acquisition

Samsung acquires Joyent  (private and public cloud / container company) June 15, 2016 - by Scott Hammond, CEO Share:   Since its inception, just over ten years ago, Joyent has lived on the leading edge of technical innovation. The Joyent team pioneered public cloud computing (and...

This is a good one.  Former corporate raider and Donald Trump shoe-in for cabinet role Carl Icahn is unloading XO to Verizon for $1.8 billion. The deal also includes potential leasing of wireless spectrum owned by XO and a future right to buy the spectrum...

Zayo has done another acquisition. This time Dublin, Ireland, company Viatel.  That company is owned by Digiweb Group.  Deal price: 95 million euros. The deal includes data center assets in eight European countries. Zayo also gets 5200 miles of fiber in eight countries. ...

(borrowed from WHT post made today)   ... as a couple providers here use Waveform and some readers are in Waveform/ManagedWay's area ------- SOUTHFIELD, Mich., May 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ManagedWay, a leading Southfield-based cloud services provider, announced today that it has acquired...

OpenDNS, that nimble DNS lookup service some here use and many more probably have in the past is selling out. Cisco is the buyer, price $683 million. More details over here: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-security-news and https://www.opendns.com/cisco-opendns/

Shaw Communications is buying ViaWest, a US datacenter owner for $1.2 billion. Viawest has 27 datacenters in the United States.

Received the notice a few minutes ago:

It was a while ago when DotVPS.co (previously owned by Mr Jack Septhon, known on the other forum as Jack007), was acquired by Mr Oktay Kilic, commonly known as ispirto or serverian. http://dotvps.co's index page: