Take a Network Break! Grab a coffee, a doughnut and then join us for an analysis of the latest IT news, vendor moves and new product announcements. We ll separate the signal from the noise–or at least make some noise of our own.

Consolidation in the Silicon Makers

What does this mean for Noviflow, Centex, Cavium, EZChip and many others ?

Avago To Buy Broadcom for $37 Billion

Avago Puts Up $37B to Acquire Comms Giant Broadcom

• The deal, if consummated, would be the biggest acquisition ever for the $160 billion market cap Intel and help it move from PC sales into faster-growing sectors like Altera s data center programmable chips.

Intel nears $15B deal to purchase Altera | New York Post

Yet as chip firms seek to capitalize on this opportunity, many are realizing they need to manufacture all of the components, not just some, and gain a new set of skills to sell to a broader group of customers. The classic information technology business is not enough now firms must strike deals with distributors and establish contacts at automotive companies, appliance makers, and retail chains. – Stacey Higginbotham

Here s the story behind today s chip M&A frenzy – Fortune

EMC buys Virtustream

• Joined the Federation Family – which sounds very ominous.
• Chad Sakac: The growth in the public cloud is why it s so important to us strategically to a) embrace all the public clouds using things like Cloud Foundry, and enabling our customers to use AWS Direct Connect, Azure Express Route to leverage their elasticity coupled with the things EMC provides; b) provide alternative public clouds that are incredibly well mated with people s on premises private clouds

EMC and Virtustream whats up with that?! – Virtual Geek

Ben Kepes at Forbes

Wall Street Journal

HP buys NFV company

HP to acquire ConteXtream to accelerate NFV adoption | HP Next

How HP s ConteXtream Deal Might Change the Game

Fortinet To Buy Meru Networks

Fortinet has a history of buying smaller, distressed companies and bringing them to market.

Fortinet Announces Agreement to Acquire Meru Networks (NASDAQ:FTNT)

Palo Alto Buys CirroSecure

CirroSecure is the best non-disruptive compliance and risk analysis platform for your cloud based services.

From the press release:

The newest technology addition to the Palo Alto Networks portfolio acquired from CirroSecure offers a unique approach to securing these sanctioned SaaS applications. This functionality includes:

* Complete visibility across all user, folder and file activity; providing detailed analysis that helps you transition from a position of speculation to one of knowing exactly what s happening at any given point in time.
* Deep analytics into day-to-day usage that allows you to quickly determine if there are any DLP or compliance-related policy violations.
* Granular, context-aware policy control that provides you with the ability to drive real-time enforcement and quarantine of users and data as soon as a violation occurs.

Palo Alto Networks Acquires CirroSecure

Palo Alto Networks plans to use CirroSecure s resources to expand functionality on is own enterprise security platform for better guarding popular SaaS collaboration products from the likes of Salesforce.com, Google Drive, Box and Dropbox, among others.

Palo Alto Networks acquires cybersecurity company CirroSecure | ZDNet

Linux On Network Switches Makes Sense For Your Career

Blessay: Linux on Network Switches Makes Sense. For Your Career – EtherealMind

PQ 50 – Network Service Header Deep Dive & Use Cases

PQ 50 – Network Service Header (NSH) Deep Dive

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