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Australian Stories

Acquisition stories

Dicker Data logs record revenue and profit for 'very satisfying' year

Dicker Data is eyeing up new opportunities after logging 'a very satisfying' FY revenue of $1.07 billion, with operating profit of $31.6 million.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Mon, 29th Feb 2016

Storage

Pure Storage channel gains momentum

Pure Storage's channel growth continues to accelerate, with a 124% increase in partner sales executives in 2015.

By Catherine Knowles • 2 min read • Fri, 26th Feb 2016

Productivity

Tecala seeks high growth with new appointment

Cloud and managed ICT company Tecala has appointed a new general manager of sales and marketing, whose expertise lies in high growth companies.

By Heather Wright • 1 min read • Thu, 25th Feb 2016

Dicker Data

Dicker Data expands operation with new warehouse and offices

Dicker Data bolsters its capacity with an £18m acquisition of new Kurnell lands for office and warehouse expansion.

By Heather Wright • 1 min read • Thu, 25th Feb 2016

Global Stories

Acquisition stories

Hyperscale

Equinix adding 3M square feet of colocation space

Equinix is investing more than US$4.5 billion this year in acquisitions and organic growth, including building four data centers.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Fri, 4th Mar 2016

AI Security

EXCLUSIVE: Behind the scenes with Webroot MD

Empathy and a natural curiosity - two valuable attributes for the IT industry according to Webroot's managing director of Asia Pacific.

By Ashton Young • 5 min read • Fri, 4th Mar 2016

Cybersecurity

IBM doubles down on security with latest acquisition

IBM Security is set to expand its operations with the acquisition of Resilient Systems, specialists in security incident response solutions.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Tue, 1st Mar 2016

Hyperscale

Steady data center demand, Telx acquisition see Digital Realty revenue climb

Last year's acquisition of Telx has added $13 million to Digital Realty's revenues for the fourth quarter of 2015, with steady demand driving business.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 1st Mar 2016

UXC

Done deal: CSC completes UXC acquisition

CSC has completed its acquisition of Australia's UXC Limited, creating one of the regions largest IT services companies.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 1st Mar 2016

Apple

Vocus revenue soars in lead-up to M2 merger

Vocus Communications has seen its revenue soar 181%, with NPAT up 203% in its last financials prior to the M2 merger.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Mon, 29th Feb 2016

DevOps

2016 'hotbed' of M&A activity predicted – so who's buying who?

2016 is shaping up to be a hotbed of activity for mergers and acquisition in 2016, according to 451 Research. So who's buying who?.

By Heather Wright • 4 min read • Mon, 29th Feb 2016

Storage

Western Digital buys IBM patents, gears up to be leader in data storage

Western Digital acquires over 100 patent assets from IBM to strengthen its technology leadership position. #technews #patents.

By Catherine Knowles • 2 min read • Mon, 29th Feb 2016

Unified Communications

2degrees crushes competition to win Canstar broadband satisfaction award

Just six months after entering the broadband fray, 2degrees has cleaned up in the Canstar Consumer Satisfaction awards for broadband services.

By Heather Wright • 3 min read • Fri, 26th Feb 2016

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Oracle expands cloud business with new acquisition

Oracle is acquiring cloud software company Ravello Systems in a deal designed to help speed customers' transition to the cloud.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Fri, 26th Feb 2016

Fintech

Ingram Micro records Q4 sales drop

Ingram Micro reports a 19% drop in Q4 sales to USD $11.3 billion as last year's figures were boosted by sales bonuses and exited business ventures.

By Heather Wright • 3 min read • Fri, 26th Feb 2016

Microsoft

Lightning Lab backs Kiwi start-ups thinking big

The Lightning Lab has announced the digital startups that will take part in the Lightning Lab 2016 Auckland Programme and the Wellington XX Programme.

By Catherine Knowles • 6 min read • Thu, 25th Feb 2016