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Nutanix acquisition rumors highlight need for managing vendor risk

CIO Business Intelligence

IBM no longer makes its own servers, but it might focus on integrating the software with its Red Hat Virtualization platform and IBM Cloud, to the detriment of other customers relying on other integrations. If your software vendor is independent then the immediate question is: Is the company buying this one that I’m using?

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

The acquisition will help it extract process data from enterprise systems such as Oracle, SAP, ServiceNow, and Salesforce to identify process bottlenecks that can be optimized or automated. NTT Data adds Vectorform to service portfolio. Equinix buys West African data center company for $320 million.