Saturday January 11, 2025

IBM Buys Information Management Software Company PSS Systems

IBM is continuing its shopping spree today with the acquisition of PSS Systems, a company that builds an information management software suite. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. PSS Systems’ software helps organizations manage information governance policies across massive amounts of electronic business information while avoiding legal risk, and discovery and data management costs. […]

BMC Software Buys Neptuny’s Software Business

BMC Software has acquired Neptuny’s software business, a European capacity management and IT performance optimization solution provider. The addition of Neptuny’s technology is to enhance BMC’s dynamic Business Service Management (BSM) portfolio and cloud management offerings. Neptuny’s solution provides continuous capacity optimization, which helps organizations balance computing requirements across physical, virtual, cloud and hybrid environments. […]

Interactive Intelligence Buys Latitude Software For $14 Million In Cash

Interactive Intelligence, a provider of unified IP business communications solutions, has acquired Global Software Services, doing business as Latitude Software, a privately-held provider of debt collection software and services. Interactive Intelligence says it purchased 100 percent of Latitude’s stock for approximately $14 million in an all-cash transaction funded from cash-on-hand. On a trailing twelve month […]

CA Buys Capacity Management Software Company Hyperformix

CA Technologies this morning announced that it has agreed to purchase Hyperformix, a provider of capacity management software for dynamic physical, virtual, and cloud IT infrastructures. Deal terms were not disclosed. Capacity management enables customers to discover how physical, virtual, hardware, software, storage, and network resources are being used, and to determine what resources will […]

IBM Buys Data Center Switching Company BLADE Network Technologies For $400M

IBM today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BLADE Network Technologies, a privately held data center switching company based in Santa Clara, California. Financial terms were not disclosed. Update: according to Tech Trader Daily, the transaction is rumored to be valued at roughly $400 million, according to one of the publication’s […]

IBM Buys Data Center Switching Company BLADE Network Technologies

IBM today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BLADE Network Technologies, a privately held data center switching company based in Santa Clara, California. Financial terms were not disclosed. BLADE, founded in 2006, specializes in software and devices that route data and transactions to and from servers; the company provides blade server […]

IBM Buys Data Warehousing Appliance Maker Netezza For $1.7 Billion

Data warehouse appliance company Netezza had been rumored to being close to getting acquired for a while, and this morning it turned out IBM is the one on the buying side. Big Blue is acquiring the company in cash transaction at a price of $27 per share or at a net price of approximately $1.7 […]

IBM Buys OpenPages To Spice Up Its Business Analytics Portfolio

IBM has agreed to purchase OpenPages, a privately-held software company based in Waltham, MA that helps companies identify and manage risk and compliance activities across the enterprise through a single management system. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the acquisition is subject to regulatory clearances and other customary closing conditions. OpenPages has raised funding, although […]

HP Continues Shopping Spree; Buys Security Software Company Arcsight For $1.5B In Cash

As rumored yesterday, HP has signed an agreement to buy security software company Arcsight for $1.5 billion, or $43.50 per share. This acquisition follows HP’s $2.3 billion acquisition of data storage company 3PAR. Arcsight provides security and compliance management software that identifies and mitigate business risk for enterprises, MSSPs and government agencies. The software products […]

VMware Goes Shopping; Buys Cloud App Authentication System TriCipher

At VMworld today, VMware has announced that it has acquired two enterprise companies today–IT performance analytics company Integrien and TriCipher, an authentication system for cloud hosted SaaS applications. Both acquisitions are expected to close in the third quarter of 2010. Financial details of the transactions were not disclosed. TriCipher’s myOneLogin is an on-demand identity and […]