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Citrix Acquires Cloud.com: An Analysis

Citrix Acquires Cloud.com: An Analysis

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 12, 2011

Citrix (previous CloudAve coverage), the virtualization player who is gaining some decent traction recently, today announced the acquisition of Cloud.com (previous CloudAve coverage), the open source cloud platform player with considerable traction on the side of Telcos, Service providers and even enterprises. Initially, Citrix will push the Cloud.com product lines and Citrix branded versions will […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged abiquo, acquisition, azure, azure appliance, citrix, cloud platform, cloud.com, cloupia, federated clouds, iaas, insights, m&a, microsoft, nimbula, open source, opensource, openstack, System center 5, vcloud director, vmops, vmware | 13 Responses

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Terracotta Is Software AG's PaaS Play?

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Terracotta Is Software AG’s PaaS Play?

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 23, 2011

Software AG, the German software vendor with focus on business users, today announced the acquisition of Terracotta, the company behind distributed Java cache called Ehcache, signaling their intention for a serious cloud play. The details of the deal are unknown but it is a smart move by Software AG because Terrecotta has great expertise in […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged insights, m&a, paas, paasfuture, platform as a service, softwareag, terracotta | 1 Response

Microsoft's Skype Acquisition: My Immediate Concerns

Microsoft’s Skype Acquisition: My Immediate Concerns

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 9, 2011

Kara Swisher of BoomTown has confirmed that Microsoft has finalized the deal to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion. According to her Microsoft will announce the news early in the morning tomorrow. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier tonight that Microsoft–in what would be its most aggressive acquisition in the digital space–was zeroing in on buying […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged briefs, Lync, m&a, microsoft, Office 365, skype | 2 Responses

Salesforce Acquires Radian6 To Help Their Customers Become Socially Adept

Salesforce Acquires Radian6 To Help Their Customers Become Socially Adept

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 30, 2011

Salesforce.com (see previous CloudAve coverage) today announced that they are acquiring Radian6, a company helping organizations monitor and engage with their customers on social media, for $326 Million to boost the social intelligence of their products like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Chatter and Force.com. Anyone who had seen the demo of their Service Cloud 3 […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, insights, m&a, radian6, salesforce, salesforce.com, scrm, Service cloud 3, social media

Why Verizon's Acquisition Of Terremark Is Not Exciting

Why Verizon’s Acquisition Of Terremark Is Not Exciting

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 28, 2011

Yesterday, Verizon announced that they are acquiring the cloud provider Terremark for $1.4 Billion According to Datacenter Knowledge, Verizon will acquire colocation and cloud hosting provider Terremark for $1.4 billion in a deal that will accelerate the telecom provider’s push into cloud computing. Verizon will pay $19.00 in cash for each share of Terremark, about […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged federated clouds, insights, m&a, telcos, telecom, terremark, verizon

Acquisitions, Trust And Cloud Services

Acquisitions, Trust And Cloud Services

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 10, 2011

Last week, Salesforce.com acquired the web conferencing provider DimDim for $31 Million. Immediately after the news was out, DimDim sent a mail telling their users that free and month by month subscription plans will end by 15th March, 2011. Those with annual subscription will be allowed to continue till the end of their subscription period […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged acquisition, cloud computing, dimdim, iaas, insights, m&a, paas, public clouds, risks, saas, salesforce, salesforce.com | 3 Responses

Salesforce.com Acquires DimDim

Salesforce.com Acquires DimDim

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 6, 2011

Image via CrunchBase Salesforce.com (see previous CloudAve coverage) today announced that it is acquiring DimDim, a low priced Webex competitor, for approximately 31 Million in cash. DimDim was founded in 2007 with its development office in Hyderabad, India. They offered real time collaboration service with video, presentation, whiteboard, etc.. I have been using/following DimDim ever […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged acquisition, briefs, chatter, collaboration, dimdim, freemium, gotomeeting, m&a, salesforce, salesforce.com, video collaboration, webex | 4 Responses

Rackspace Acquires Cloudkick Getting Ready For A Federated Clouds Future

Rackspace Acquires Cloudkick Getting Ready For A Federated Clouds Future

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 16, 2010

Rackspace, a leading player in the traditional hosting world with some level of difficulty gaining traction in the cloud based world, today announced the acquisition of Cloudkick, one of the cloud management vendors with a pretty dashboard having HTML 5 based 3D server visualization. Rackspace is mum on the details of valuation. Interestingly, this is […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloudkick, m&a, Managed cloud services, managed services, rackspace, Rackspace Cloud | 2 Responses

Foxmarks, Xmarks, LastPass, Xpass, LastX, X%^&% Quick Rant

Foxmarks, Xmarks, LastPass, Xpass, LastX, X%^&% Quick Rant

By Zoli Erdos on December 2, 2010

Warning: I think I’m becoming a curmudgeon – except that title has until now been reserved for somebody else .   But I still have doubts about the recent transaction: LastPass acquired Xmarks. I really liked Xmarks – when it was Foxmarks.  A simple bookmark synchronization service that would keep your Firefox up-to-date no matter where […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Security | Tagged acquistion, bookmark sync, bookmarks, facebook, firefox, foxmarks, lastpass, m&a, password sync, privacy, Security, sharing, social, synchronization, wikileaks, xmarks | 1 Response

Quick Thoughts: Dell Acquires Boomi

Quick Thoughts: Dell Acquires Boomi

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 2, 2010

Boomi (see previous CloudAve coverage here), the Pennsylvania based cloud services integration provider, is acquired by Dell today. Ever since IBM acquired Cast Iron, there were speculations that Boomi could be the next in the block and it has come true today. Dell has been building up the speculation machine on a possible cloud acquisition […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged analysis, boomi, cast iron, dell, jitterbit, m&a, mergers and acquisitions, system integrator | 1 Response

EMC Shows That It Understands Enterprise BI/Big Data Game With Greenplum Acquisition

EMC Shows That It Understands Enterprise BI/Big Data Game With Greenplum Acquisition

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 6, 2010

Today EMC surprised the industry with its announcement that it is acquiring the privately held California based Greenplum Inc., a leading player in data warehousing space with a successful big data platform with superior business analytics. EMC is planning to use this acquisition to form a new data computing product division within EMC’s Information Infrastructure […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged BI, big data, Business Intelligence, cloud computing, emc, greenplum, m&a

How Safe is Your Social Media Investment?

How Safe is Your Social Media Investment?

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 1, 2008

Image by via CrunchBase Recently, our guest author, Devan Sabaratnam, wrote about the shutting down of a service called I Want Sandy. Today, Pownce announced that they are shutting down the doors in two weeks time. This calls into question how reliable it is for users to move their data online and whether it is […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged business, iwantsandy, m&a, Pownce, saas, sixapart, standards, twitter | 2 Responses

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