Surviving the Consolidating IT Market

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StorageCraft Acquires Exablox – Our Initial Comments

On January 19, 2017, Exablox, a young data storage system company, announced that it is being acquired by StorageCraft, a family of companies, founded in 2003, that makes backup  and recovery software. Neuralytix predicted that there would be considerable...

HPE to Acquire SimpliVity – Our Initial Comments

On January 17, 2017, HP Enterprise (HPE) announced its intention to acquire hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) firm SimpliVity for $650M in cash. This acquisition is a result of several months of speculation that such a deal would happen. From a deal perspective,...

Kaminario raises $75M in new funding

On January 11, 2017, Kaminario, an all-flash storage company, announced that it had received an additional $75M in funding led by Waterwood, a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology companies and CIRTech, a venture capital firm that invests across...