Year: 2010

  • Blockbuster: HP Buys Fortify Date:

    Blockbuster: HP Buys Fortify Date:

    Ericka Chickowski

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    Blockbuster: HP Buys Fortify Date: August Price Tag: Rumored to be at least $200 millionSpecialty Gained: Software security Darkhorse: Boeing Buys Narus Date: JulySpecialty Gained: real-time network traffic and analytics softwareSignificance: This buy allows the aerospace giant a toe-hold into the lucrative government cybersecurity space in order to better compete with other mega-government vendors such… Read more

  • Teradata’s Aprimo Acquisition Aids Expansion to Cloud Software Services

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Enterprise data warehousing company Teradata Corp agreed to buy privately held Aprimo for $525 million to expand into cloud software services, as it gears to meet challenges from larger rivals IBM and Oracle. Indianapolis-based Aprimo provides software to its enterprise customers, who use it to analyze data to map out their marketing and… Read more

  • Google and…um…

    Google and…um…

    Leah Gabriel Nurik

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    Google and…um… The search giant has made no secret of its plans for mobile domination, and its 2010 M&A strategy was focused on everything mobile and social. Many of its mobile acquisitions focused on improving Android functionality – like visual mobile search provider PlinkArt, and music synching techie firm Simplify Media as well as Touch… Read more

  • Microsoft to Create Windows OS for Tablet Computers, Report

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is working on a version of its core Windows operating system for devices such as tablets, according to media reports on Tuesday, and the company said its Windows Phone 7 software is making headway in the booming smartphone market. Microsoft plans to unveil a version of its operating software that runs… Read more

  • Ingram Micro to Offer HP 3PAR Storage Systems

    Jennifer Lawinski

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    Distributor Ingram Micro has added enterprise-class HP 3PAR storage systems to its enterprise solutions portfolio. The Santa Ana, Calif.-based distributor is one of the first to offer HP 3PAR storage systems to the channel, Ingram Micro said. HP acquired 3PAR in September. "The availability of HP 3PAR technologies from Ingram Micro is significant news for… Read more

  • CA Technologies Predicts Cloud Security Adoption Gains in 2011

    Nathan Eddy

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    A poll of CA Technologies experts found inside threats to cloud security will continue to grow next year, but predicted 2011 would b the year IT security enabled cloud adoption on a broader scale. Company research suggested organizations would begin using behavioral analysis to predict threat from the inside. There is case study research in… Read more