Cybersecurity
"Untrue": Zscaler CEO shoots down Broadcom buyout rumours
Anonymous Substack post with AI signs put the fear of Tan in Zscaler staff
open source
As Cisco swoops on Cilium, community efforts look critical
CNCF governance should avoid a "Hashicorp" situation, but increasingly broad community contributions to the important open source project would be welcome.
vmware
Broadcom to close VMware buyout this week. Nervous? Consider this...
"There is a lot of anxiety about the Broadcom-VMware acquisition around pricing, support and other issues"
cybersecurity
Wiz eyes SentinelOne as cybersecurity market evolves
Wiz, the fastest software company to grow from $1 million to $100 million in ARR should be aware how fast boasts about record-breaking achievements can look like yesterday's news. Just ask SentinelOne...
Broadcom
Buckle up: $61 billion VMware acquisition a done deal by October 30, says Broadcom
Competition watchdog goes from a host of worries to a shrug.
Cisco
It’s not always DNS… Cisco snaps up Greek BGP specialist
Deal puts Greece's technology talent -- and ongoing Border Gateway Protocol challenges -- back on the map.
Atos
Atos in advanced talks with Czech billionaire over €2b sale. Here's what its CEO told us.
Proposed sale follows Atos split and AWS partnership as the French multinational aims to stop fighting the cloud...
deals
Thales' $3.6 billion buyout of Imperva is timely...
Imperva, generating ~$500 million in revenues, has suffered from executive churn in recent years that has caused some “adverse impact on Imperva’s roadmap execution."
machine learning
With $1.3 billion MosaicML acquisition, Databricks sets itself up for open source generative AI fight
Databricks has agreed the deal just weeks after releasing Dolly 2.0, a 12 billion parameter open source language model, as a battle begins for dominance of open source generative AI workflows and platforms.
Nasdaq
Nasdaq is spending a record $10.5 Billion buying this software company. Here's why...
Treasury, risk, and collateral management, and regulatory and compliance software are more important than ever...
Enterprise IT
2023’s first mega tech deal is in -- and a sign of things to come in the database world
It could well be a year of significant database consolidation...
Featured
Cash-rich IBM eyes federal business with its 7th deal of 2022
Acquisition is IBM's seventh this calendar year