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Channel M&A

Federal Blockbuster: General Dynamics To Buy Government IT Powerhouse CSRA In $9.6 Billion Deal

General Dynamics, a $31 billion aerospace and defense company, says CSRA will be able to enhance its IT services provision to the U.S. Department of Defense, intelligence outfits and federal civilian agencies.
Capgemini To Buy LiquidHub To Expand Digital Transformation Capabilities

The acquisition, expected to close in a couple of months with a price tag of close to $500 million, gives Capgemini a new road to expanding its own digital transformation services capabilities in the North American market.
MSP M&A: Business Technology Partners Buys Responsible Computing Solutions For New Jersey Presence, Datto Experience

BTP could have grown its New Jersey business and Datto skills on its own, but decided acquiring RCS and hiring its CEO Michael Achey was a much faster way to go.
PCM Acquires Top Cisco, VMware Partner To Strengthen Collaboration Practice In 'Win-Win' Deal

Epoch Universal, a Cisco Gold Partner with cutting-edge certifications from the networking giant and VMware, has broad solutions expertise that includes networking, wireless and unified collaboration.
The Best And Worst Channel Company Stocks In 2017

Seventeen of the 27 publicly held channel companies on our watch list saw the price of their stock increase in 2017 while 10 recorded stock price declines. Take a look at which companies made gains and which didn't.
Momentum Cyber Lands Dave DeWalt As Chairman, Goes All In On Security M&A, Advisory Services

Momentum Cyber will provide life-cycle services to cybersecurity firms ranging from helping companies get started to executing an exit strategy via a merger, IPO or potential liquidation, DeWalt says.
Raymond James Report: Ingram Parent Shares Halted, Could The Distributor Be Sold To Synnex?

Trading halts and mounting debt are fueling speculation that Tianjin Tianhai, which late 2016 acquired Ingram Micro, may be looking to sell the distributor to a rival like Synnex.
SS&C To Purchase Financial, Health-Care Solution Provider DST Systems For $5.4 Billion

The solution provider says buying DST will bolster its financial software prowess and, perhaps more notably, add a trio of health-care-focused solutions to the company's portfolio.
10th Magnitude Acquires Northwest Cadence For Azure-related DevOps, Analytics, App Modernization Expertise

10th Magnitude is also getting a nationwide presence with the Northwest Cadence as it builds a business geared to helping Fortune 1000 businesses execute on digital transformation and migrate to the Microsoft Azure cloud.
Accenture Acquires 'Game Of Thrones' Visual Effects Company To Add State-Of-The-Art Visualization Capabilities

"Mackevision's capabilities will add a whole new dimension of content innovation to our portfolio of services," said Accenture's Brian Whipple.
Cyxtera Goes On Offensive Against Bad Actors With Proposed Buy Of Vulnerability Assessment Firm Immunity

The security analytics vendor says Immunity's focus on offense-oriented techniques and technologies distinguishes it from those that only attempt to address defensive security postures in their service or product lines.
New Kid On The Block: Onica Out To Dominate AWS Consulting Space With IoT, App Development Additions

A $20 million growth investment made by private equity firm Sunstone Partners spurred longtime IT services firm CorpInfo to spin off its AWS consulting and managed services division as a stand-alone company, Onica, in late October.
Microsoft To Acquire Avere Systems, Add High-Performance Appliances, Hybrid Cloud NAS To Azure

The acquisition will give Microsoft access to high-performance cloud-based NAS technology, including both physical and virtual NAS appliances, and provide a new on-ramp for enterprise data to Azure.
Ingram Micro Acquires Cloud Harmonics To Beef Up Security Expertise, Add Palo Alto Networks Offerings

The next-generation security distributor maintains relationships with a multitude of emerging vendors, including Imperva, Infoblox, Menlo Security and ScienceLogic.
Channel M&A: ConvergeOne Purchases Star Solution Provider AOS With Public Offering On Horizon

AOS delivers a wide range of IT consulting and managed services that adds SharePoint and Service Request Management offerings to ConvergeOne's solutions lineup.
The 10 Biggest Tech Mergers And Acquisitions Of 2017

IT vendors, telecom giants, and solution providers got in on the M&A action during 2017, so there's no telling what new services are coming to the market in 2018. Here are ten of the biggest, headline-grabbing tech acquisitions of year.
2018 Forecast: Prepare For A Tech Acquisition Blizzard

With increasing private equity interest and corporate tax cuts in sight, 2018 is shaping up to be a record year on the M&A front in tech.
Collaboration Technology Star ConvergeOne, Valued At $1.2B, Set To Go Public In 2018 Following Merger

The Eagan, Minn.-based solution provider has been on a rapid growth trajectory in recent months, acquiring the likes of Avaya powerhouse SPS and Cisco gold partner Annese
Tech Data CEO Credits Monster $9B Quarter To Having Disciplined Responses To Strong Endpoint Demand, Legacy Data Center Tech

Tech Data reported company-record revenues of $9.14 billion for the third fiscal quarter ended Oct. 31, up 41 percent from last year's third-quarter mark of $6.49 billion.
Consolidated Communications Offloads Virginia Telecom Businesses One Year After Fairpoint Purchase, IT Services Division Sale

The solution provider said the deal, valued at $21 million, allows the company to better focus on 'core' operations and the integration of Fairpoint Communications.

