Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems     by Manlio Allegra       Home         Topics: Main | M&A | Funding | Earnings | Jobs | People | Bankruptcy | Silicon | Europe | Japan | Most Acquisitive | Archive   Cisco to Acquire Tidal Software for $105 Million Cisco agreed to acquire privately held Tidal Software for approximately $105 million in cash and retention-based incentives. Tidal Software's mission is to automate many of the complex and routine tasks associated with day-to-day application management: job scheduling and performance monitoring. From a single console, Tidal can create an optimized view of application operations across an enterprise. The company is based in Palo Alto, California and Houston, Texas. Cisco said Tidal Software's intelligent solutions will bolster its data center strategy by providing timely, accurate and cost-efficient management and automation of application performance across entire business operations, from the server through the network to the desktop. The acquisition is also expected to create significant opportunities for Cisco and its partners through the delivery of partner-led services, leveraging Cisco's application management capabilities. Cisco is pioneering the development of next-generation data centers that unleash the full power of virtualization. It recently unveiled its vision of Unified Computing, an evolutionary data center architecture which unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization resources in a single cohesive system. Upon the close of the acquisition, the Tidal Software team will become part of the Cisco Advanced Services organization. The acquisition is subject to various standard closing conditions and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2009. http://www.cisco.com http://www.tidalsoftware.com/ 10-Apr-09 Tidal Software is headed by Flint Brenton, who has held the post since March, 2003. Formerly Senior Vice President & General Manager of NetIQ's Security & Administration business unit, Flint has held leadership positions at NetIQ, Compaq Computer Corporation, BMC Software and IBM. Recent Financial News Cisco to Acquire Arch Rock for Wireless Energy Sensors 9/2/2010 Alcatel-Lucent Acquires OpenPlug, Extending its Application Enablement Strategy 9/1/2010 NSN Partners with Telefónica on Smartphone Experience Lab 8/30/2010 Intel Confirms Acquisition of Infineon Wireless 8/30/2010 Cisco to Acquire ExtendMedia for Video Content Management 8/26/2010 Nimbula Raises $15 Million for Cloud OS 8/25/2010 HP Bids $24 per Share for 3PAR, Topping Dell 8/23/2010 Nokia to Acquire Motally for Mobile Analytics Service 8/20/2010 ZTE Reports 1H 2010 Revenue of US$4.5 Billion 8/19/2010 China Mobile Appoints Mr. Li Yue as CEO 8/19/2010 China Mobile Tops 554 Million Customers 8/19/2010 Airband and Sparkplug Announce Merger -- Fixed Wireless Operators 8/19/2010 Marvell Acquires DS2 for Powerline Chips 8/19/2010 Marvell Posts Revenue of $896 Million, Up 5% Sequentially 8/19/2010 Brocade Posts Revenue of $504 Million, up 2% YOY 8/18/2010 > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton