Continuing on with the October theme of acquisitions, today SolarWinds announced that the private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Thoma Bravo would acquire it. The deal is valued at $4.5 billion. The two firms state that they will pay shareholders $60.10 which is 44% over its closing price on October 8th.

Today at Dell World 2015, Dell Inc. announced that it has been working with Microsoft to release a new hybrid cloud solution. This expansion of Dell’s cloud portfolio is all about making the path to cloud more attractive to customers by tackling the barriers that make them hesitate. On top of that, Dell now has

EMC Corporation and VMware Inc. announced that they would be combining their respective cloud capabilities (including the existing Virtustream cloud offerings) to form a new cloud services business under the Virtustream brand. The new Virtustream cloud services will be jointly owned 50:50 by both VMware and EMC and the current CEO of Virtustream, Rodney Rodgers,

October is the month for major acquisitions apparently. Last week Dell acquired EMC for $67 billion in what amounted to the largest tech merger in history, or the largest so far. In slightly smaller announcements, Imation acquired Connected data and Western Digital was granted permission to further integrate HGST into WD. Today marks the second major acquisition announcement of the

Today at Dell World in Austin, Dell Inc. introduced several new solutions and services aimed at lowering costs and downtime in large-scale datacenters. These new solutions and services run the gamut from servers to arrays to hyperconverged to software. All of these announced solutions will help customers to easily scale and adapt to their infrastructures

A few months ago Dell announced its new Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS) line of business. This line of business is aimed at businesses that normally fall through the crack between traditional datacenters and hyperscale (web tech, telecommunications service providers, hosting companies, oil and gas, and research organizations). Today at Dell World 2015, Dell Inc. is announcing

Today at Dell World, Dell Inc. is now offering what they claim to be the industry-leading All-Flash cost-per-gigabyte. Based off of Dell’s 13th generation Poweredge server platform, the arrays combine the new flagship Dell Storage SC9000 storage array controller, new 12Gb SAS expansion enclosures and next generation array software to deliver the lowest cost/GB of

Hot on the heal’s of their historic acquisition, Dell has announced their next-generation Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recovery software. Specifically designed for the cloud, the new software integrates the features of AppAssure as well as other Dell solutions built to help reduce downtime for customer environment.

Drobo has announced the B810n, a hybrid storage system based on the company’s BeyondRAID technology, which is leveraged in most other Drobo storage solutions. Featuring hybrid storage and data aware tiering, the company indicates that B810n is 5x faster than its predecessor and offers users advanced automation and technical features. Drobo has also designed their new hybrid