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• Cisco acquires OpenStack pioneer Piston Cloud

  Cisco this week announced intentions to acquire Piston Cloud Computing, its second OpenStack cloud computing buyout in less than a year.

• Cisco, Chambers looking for one last shot at VMware?

  Reports surfaced last week that Cisco may be close to buying hyperconvergence start-up Nutanix.

• Cisco: Deal for Tropo will ease integration of communication into cloud apps

  Cisco this week announced intentions to acquire Tropo, a developer of software designed to embed real-time communications within cloud applications.

• Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent just as John Chambers predicted

  ALLEN, TX -- Nokia's $16.6 billion acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent is an example of the industry shifting just as Cisco predicted, its CEO said this week.

• What's behind Microsoft's not-so-crazy startup spending spree

  Microsoft so far this year has been the most acquisitive company in enterprise IT, snapping up at least four firms on top of four others that it bought in the last two months of 2014. And while the buyouts might at first glance appear scattershot we're talking text analysis, calendaring and digital pen startups among others -- there does seem to be a grand plan here.

• Blue Coat Systems gets flipped for $2.4 billion

  Blue Coat Systems is being sold by one private equity firm to another for $2.4 billion as it is prepped to go public again after it was taken off the stock market in 2012.

• Docker buys SDN start-up for container networking

  Linux container company Docker this week said it would acquire SDN start-up SocketPlane, a developer of a native networking stack for Docker software.

• Brocade acquires mobile SDN company

  Brocade has announced plans to acquire Connectem, a privately-held company whose virtualization software maps mobile workloads to clouds.

• Half-baked mergers

  It can take years after a merger has been declared "complete" for the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2564041/it-management/methodical-merger.html">IT processes and systems to be truly merged</a>. Over the years, we've all seen stories in the business press about this sort of thing, and yet it keeps happening, despite what can be dire consequences.

• Cisco acquires OpenStack cloud provider

  Cisco this week said it will acquire privately held Metacloud, an operator of private OpenStack clouds for global enterprises.

• Cisco gains strength in next-gen firewalls via Sourcefire code

  Cisco is bringing technology obtained through last year's acquisition of Sourcefire to its firewalls to enable threat-focused security for enterprises.

• Seven Group Limited Reaches Four-Month High on Wireless Sale

  On Monday, Seven Group Limited saw a four-month high after announcing plans to sell its wireless unit, vividwireless, for A$230 million ($248 million). The company's share price closed up 5.7 percent to A$8.56, a level last seen on Oct. 11.

• Aussie businesses need to be prepared for merger and acquisition deals

  Once so-called ‘new technology’ companies are now playing an integral role in the ‘real economy’ and dominant technology sector players are taking a more aggressive approach to acquiring products, capacity and market share through merger and acquisition (M&A) activity.

• Google-Admeld deal under closer DOJ scrutiny

  The U.S. Department of Justice has asked Google for more information on its proposed acquisition of display advertising optimization firm, Admeld, Google said on Wednesday.

• Dell in talks to buy storage vendor Compellent

  Dell said Thursday it is in advanced talks with storage vendor Compellent Technologies regarding a merger that would call for Dell to pay US$27.50 per share, or roughly $876 million, for the company.