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Nutanix acquisition rumors highlight need for managing vendor risk

CIO Business Intelligence

The question is topical: Hyperconverged infrastructure vendor Nutanix, used by many enterprises to unify their private and public clouds, has been the subject of takeover talk ever since Bain Capital invested $750 million in it in August 2020. It also offered a hardware appliance, OmniCube, built on OEM servers from Dell.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

Equinix buys West African data center company for $320 million. Global data center operator Equinix expanded its capability and connectivity in West Africa in early April with the $320 million acquisition of MainOne, which offers services in Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte d’Ivoire. IBM buys Salesforce specialist 7Summits.