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Recent Reports

PayPal reignites in-store ambitions with Paydiant buy

Deal Analysis - March 3, 2015

On the heels of major mobile payment acquisitions by Samsung and Google, PayPal has snagged mobile wallet platform provider Paydiant for a reported $280m. With the deal, PayPal is aiming to get closer to merchants and build out its slowly evolving physical world strategy.
Jordan McKee

Violin takes another step forward in its comeback plan for flash storage

Impact Report - March 3, 2015

Violin has spent the last 18 months trying to work itself out of a bad position after its early success in all-flash storage reversed into decline, in part because of limited software functions in its all-flash systems. The company has just completed a major piece of its turnaround plan with a comprehensive software revamp that now includes the killer de-dupe and compression functions that slash costs for all-flash storage.
Tim Stammers

No slowdown in sight for M&A bankers

M&A Insight - March 3, 2015

A surge in technology M&A brought a 43% increase in the dollar value of US technology transactions involving financial advisory firms in 2014. And bankers expect more sell-side mandates this year.
Adam Phipps

Huawei puts ITs eggs into one basket, delivers FusionCloud Omni hybrid cloud

Impact Report - March 3, 2015

To better support the needs of carriers and enterprises journeying toward cloud, Huawei has consolidated its IT products into one Data Center Solution organization and productized its Cascading OpenStack tools.
William Fellows

Connected Data enters business market with private-cloud file sync and share

Impact Report - March 3, 2015

Led by ex-BlueArc and Drobo executives, the startup has secured $30m in VC funding and is targeting Box and Dropbox with a private-cloud alternative for enterprises and SMBs.
Dave Simpson

Hosting partnership, Google Play launch broaden Taqua's voice over Wi-Fi reach

Impact Report - March 3, 2015

A deal with Interop Technologies to offer a hosted version of its voice over Wi-Fi platform and the recent posting of its Android client to the Google Play store will help Taqua reach more operators looking to deliver Wi-Fi calling services.
Rich Karpinski

Cloud services continue to undermine ITO spend

Spotlight - March 3, 2015

With aspirations to deliver ITaaS and business services, sourced internally and externally, enterprise IT departments are beginning to act as brokers. As they do so, the old ITO model is becoming less attractive.
Katy Ring

Colt Group turns in FY2014 results with continued revenue challenges

Impact Report - March 3, 2015

Challenges in voice services and underlying profitability remain - the pan-European managed services provider reported a drop in revenue and decline in EBITDA compared with 2013. Datacenter services were a bright spot, with revenue up 8% in the year.
Jeff Paschke

A new effort is under way to standardize application blueprints

Analyst Note - March 3, 2015

William Fellows

NXP spends $11.8bn on Freescale as automotive and IoT markets beckon

Deal Analysis - March 2, 2015

In the latest deal in a run of giant chip mergers, Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors has scooped up Freescale Semiconductor, a smaller rival based in Austin, Texas. The $11.8bn transaction will create a semiconductor firm with combined revenue of more than $10bn.
John Abbott

Proofpoint acquires Emerging Threats to combat just that

Deal Analysis - March 2, 2015

Proofpoint has inked another deal – its largest yet. Highly automated and cloud-friendly Emerging Threats will add to the acquirer's intelligence capabilities and boost its responsiveness to attacks. Proofpoint is paying $40m in cash and stock.
Wendy Nather Javvad Malik

Telcos step back into the market

M&A Insight - March 2, 2015

Huge deals by telcos helped push M&A spending last year to its highest level in 14 years. Although these buyers took the month of January off, they were back in February. The three largest transactions last month were all telco-related. But there were also signs of broader strength in the market, which was missing at the start of 2015.
Brenon Daly

Brocade adds virtual evolved packet core to its NFV capabilities with Connectem buy

Deal Analysis - March 2, 2015

Less than a month after announcing that it would acquire Riverbed's SteelApp business, Brocade has purchased Connectem, a four-year-old startup that developed virtual evolved packet core technology for LTE operators, in an all-cash transaction.
Christian Renaud Scott Denne

NTT Communications takes on more than just Germany with e-shelter purchase

Deal Analysis - March 2, 2015

When you look under the covers, there is more to this deal than meeting Angela Merkel's data requirements – at the heart of NTT's service-focused strategy is global datacenter growth through acquisition that doesn't stop at Germany.
Penny Jones Kelly Morgan

HP puts a ring on it with $3bn pickup of Wi-Fi partner Aruba Networks

Deal Analysis - March 2, 2015

The company has announced that it will acquire Aruba Networks, the second-largest Wi-Fi vendor. The deal arrives mere months before the scheduled breakup of HP into two separate companies, a breakup that is sure to be complicated and messy.
Christian Renaud Scott Denne

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