Deloitte acquires ServiceNow consultancy firm Odysseus
Odysseus, an Amsterdam based consulting firm focusing on ServiceNow, IT Business and Project Portfolio Management, has been purchased by Deloitte. The 30-strong company will continue as a part of the Technology unit in Deloitte's Consulting branch as of October 2021.
The service of ServiceNow is...
Infor acquired by Koch Industries
The well-known ERP vendor Infor has been acquired by Koch Industries, which in turn is part of Koch Equity Development LLC. Infor will become an independent subsidiary of Koch Industries and the current management team will continue to manage the company from New York.
Infor is primarily known f...
Palo Alto Networks focuses with acquisition Zingbox on IoT security market
Palo Alto Networks has taken over startup Zingbox for 75 million dollars (about 68 million euros). The startup, created at Stanford University, uses machine learning to detect hack attempts.
With this acquisition, Palo Alto Networks is further entering the market for Internet of Things (IoT) securit...
Splunk dives further into application monitoring with acquisition of Omnition
Splunk acquires SaaS startup Omnition, which uses distributed tracing to monitor microservices applications. As a result of the acquisition, Splunk claims to have more than ten engineers with significant expertise in tracing and observations.
The plan is to add Omnition to Splunk's IT and Developer ...
Microsoft acquires maker of infrastructure assessment platform Movere
Microsoft has announced that it will take over Movere. Movere is a software developer that sells an infrastructure assessment platform. The platform allows companies to inventory their technological assets, without spending hours on manual work.
The assessments are particularly important for infrast...
Commvault takes over software-defined storage start-up Hedvig
Commvault has announced that it will acquire Hedvig, a software-defined storage start-up, for $225 million (€203 million). Hedvig sells a software platform that allows administrators to manage different types of data storage infrastructure through a centralized console.
Commvault states that t...
Cloudera acquires Arcadia Data for analytics tools
Cloudera has announced that it wants to take over Arcadia Data, in order to add more analytics tools to its platform. Arcadia Data is a company that sells a business intelligence platform that uses visualizations to make data analysis easier to understand. We don't know how much Cloudera pays for Ar...
Toshiba Memory acquires SSD department LITE-ON
Toshiba Memory Holdings Corporation (TMHC) has announced the acquisition of the SSD business of the Taiwanese company LITE-ON. LITE-ON is a company that supplies optoelectronics, storage, semiconductors and other devices.
LITE-ON started its SSD department in 2008, with the aim of designing, develop...
Teamleader takes over Yadera
Teamleader acquires Yadera, in order to be able to serve medium-sized companies as well as solutions for smaller companies. The suppliers of CRM, sales and project management software still offer these as separate products.
Teamleader recently introduced a number of solutions. These were a mobile ap...
Barracuda Networks strengthens bone protection with InfiSecure technology
Barracuda Networks has adopted the collision detection technology from InfiSecure Technologies. With this technology, the company wants to strengthen its recently announced Advanced Bot Protection.
Barracuda Networks announced its Advanced Bot Protection in June. The solution - which uses artificial...
Cisco acquires customer analytics start-up CloudCherry
CloudCherry, a startup for customer analytics, has been acquired by Cisco. The CloudCherry software helps companies achieve a better customer experience. Cisco will probably use the expertise of the acquisition for its contact center products.
CloudCherry has a platform that allows companies to c...
VMware acquires Pivotal Software
Pivotal Software, a provider of software development platforms, is acquired by VMware. The deal includes an amount of some $2.7 billion (2.4 billion euros), VMware reports in a press release.
With Pivotal Software VMware wants to offer an extensive portfolio of services, tools and products. These...