks Acquires Security Firm Cyphort
Juniper Networks today said it’s acquiring Cyphort, a security startup that serves mid- and large-size enterprise customers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Santa Clara, California-based Cyphort was founded in 2011. And it’s raised $53.7 million in funding in four rounds, according to Crunchbase.
Symantec to Acquire Fireglass to Bring a Generational Leap Forward in User Protection
Symantec, the world’s leading cyber security company, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Israel-based Fireglass, the leading agentless isolation solution that eliminates ransomware, malware and phishing threats in real-time by preventing potentially harmful content from ever reaching user endpoints or the corporate network. With this acquisition, Symantec further strengthens its Integrated Cyber Defense Platform and dramatically extends the Company’s leadership in Secure Web Gateway and Email protection delivered both on premises and in the cloud.
Teradata Acquires San Diego-based Start-up StackIQ
Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the leading data and analytics company, today announced the acquisition of StackIQ, developers of one of the industry’s fastest bare metal software provisioning platforms which has managed the deployment of cloud and analytics software at millions of servers in data centers around the globe. The deal will leverage StackIQ’s expertise in open source software and large cluster provisioning to simplify and automate the deployment of Teradata Everywhere. Offering customers the speed and flexibility to deploy Teradata solutions across hybrid cloud environments, allows them to innovate quickly and build new analytical applications for their business.
Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Observable Networks, Inc.
The ability to dramatically improve visibility, security and response capabilities across an entire IT surface, including highly distributed branch environments and public cloud infrastructures, is becoming increasingly important as companies and organizations continue their digital transformation. With this in mind, I am pleased to announce Cisco’s intent to acquire Observable Networks, a privately held software company headquartered in St. Louis. Observable Networks provides cloud-native network forensics security applications delivered as a service.
Arcserve Acquires Zetta
Today marks an important milestone toward Arcserve’s transformation of the data protection industry. I am very pleased to announce that we have completed the acquisition of Zetta and that we are now operating as one company.
Arcserve has expanded its cloud capabilities to offer direct-to-cloud backup and disaster recovery as a service (BaaS, DRaaS), making Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) the most complete backup and disaster recovery solution tailored specifically for the needs of the midmarket. More than 2,500 businesses trust Zetta to protect their apps and data, and to ensure rapid recovery in the event of downtime.
HyTrust Acquires DataGravity
HyTrust, Inc., a leading workload security provider, today announced the acquisition of DataGravity, a data visibility and security company, to further automate and enhance security policy enforcement for workload data. The acquisition brings new data discovery and classification expertise that expand HyTrust data security solutions focused on protecting workload data. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but members of the DataGravity team will be joining HyTrust.