Tag: acqusition

The DevOps Long Tail of Salesforce’s Slack Buy

Mike Vizard | December 2, 2020 | acqusition, collaboration, devops, Salesforce, Slack

While most of the focus on the acquisition of Slack this week by Salesforce for $27.7 billion clearly revolves around digital business transformation initiatives, the implications of the deal for DevOps teams ...

IBM Acquires Instana to Advance Observability Strategy

Mike Vizard | November 20, 2020 | acqusition, application performance management, ibm, instana, mergers and acquisitions, microservices, observability

IBM this week announced it plans to acquire Instana, a provider of an application performance management (APM) platform that is optimized for microservices. Robin Hernandez, vice president of hybrid cloud management and ...

BMC Software Closes Compuware Deal, Sets Course

Mike Vizard | June 1, 2020 | acqusition, BMC Software, compuware, mainframes, modernize mainframe environment

BMC Software today announced it has formally completed its acquisition of Compuware as part of an expanded effort to modernize mainframe environments. Bill Miller, president of ZSolutions at BMC, said now that ...

DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Consolidation This Way Comes

Mike Vizard | January 23, 2020 | acqusition, CollabNet VersionOne, consolidation, devops, merger, value stream management, XebiaLabs

The merger of XebiaLabs and CollabNet VersionOne announced this week will accelerate the ongoing consolidation of providers of DevOps platforms that has been slowly gaining momentum for the better part of two ...