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Broadcom Makes 10th Acquisition in Israel with BroadLight Deal
Broadcom announced that it has finalized an agreement to acquire BroadLight for $230 million. The two companies share more than just similar names: both Broadcom and the Israeli-based Broadlight make chips designed for networking purposes, which is why it’s rather easy to tell how the latter’s IP will blend into the company’s existing portfolio. “BroadLight ...
Cisco’s Latest Push Addresses BYOD’s Evolution
Cisco is still very much a networking company–it’s only expanding its horizons, and is actively spilling into some of the newer segments of IT that overlap with its core market. The cloud is one example, and now there’s mobile. The Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, trend is one of several that has been sweeping ...
HP’s Printer Unit to Integrate with PC Group: Rumor
HP has been through a lot of turmoil in the last couple of years, from the huge cuts in R&D budget under Mark Hurd to the prospect of Leo Apotheker spinning off the $42 billion PC-making Personal Systems Group. Today CEO Meg Whiteman is trying to get the hardware giant back on its feet with ...
OnApp Takes on Amazon with a New Breed of Cloud
Amazon Web Services is the titan of the platform-as-a-service space, a status it has achieved thanks to its level of service, maintained by its sheer scale and reach today. As always, however, the IT market is an extremely competitive one, and OnApp is looking to challenge AWS with its new offering. The OnApp Storage Software transforms ...
Tobii Receives Over $20M from Intel Capital, Sees Potential in Mobile, NFC
Simplification is big in the data center, as well as in the consumer devices market. Innovations such as near-field communications are being perfected to stretch some of the boundaries currently limiting the end points in the hands of customers, and in more ways than one. NFC is seeing early adoption in the financial services industry, ...
Zayo Acquires AboveNet in its Biggest Deal Yet
Bandwidth behemoth Zayo has entered into an agreement to acquire AboveNet, another fiber infrastructure company, for a massive $2.2 billion. Zayo is a publicly traded company but its latest investment is not; investors were ecstatic after the news hit and ABVT skyrocketed 13 percent to $83.93. The Wall Street Journal picked up some of the extra ...
CloudBeam Picks HP for Cloud Infrastructure
Data center operator and cloud services provider CloudBeam released a use study today describing the advantages it gained by upgrading its infrastructure to HP 3PAR. CloudBeam ran its hosted CRM, collaboration and storage plans on EMC CLARiiON storage area network before the rip and replace. It wasn’t specified exactly which generation of the now discontinued product ...
SAP May Hold Answer to Oracle’s Fiscal Performance
Database and enterprise solutions giant Oracle will be holding its earnings call on March 20, tomorrow, and the company’s under pressure to show some improvement over the poor results it reported last quarter. Back then the company missed the consensus estimate by 2 cents with a net income of only 52 per share. Analysts expect ...
Broadcom-Emulex Finalizes on Perma Ban
Broadcom filed a lawsuit against competitor Emulex shortly after it declined an acquisition proposal in 2009, over the alleged infringement of two patents registered under the former. The verdict finally arrived in later December last year, when a judge concluded several Emulex products do indeed violate Broadcom IP. Our original coverage can be found here. ...
QLogic Deepens Partnership with Dell, New Switch Options for Force10
Networking equipment maker QLogic announced that its 8200 Series 10Gb Ethernet CNAs and 3200 Series 10GbE network adapters have been certified as being interoperable with Dell’s Force10 S-Series S4810 10/40 GbE switches. The two companies promise that facilities running their gear side-by-side get better management of LAN iSCSI storage and Network File System traffic, in ...
