merger and acquisition

NTT Com to acquire 74% stake in Netmagic Solutions
Established in 1998, Netmagic Solutions provides co-location, managed hosting, ISP and cloud services in India. It currently operates seven data centers in major Indian cities including Mumbai, Chennai, Noida (Delhi-NCR) and Bangalore with over 200,000 sq ft floor space in total.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 26-Jan-2012

EMC predicts: Huge biz potentials when cloud meets big data

EMC's key cloud deployments in 2011 included PetroChina and Columbia Sportswear that dealt with big data management and virtual storage. "When the cloud meets big data," said EMC, new tools for capture, search, discovery and analysis will be available to gain insights from organizations’ unstructured data.
by: Carol Ko 19-Jan-2012
IBM acquires Green Hat for cloud software testing
Green Hat’s solutions helps set up a virtual test environment in a matter of minutes versus weeks, and for a fraction of the cost.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 05-Jan-2012

Cisco predicts: Business-leading IT to operate private app-stores

In 2012, IT will adopt a much more robust product lifecycle management approach in managing cloud services. Whichever cloud services to adopt, businesses are advised to incorporate cloud computing into their overall IT strategy, start small, and pay attention to change management
by: Carol Ko 04-Jan-2012
Akamai acquires Cotendo for US$268 million
Web content delivery solutions provider Akamai is acquiring Contendo for cloud and mobile optimization technologies. Cotendo, founded in 2008 with a technology center in Israel, provides Web and mobile acceleration services from its global distributed Points of Presences.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 30-Dec-2011

IBM reviews: Cloud generates growth, extends business reach

Under the "IBM SmartCloud" portfolio, Big Blue has invested in over US$3 billion in 10 key cloud acquisitions since 2003 and forecasts US$7 billion in cloud revenue by 2015. Read on to learn about IBM's key cloud deployments in China, India, Vietnam, South Korea and Australia in 2011.
by: Carol Ko 29-Dec-2011
SAP acquires SuccessFactors for cloud-based HR management
SuccessFactors currently operates 15 million subscription seats with over 3,500 customers in 168 countries. Upon completion of the transaction, the SuccessFactors’ CEO Lars Dalgaard will lead the cloud business of SAP in addition to his responsibility as CEO of SuccessFactors.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 05-Dec-2011
Oracle builds public cloud offering with RightNow acquisition
The new acquisition will beef up Oracle's public cloud service offerings including sales force automation, human resources, talent management, social networking, databases and Java as part of the Oracle Public Cloud.
by: CRM Innovation editors 06-Nov-2011
Red Hat to acquire Gluster for open source storage
Gluster's speciality is simplifying storage using open source software and commodity hardware. Its GlusterFS is a software-only, scale-out storage system. It allows enterprises to combine large numbers of commodity storage and compute resources into a high-performance, centrally-managed and globally-accessible storage pool.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 02-Nov-2011
HDS tackles big data with information cloud
HDS information cloud provides a scale-out file system that can store and process both structured and unstructured data in parallel and at scale. It can connect data sets, reveal patterns, actionable information and new insights to business users.
by: Asia Cloud Forum 26-Oct-2011