Trapeze Networks acquires Newbury Networks
Trapeze Networks, a provider of wireless network equipment and management systems, has acquired Newbury Networks, a provider of WLAN location systems. The acquisition will enable Trapeze to deliver a broader set of WLAN products to growing market segments worldwide and to integrate best-of-breed location capabilities into its products. Trapeze has been an OEM partner of Newbury since 2006. Newbury, backed by Idealab of Pasadena, CA, enables enterprises to locate, manage and secure mobile assets over WLANs. A wide range of vertical markets worldwide are currently deploying Newbury's location platform and applications. Trapeze and Newbury share a common vision, strategy and commitment to enable enterprise customers to fundamentally enhance business processes through location-based services for wireless-LANs.
Announcement Date: December 15, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed
Raritan acquires dcTrack Software
Raritan, provider of intelligent power management and secure IT infrastructure management solutions, has acquired the dcTrack data center infrastructure management software from Nassoura Technology Associates, LLC (NTA), a privately held company that provides data center visualization, automation and management software and services. Raritan will integrate dcTrack and its related technologies into Raritan's power management portfolio. Raritan's solutions help IT and facility organizations reduce energy costs and manage data centers more efficiently by providing useful information and insight on many key dimensions of a data center -- including granular information for identifying energy-inefficient servers, wasteful over cooling, circuit breakers at the point of tripping and available rack capacity to add servers. The acquisition of dcTrack will further strengthen Raritan's data center power management capabilities to address customers' energy and operations issues.
Announcement Date: November 19, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed
Fujitsu buys Siemens’ stake in FSC
Technology giant Fujitsu is to buy the 50 per cent stake held by Siemens in the Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) joint venture. Fujitsu Siemens Computers was established on October 1, 1999 as a 50-50 joint venture based in Maarssen, The Netherlands. In just a decade, the company has established a leading position in the EMEA market for IT infrastructure, earning a reputation for quality and innovation in the server, PC, and data storage fields. FSC supplies PCs, servers and other IT hardware in Europe. The move was prompted by a need to reduce expenses at both firms since operating profit at the jointly-owned company represented only 1.6 per cent of total revenue in the past financial year. Another driver behind the sale is Siemens' intention to use the spare cash to concentrate on projects aimed at the energy, industry and healthcare sectors.
Announcement Date: November 4, 2008
Deal Value: €450 Million ($575 Million)
CenterBeam acquires Network Insight
CenterBeam, Inc. has acquired Network Insight, a network management and consulting services firm. Network Insight focuses exclusively on IP network systems integration and managed services to organizations from several hundred users up to Tier I service providers. The acquisition strengthens CenterBeam's position as the leading managed services provider (MSP) to the mid-size market by bringing deeper network design, architecture and management expertise. Additionally, the location in San Diego provides CenterBeam with another network operations center for further redundancy.
Announcement Date: October 28, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed
Digital & Analog Design acquires Spliced Networks and Fasterping
In an effort to better serve customers, Digital & Analog Design has purchased Spliced Networks and Fasterping, via two separate cash deals. Spliced Networks is an open source software company that develops next-generation Linux appliance and data center solutions. In the deal to purchase Spliced Networks, DAD acquired key equipment, personnel and intellectual property assets used to develop, deploy and maintain a wide array of hosted, managed and network services on a national basis. Spliced Networks’ status as an internationally recognized leader in open source development and network security solutions was very appealing to DAD. In a separate acquisition, DAD purchased Fasterping, a managed services provider for the small business market in Cincinnati. In the deal, DAD acquired key equipment, personnel and web services revenue streams.
Announcement Date: October 27, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed
Capita Group buys ABS Network Solutions
Capita Group PLC acquired ABS Network Solutions Ltd, a provider of IP infrastructure platform solutions and maintenance services of Cisco networking products. ABS Network is a provider of IP-based business networking solutions, including network management, unified communications, on-site support and remote assistance. Capita Group PLC provides management support services and business process outsourcing solutions to organizations across the public and private sectors such as administration, information technology, financial, human resources and customer service. The acquisition of ABS Networks will enhance and broaden Capita's position in the network services market. In addition ABSNet will bring Cisco accreditations and capability in emerging technologies, while the strong relationship that they have with Cisco will enable cost savings in spend on equipment across the Capita Group
Announcement Date: October 14, 2008
Deal Value: $23.2 (Cash)
Numerex acquires Ublip
Numerex Corp., a provider of full-service, highly secure machine-to-machine (M2M) network services and solutions, announced that it has acquired Ublip Inc., a fast growing privately held machine-to-machine (M2M) software and services company. The Ublip infrastructure and software enable the rapid creation of web-based M2M applications and, when coupled with existing Numerex network technology and infrastructure, provide a resilient and reliable hosting environment for M2M solutions. Numerex’s mission to provide a full range of comprehensive M2M services to the industry is significantly advanced with the acquisition of Ublip. It gains from an infusion of technology that includes middleware designed to simplify application development and deployment, and 'virtual' hosting architecture. In addition, it picks up have a small group of highly skilled M2M industry experts.
Announcement Date: October 10, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed
TEOCO acquires Vero Systems
TEOCO, provider of cost management and revenue assurance solutions to communications service providers worldwide, acquired Vero Systems, a global provider of margin management products and least cost routing solutions. Vero Systems is a strategic addition to TEOCO’s cost management business. This acquisition will broaden TEOCO’s network cost management offerings to support routing optimization and will accelerate TEOCO’s international strategy. Vero’s Acuité solution enables least cost routing which allows service providers to intelligently and actively control their network costs. Their deep, switch-level expertise is highly sought after by carriers worldwide. This routing optimization expertise, combined with TEOCO’s cost management solutions, will bring service providers high levels of technical innovation in network cost management.
Announcement Date: October 1, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed