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July was a big month for the virtualization automation tools market segment. In early July Dell swooped in and acquired Scalent and last week Quest acquired Surgient so we have decided to pull together an acquisitions table of transactions in this space. As with our other acquisition tables we’ll update this as new transactions occur and/or as our readers point out what we have overlooked.
Virtualization Automation Tools Acquisition Table
| Date | Acquiree | Acquirer | Revenue Estimate | Investors | Acquisition Price |
| 6/16/06 | Akimbi | VMware | Under $10M? | $8M — Mayfield, Hummer WInblad and Partech. | ??? |
| 3/31/08 | PlateSpin | Novell | $30M? | $7.5M Insight, Covington Capital Corporation, Castle Hill Ventures, Skylon Capital Corp and Four Quarters | $205M |
| 5/13/09 | Virtual Iron | Oracle | <$20M? | $65M Intel Capital, SAP Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs & Co | ??? |
| 7/1/10 | Scalent | Dell | $15M? | Credit Suisse First Boston, Pequot Capital Management, Inc., JK&B Capital, and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners V, L.P. | ??? |
| 7/29/10 | Surgient | Quest | $25M? | $33M Venture Investment: Goldman Sachs, Crosslink Capital, Austin Ventures, BlueStream Ventures, Seaport Capital, Sternhill partners + private investors | ??? |
IRG announced the release of its latest report on technology infrastructure, entitled OpenFlow: A Revolution in Network Architecture, which principal Peter Christy As discussed in a free webinar on January 6, 2011.
July was a big month for the virtualization automation tools market segment. In early July Dell swooped in and acquired Scalent and last week Quest acquired Surgient so we have decided to pull together an …
Listen to the replay of Peter Christy’s recent OpenFlow webinar about the impending revolution in network architectute.
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