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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.

• Report: HP to buy Aruba for wireless tech

  HP is in talks to purchase Aruba Networks, with an eye toward acquiring that company's wireless networking infrastructure technology, according to a report published by Bloomberg News.</a>

• 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.

• 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.

• Red Hat acquires Makara

  Enterprise open-source software vendor Red Hat has acquired cloud software provider Makara, Red Hat announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

• Attachmate buying Novell for $2.2 billion

  Novell announced Monday it has agreed to be acquired by Attachmate for US$2.2 billion, ending months of speculation over its future. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of next year.