Vendor M&A

Wheeling And Dealing: 5 Recent Acquisitions Disrupting The Cloud Market

CRN breaks down five recent investment and acquisition deals involving companies operating in the cloud that partners need to know.
Oracle Doubles Down On Security With Plan To Buy Network, Application Security Startup Zenedge

Zenedge's web application firewall and DDoS mitigation products help customers secure their applications, networks, databases and APIs from malicious internet traffic.
Data Center Powerhouse Equinix To Acquire Infomart Dallas For $800 Million

The data center giant will increase the number of owned assets by four and boost Equinix recurring revenues by more than 45 percent.
Carbonite Looks To Mozy Acquisition For New Growth Opportunities, Channel Expansion

Carbonite said that Mozy's huge customer base benefited from that company's endpoint data protection capabilities, but is ripe for Carbonite's channel partners to bring a wider portfolio of business-oriented disaster recovery, availability, and other services.
Dell Sells Off Mozy To Carbonite For $146M As Massive Structural Changes Loom

Dell Technologies is letting go of its Mozy business unit as the company continues to search for ways to restructure, including possibly filing for an IPO or merging with VMware.
Icahn And Deason To Investors: Xerox Channel Conflict Hurting Partner Margins, 'Diluting Differentiation'

The print vendor's two biggest individual shareholders argued in a letter to investors that the deal will be"the company’s final death knell" if ultimately approved by shareholders.
Major Xerox Investor Sues To Block Fujifilm Deal, Alleging Fraud And Breach Of Fiduciary Duties

Darwin Deason is claiming that the Fujifilm deal is a result of a "lock-up" agreement made between the two companies in 2001 that was "fraudulently concealed" from investors.
Fast-Growing Solution Provider Unitas Global Acquires Solinea To Create 'Next-Generation' Cloud Platform

'This will immediately give our clients a single trusted partner to help with cloud strategy enablement, adoption and cloud infrastructure management,' says Unitas Global CEO Patrick Shutt.
Business Outsourcer Premier BPO Acquires dinCloud, A VDI And Cloud Services Provider

'There's tremendous affinity to the channel across the management team and the channel is our growth engine, so we intend to nurture it even more now,' says Ali Din, who will lead marketing across both companies.
Proofpoint To Buy Phishing Simulation And Training Provider Wombat Security Technologies for $225M

The deal will allow Proofpoint to fuse its own advanced threat protection capabilities with Pittsburgh-based Wombat's real-time phishing simulation and cybersecurity awareness and training.
Storage M&A: Rubrik Buying Datos IO To Get Cloud Native, Modern Application Data Management Tech

With the acquisition, Rubrik will become an early leader in the managing and protection of data generated by the most common NoSQL database and big data vendors, letting it provide such data with a comprehensive data management environment.
Michael Dell Singles Out Channel Sales Growth In SEC Filing: 'Partners Believe In What We're Doing'

Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said "partners believe in what we're doing" with channel sales increasing double-digits in the first half of fiscal year 2018.
Report: Dell Mulling Reverse Merger With VMware, Special Committee Formed

VMware is forming a special committee to consider merging with its parent company Dell Technologies, according to a Reuters report.
A Giant Is Born: Fujifilm Deal Allows Xerox To Make Inroads Into Asia-Pacific Print Market, Bolster Next-Gen R&D Efforts

Virtual reality, IoT, artificial intelligence, machine learning and voice activation for multifunction devices are areas of potential advancement that could give Xerox and its partners access to growing revenue, Xerox CEO Jeff Jacobson said on the company's earnings call.
ConnectWise Issues Open Invite To Competitors Datto, Kaseya, SolarWinds To Attend IT Nation Conference

ConnectWise has always talked about its open ecosystem, but is now putting its money where its mouth is by asking its top competitors to join its premier MSP conference, and hoping for reciprocal invitations in return.
Red Hat To Buy Google-Backed Container Startup CoreOS For $250 Million

The deal should strengthen Red Hat OpenShift's challenge to Docker in a rapidly heating market for enterprise-grade container management platforms.
SAP Strikes $2.4 Billion Deal To Acquire Sales Performance Software Developer Callidus, Plans Front-Office Application Push

Application giant reports 26 percent growth in Q4 cloud software sales, forecasts 27 to 33 percent cloud growth this year.
5 Things For Partners To Know About Cisco's Skyport Systems Acquisition

Cisco's acquisition of Skyport Systems last week is the latest move by the networking giant in the hyper-converged space. Here are five things partners need to know.
VMware-Dell Reverse Merger Report Sends VMware Market Cap Plummeting By Nearly $10 Billion

While investors look at the financial ramifications of a possible acquisition by VMware of its parent Dell, some channel partners are concerned about the possibility that VMware might lose its all-important independence.
Report: VMware Might Buy Dell In Reverse Merger

Dell Technologies could emerge as a public company through a reverse merger with VMware, which has a market cap of $56 billion, according to a report Monday.

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