HPE, in a surprise move, has paid $275 million to acquire former Silicon Valley giant SGI. This equates to $7.75 per share, a premium of 30% over what SGI shares were trading at by close on August 10. What are the reasons for this acquisition?
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NetApp Attempts to Buy Its Way out of Obscurity.
On December 21, 2015, NetApp announced a definitive agreement to acquire SolidFire for $870M in cash. Apart from my initial surprise that NetApp actually had that amount of money sitting in its bank account, what does this mean?
Dell + (EMC + VMware) = ?
Wall Street has had a massive few days covering the Dell/EMC news. From a financial standpoint, any company that pays $67 billion to acquire another company is certainly major news, but from a technical standpoint, what exactly does this mean for the virtualization industry?
Dell and EMC: A Marriage Made in Heaven or a Match Made in Hell?
Over the last couple of days there has been an ever-increasing rumble that Dell is going to make an offer for EMC. But how is this any different from the much-rumbled-about HP/EMC merger of last year?
Is Citrix Trying to Sell Itself?
Several news resources have reported that Citrix is trying to sell the entire company to Dell. Reuters first broke the story late on Tuesday evening, and other news agencies have followed suit.
Is a Privatized Citrix in the Cards?
Elliott Management has a plan for Citrix. Shake out sales and marketing, sell GoTo and NetScaler, dump the dead wood, and shut down all blue-sky research. There has been no response yet from Citrix beyond a brief note to say “we’ll get back to you on that,” but you can bet that CEO Mark Templeton …