iLinc Buy Bolsters BroadSoft’s Unified Communications Wares October 4, 2011 BroadSoft, a VoIP communications provider for businesses and individuals, has acquired iLinc Communications, an international provider of web collaboration tools for businesses, governments and educational institutions. The iLinc acquisition is part of BroadSoft’s plan to offer unified communications (UC) services to its roughly 450 global managed service providers. To that end, iLinc definitely fits the […]
Salesforce.com Buys Assistly for SaaS Social Media Help Desk September 22, 2011 Cloud CRM provider Salesforce.com has purchased SaaS social media help desk developer Assistly for $50 million in cash, building on the Salesforce Service Cloud concept. And I have to say it, just once, at the top of this story: TalkinCloud totally called it. As Salesforce’s press release explains, “Assistly lets small companies and emerging businesses set […]
CA Technologies: Connecting the Cloud Services Dots for MSPs? September 13, 2011 Sometime in Q4 2011, CA Technologies expects to launch its ARCserve backup and restore platform in Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud. But that’s only a small piece of the larger cloud services story that’s emerging over at CA. I’m not suggesting that the cloud can make CA a hyper-growth company. But channel partners should start studying […]
Penton Media Acquires Talkin’ Cloud and Nine Lives Media August 30, 2011 Mergers and acquisitions are commonplace in the cloud computing market. Now, Talkin’ Cloud is part of that M&A activity. Specifically, Nine Lives Media Inc., creator of Talkin’ Cloud, has been acquired by Penton Media. The Nine Lives business and all of our leading IT channel communities — Talkin’ Cloud, MSPmentor and The VAR Guy — […]
Verizon Acquires CloudSwitch for Cloud Migration Technology August 26, 2011 Verizon announced the acquisition of cloud software developer CloudSwitch in a move designed to simplify cloud migrations and boost adoption. Intriguingly, the telecommunications giant plans to integrate CloudSwitch with Terremark, the cloud services provider whose acquisition kicked off Verizon’s 2011. CloudSwitch’s value to Verizon is in its “breakthrough software that enables enterprises to more easily […]
Acquia Expands Drupal Service Offerings Through Acquisitions August 19, 2011 Acquia, which provides professional services around Drupal, the very popular open source content management system (CMS), has acquired Drupal migration service provider Cyrve and Growing Venture Solutions (GVS), a provider of Drupal security services. Thanks to what each acquisition brings to the table, Acquia is now able to offer Acquia Migration Services and Acquia Security Services. Both new offerings are also […]
Windstream to Acquire VoIP Provider PAETEC for $2.3 Billion August 2, 2011 IT solution provider Windstream has reached an agreement to acquire VoIP specialist and MSP PAETEC for $2.3 billion, in a move designed to expand the company’s footprint in the growing cloud market. Jeff Gardner, president and CEO of Windstream, issued a prepared statement that really says it all: “This transaction significantly advances our strategy to […]
CA Technologies: WatchMouse Acquisition Enforces Cloud SLAs July 29, 2011 CA Technologies has made another strategic cloud-related acquisition. The latest deal involves CA buying WatchMouse B.V., which develops a SaaS-based monitoring platform for cloud, mobile and Web applications. The potential upside for VARs and MSPs is clear: It sounds like channel partners can use WatchMouse to monitor and enforce service level agreements (SLAs) with cloud […]
Cloud Sherpas Acquires New Zealand Google Apps Provider July 27, 2011 Cloud Sherpas, a Google Apps Authorized Reseller and Talkin’ Cloud 50 member, has made its third acquisition of the summer in the form of WaveAdept, based in Wellington, New Zealand. The move marks Cloud Sherpas’s entry into the Asia Pacific market. The cloud service provider has also opened a Sydney, Australia, branch to help build […]
Cloud M&A: Citrix Acquires Cloud.com July 12, 2011 Citrix has acquired Cloud.com, adding the CloudStack IaaS platform for service providers to a cloud portfolio that already includes Xen and NetScaler. Essentially, Citrix is looking to capitalize on the burgeoning cloud service provider marketplace, which it sees as worth $8 billion by the end of 2013. TalkinCloud’s been following Cloud.com closely for a while […]
Cloud Efforts Net Go Daddy $2.25 Billion Investment Deal July 5, 2011 Domain registration and web hosting giant Go Daddy has entered into a strategic partnership and investment deal (don’t call it an acquisition) with KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but several reports place the Go Daddy investment at around $2.25 billion. It’s especially noteworthy since Go Daddy’s investors singled out […]
Cloud M&A: Dimension Data Acquires OpSource July 1, 2011 Dimension Data, the $4.7 billion IT solutions provider arm of NTT Holdings, announced the acquisition of OpSource, the enterprise cloud company that took the No. 1 spot on the inaugural Talkin’ Cloud 50 list of top service providers. Dimension Data plans to integrate OpSource into its Cloud Solutions Business Unit, reporting directly to CEO Brett Dawson. […]
Cloud Sherpas Acquisition Extends Google Apps Biz to Midwest June 27, 2011 Cloud Sherpas, the Google Apps Authorized Reseller with enough momentum to land it at No. 8 on the Talkin’ Cloud 50 by Cloud Revenue Dollar Growth chart, announced the acquisition of Kansas-based Beloit Solutions Group – the service provider’s second acquisition in June, and one that will extend its reach into what it calls the […]
Cloud M&A: 8×8 Acquires Zerigo for Cloud Management June 22, 2011 Cloud solution provider 8×8 has announced the acquisition of Colorado-based Zerigo Inc., enabling the company to add virtual private servers, managed DNS services and monitoring tools for cloud-based servers to its portfolio – as well as a relationship with Salesforce.com-owned PaaS provider Heroku. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The major benefit of the acquisition, […]
Intermedia Acquires Zlago; Accelerates Cloud Channel Push June 14, 2011 Intermedia, the hosted Exchange specialist, has acquired Zlago, a cloud services provider. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal, officially announced today, was actually part of Oak Hill Capital Partners‘ buyout of Intermedia last month. The Intermedia-Zlago business combination will potentially bolster Intermedia’s cloud channel strategy, which already includes nearly 7,000 MSPs and VARs. When […]
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