Mergers and Acquisitions

Consolidation is more than a trend; mergers and acquisitions are happening on a weekly basis. These stories help explain their impact.

Highlights

Football Kickoff

Netwrix-Stealthbits Merger Kicks Off 2021 Cybersecurity M&A

The combined company will operate as Netwrix.

Invosys Buys Avaya Installation Expert Atrium Telecom in UK Consolidation

Atrium Telecom provides professional services that help VARs focus on selling.

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Cisco Acquisitions Will Boost Webex, CCaaS

Cisco agreed to acquire IMImobile for $730 million and Slido for an undisclosed sum.

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Acquisition

Latest FireEye Acquisition to Beef up Mandiant Advantage Platform

The acquisition opens up lots of opportunities for partners.

Two cloud-shaped hands shaking among other clouds in the sky.

Cisco to Buy Banzai Cloud, Its Latest Overseas Acquisition

With the acquisition, Cisco builds its modern native-cloud applications and connectivity expertise.

Takeaway

Security, Automation, Scaling Among Top ConnectWise IT Nation Connect Takeaways

The virtual conference touched on key industry topics and provided a road map for the rest of 2020 and beyond.

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MSP 501 Profile: Iuvo Technologies Tackles Customer M&A Amid COVID-19

The MSP/consultant fine-tuned its sales pipeline in 2020.

Big Arm

Palo Alto Networks Acquisition of Expanse to Beef Up Cortex Suite

The acquisition will add $67 million in annual recurring revenue to Palo Alto Networks.

Security Merger

ConnectWise Acquires Cybersecurity Firms Perch Security, StratoZen to Address SMB Needs

The company also shared product updates and details on ConnectWise Fusion, its unified platform approach.

Cloud Roundup

Wipro, Navisite, 2nd Watch Bolster Cloud Service Portfolios

The cloud channel partners all are focused on helping organizations add and manage new and different capabilities.

Strategy

Calligo Continues Acquisition Strategy with Cinnte Technologies Buy

Calligo is ranked 18th on the Channel Futures 2020 MSP 501.

Violin

StorCentric Acquisition Game Plan Now Includes Violin Systems

The vendor picks up software-defined all-flash storage solutions.

AMD to Acquire Xilinx in $35 Billion Deal, Followed by Marvell-Inphi Merger

The two semiconductor deals target growth from edge to cloud.

Expanding cloud services

Cloud Channel Partners Busy Expanding Services Amid COVID-19

In this news roundup, see what Accenture, 2nd Watch, ClearScale and Lemongrass are doing for organizations.

Acquisition Talks

MSP 501 Profile: Ntiva Acquisition Strategy Moves to Integration During Pandemic

The company wanted to be a “consolidator, not a consolidated.”

Acquisition

CompassMSP’s Acquisition Streak Continues with MotherG

MotherG is CompassMSP’s 10th acquisition.

Augmented reality

Cognizant to Buy Bright Wolf, Its 8th Acquisition of 2020

Bright Wolf specializes in industrial IoT. The tie-up will form the foundation for a new Cognizant IoT innovation lab.

COVID-19 pandemic

Virtual Splunk conf20: Thriving in the Data Age Amid COVID-19

Splunk is increasing its focus on observability.

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Twitter

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January 15, 2021

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