Tag: m&A

DevOps Deeper Dive: IPO Frenzy Heralds Consolidation

Mike Vizard | September 18, 2020 | devops companies, devops investment, IPO, m&A

A spate of initial public offering (IPOs) has resulted in billions of investment dollars being poured into JFrog, Snowflake and Sumo Logic and is likely to fuel of wave of merger and ...

CloudBees’ Acquisition of Rollout: The CEOs’ View

Alan Shimel | June 12, 2019 | acquisition, CD, cloudbees, feature flags, m&A, testing

As Mike Vizard reported yesterday, CloudBees, as part of its mission to build "the world’s first end-to-end automated software delivery system," announced another acquisition: Rollout, a developer of a feature flag application ...

Datadog Acquires App Dev Testing Platform Madumbo

Mike Vizard | February 13, 2019 | acquisition, application development, application testing, artificial intelligence, Datadoag, m&A, machine learning, Madumbo

Datadog announced it is extending its reach beyond IT monitoring to include application testing by acquiring Madumbo. Madumdo CEO Gabriel-James Safar said it’s become increasingly apparent that application testing needs to be ...

Atlassian Acquires OpsGenie to Automate Incident Management

Mike Vizard | September 7, 2018 | automation, incident management, IT operations, m&A

Atlassian this week announced its plans to acquire OpsGenie as part of an effort to apply DevOps principles to incident management. The announcement was made at the Altassian Summit Europe 2018 conference ...

Tricentis, QASymphony Merge: The Age of Continuous Testing Is Upon Us

Alan Shimel | June 20, 2018 | continuous testing, m&A, QASymphone, tricentis

Big news in the world of continuous testing today as continuous testing market leader Tricentis announced it is merging with QASymphony. Tricentis, a leader of continuous testing, is adding QASymphony's leading testing ...

Microsoft Is Acquiring GitHub for $7.5B, Becomes Steward of Leading Open Source Repository

Mike Vizard | June 4, 2018 | github, m&A, microsoft

As part of its effort to get even closer to the developer community, Microsoft is acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion. GitHub controls the open source repository that is at the center of millions ...

CollabNet Merges with VersionOne for ALM Supremacy

Mike Vizard | August 10, 2017 | alm, ALM platform, application lifecycle management, CollabNet, company acquisition, m&A, mergers and acquisitions, VersionOne

Thanks to the rise of DevOps, there has been a lot of focus on various forms of application lifecycle management (ALM) spanning multiple application development methodologies. But as IT organizations become more ...

PagerDuty acquires Event Enrichment HQ to speed incident resolution

Alan Shimel | November 3, 2015 | incident response, m&A, pagerduty

Together PagerDuty and Event Enrichment HQ Integrate Event and Incident Management I had a chance to speak yesterday with CEO Alex Solomon, PagerDuty's Product VP Jonathon Wilkinson and Ophir Ronen, Event Enrichment HQ Co-Founder ...

CA beefs up DevOps offerings with Grid-Tools acquistion

Alan Shimel | June 5, 2015 | CA, m&A, rally

After a relatively long hiatus from the M&A scene CA seems to be back with bang. Following on the heels of its nearly half a billion buy of Rally Software, CA yesterday ...

IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

News Editor | February 24, 2014 | cloudant, couchdb, DB, DBaaS, ibm, m&A, open source

ARMONK, N.Y. - 24 Feb 2014: IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Boston, MA-based Cloudant, Inc., a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to easily and quickly create next ...