Mergers and Acquisitions

Highlights

CDW Wraps $2.5 Billion Sirius Acquisition

The transaction is expected to accelerate CDW’s services and solutions in key growth areas.

Gradual approach

Channel Partners Hope for Value in 8×8’s ‘Fire Sale’ Fuze Acquisition

The announcement comes weeks after Mitel and Vonage agreed to deals.

Voxbone SIP

Ericsson Entering Competitive, ‘Risky’ UCaaS Market with Vonage Acquisition

One analyst says this acquisition is a bold move that might not work.

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Green data center

$2.1 Billion Flexential Financing Incentivizes Energy-Efficient Data Center Creation

Flexential must must register a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.4 or under for any data centers it builds through the financing.

Acquisition fish eating little fish

TransUnion Closes Neustar Deal for $3.1 Billion, Excludes Security Business

Neustar Security Services enters a new phase of growth.

CDW Wraps $2.5 Billion Sirius Acquisition

The transaction is expected to accelerate CDW’s services and solutions in key growth areas.

Gradual approach

Channel Partners Hope for Value in 8×8’s ‘Fire Sale’ Fuze Acquisition

The announcement comes weeks after Mitel and Vonage agreed to deals.

Merge sign

8×8 to Acquire Fuze in Deal Worth $250 Million

The transaction will expand 8×8’s global reach.

Merger Acquisition

Cybersecurity Software Firm Quest to be Acquired by Clearlake

Look for the transaction to close in the first quarter of 2022.

Cybersecurity

OpenText Adds NDR to Security and Protection Cloud with Bricata Acquisition

Bricata’s NDR security technologies analyze network traffic for vulnerabilities and threats.

Helm Partners Buying Convergent Amid ‘Aggressive’ Growth Strategy

“I think right now the multiple is as big as it’s ever going to get,” one partner said.

Voxbone SIP

Ericsson Entering Competitive, ‘Risky’ UCaaS Market with Vonage Acquisition

One analyst says this acquisition is a bold move that might not work.

Containerization

DataCore Acquires Container-Native Storage Platform Startup MayaData

MayaData is the creator of the open-source OpenEBS container-attached storage project.

Business Competition

CoreDial Acquisition Key to BCM One Competing Against RingCentral, 8×8, Vonage

This transaction combines the No. 1 and No. 2 white-label UCaaS platform providers.

m&a

Ericsson Surprises with $6.2 Billion Vonage Acquisition

Vonage will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Ericsson.

Giant man standing over little man

BCM One to Become UCaaS Giant with CoreDial Acquisition

CoreDial brings advanced video collaboration capabilities to BCM One.

Private equity

Nitel Takes Private Equity Investment from London Company, Pursues Organic, Inorganic Growth

Nitel’s founders say their new investors understand and value their channel partner community.

Cash pile

Latest M&A: Upstack, CDW, Cox, Microsoft, Dialpad, More

The Zoom-Five9 deal is off, but contact center M&A remains hot.

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