IBM adds to its recent major security acquisitions to become a truly one stop shop for the security breach industry
Acquisitions
EC clears £44bn Dell EMC takeover
European Commission follows US Federal Trade Commission in clearing Dell-EMC merger after raising no competition concerns
Foxconn’s £4bn Sharp takeover in danger
Deal could see future iPhones get better screens, but doubts have already been raised following release of ‘new information’
MWC16: BlackBerry buys UK cybersecurity firm
BlackBerry uses acquisition to cement its expanded move into enterprise security consultancy
Excalibur carves a bigger slice of the south west with Devision buy
Company previously bought Bridge Solutions and Emnico Enterprises
Ingram Micro to be acquired by Chinese conglomerate for $6bn
All cash deal leads to suspended share dividend and no questions on financial results
Castle Street acquires hosting and cloud provider C4L for £20.2m
The company announced that it was buying IT solutions firm Selection Services for £30m last month
Western Digital’s acquisition of SanDisk approved
Flash meets flash in £13bn storage deal as European Commission rules that buyout won’t harm competition
Cisco buys IoT specialist Jasper for £960m
Cisco sharpens its focus on the Internet of Things with purchase of Jasper Technologies
EMC faces class action lawsuit to prevent Dell takeover
The proposed legal action claims EMC has mislead shareholders and others over the deal
Convergence Group acquires Networks First
LAN and WAN services to the channel comprehensively covered
Microsoft snaps up UK startup SwiftKey for £174m
Microsoft gains yet another productivity app and AI technology in SwiftKey
HCL Technologies acquires virtualisation solutions firm P2P
Berkshire firm is a Citrix Gold Partner and is being bought by the Indian giant for £8m
Chess makes the right moves for growth
The VAR is on course for more acquisitions in 2016
BT free to acquire EE with no strings says CMA
Today's confirmation however does not reassure everyone, as BT gets on with it
ANS acquires Eison to boost turnover to £60m
Intelligent WANs and SDN to be targeted by expanding hybrid cloud provider
Chess gets £50m in Barclays funding for more acquisition moves
IRW Systems, Parachute IT, ebillz and Integra ICT have been acquired in recent years
EMC prepares layoffs to save £580m
Ahead of the Dell acquisition, EMC will enact a 'reduction in force' throughout 2016 to save cash
Selection Services acquired by Castle Street for £35m
MXC Capital is helping to finance the deal and is taking a stake in Castle Street
Genesys acquires SpeechStorm to bolster self-service offering
Embracing the challenge of personalising the customer experience and managing customer journeys
Truphone buys Internet of Things platform from startup CoSwitched
The technology will allow international companies to use a single IoT management platform to connect devices
NetApp to acquire data centre flash firm SolidFire for $870m
NetApp says it can now fully address all the key all-flash data storage markets
Camworth acquires Cabletec to widen service offering
Camworth plans to relocate its logistics to Cabletec’s premises in Bristol, while keeping its HQ where it is
Intercity acquires Imerja to create larger telecoms and IT firm
Intercity acquired cloud communications, network services and hosting specialist Gage Networks earlier this year
Blue Coat acquires Elastica for $280m to bolster cloud security
Elastica’s CloudSOC provides threat scoring powered by machine learning and user and end-point behaviour modelling
Microsoft boosts cloud data security with Secure Islands acquisition
UBS, OSRAM, Vodafone and Credit Suisse already use Secure Islands technology
Avnet conducts storage expansion with Orchestra
German acquisition will expand EMC storage EMEA sales
Streamwire acquires Apple support specialist EvEnt
The deal includes EvEnt's OptiPlus technical site audit service
HP offloads Tipping Point to Trend Micro for $300m
Trend Micro says the acquisition will still allow it to develop a strategic alliance with HP
Dell confirms $67bn takeover of storage giant EMC
Channel shake-up could be on the cards as Dell heads to the enterprise market in a big way
