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Six industry-defining power struggles 11 January, 2007 13:27:00
An analysis of six battles for power taking shape in the network industryWhen power players envision new market opportunities, they can become so eager for success that they fail to distinguish between true customer need and wishful thinking. Those that put fantasy above reality either don't survive, or don't deliver on their promises as advertised. Only one thing is certain -- for every move one player makes in a hot technology area, others will make countermoves. - +
ARN's A-Z guide to networking 19 December, 2007 14:50:54
As business needs change, so do the requirements for the business backbone. ARN looks at networking trends and technologies and reports on predictions for 2008 and beyond. - +
What did Cisco buy? A look at its '06 acquisitions 21 December, 2006 11:12:23
Cisco's moves in 2006 showed the vendor's urgency to find new markets for expansionCisco made no blockbuster buyouts in 2006. The US$256 million in announced cash and stocks it shelled out for acquisitions this year is chump change compared with 2005, when it began the year buying Airespace for US$450 million, and ended it with the US$6.7 billion Scientific-Atlanta merger. - +
Oracle, Sun deals shake up middleware market 21 January, 2008 07:36:46
Sun buys MySQL, Oracle grabs BEALast week's billion-dollar acquisitions by Oracle and Sun jolted the middleware market, and raised some new concerns for enterprises pursuing service-oriented architecture deployments and considering the use of open source code to flesh them out. - +
SurfControl's on-demand assault 09 August, 2007 16:33:03
It's already had a major impact in the applications space and now software-as-a-service (SaaS) is fast becoming the area of investment for traditional security vendors. A year on from its acquisition of on-demand security provider, BlackSpider Technologies, SurfControl is lining up against the likes of Symantec, Postini and MessageLabs to secure pole position in the online content filtering landscape. SurfControl's executive vice-president and BlackSpider founder, John Cheney, was recently in town to tell local customers and partners about its online email and Web security services. He spoke with ARN about its value proposition, why on-demand is an opportunity for channel partners and how he sees the security market evolving.
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IBM won stockholder approval of a buyout bid and closed another acquisition deal in two recent developments that will bolster its product and service offerings.
Internet Security Systems (ISS) will become an IBM subsidiary after shareholders approved a $US1.3 billion cash offer. IBM announced on August 23 that it was buying the company. ISS' security services aim to protect networks, servers and desktop and laptop PCs by pre-emptively blocking Web threats, such as spam and viruses. When announcing the potential purchase, IBM said ISS will become part of IBM Global Technology Services division and that it plans to keep ISS' 1300 employees.
IBM completed its $US1.6 billion bid for FileNet last week, a move that adds to the company's enterprise content management (ECM) portfolio. FileNet's content management and business process applications have been used by 4300 businesses. Although IBM runs its own ECM division and FileNet's software will be added to that business, the company will support both platforms. FileNet's applications will be integrated with IBM's business process management and service-oriented architecture wares.
The FileNet buy is IBM's fifth purchase in the SOA market. In August it bought business processes tools developer Webify Solutions for an undisclosed sum and offered $US740 million for service management company, MRO Software. In 2005, IBM acquired hardware appliance company, DataPower, in October and portal technology and tools business, Bowstreet, in December.
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