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CA Technologies to acquire Rally Software

CA Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rally Software Development Corp. (NYSE: RALY), a leading provider of agile development software and services, for $19.50 per share, which equates to approximately $480 million, net of cash acquired. The transaction has been unanimously approved by both Boards of Directors, and is expected to close in the second quarter of CA’s fiscal 2016. Based in Boulder, CO, Rally has approximately 500 employees across four continents and FY...

Proact equips Bol.com with its own data centre infrastructure

Proact is supplying and supporting Bol.com, the largest online retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium, with storage and back-up components for the data centre infrastructure of its online shop.

Saxo Bank selects A10 Networks Thunder ADC

Leading online trading and investment specialist selects A10 for next-generation application delivery controllers to help execute more than 22 million trades a year.

451 Research predicts total data market to hit $115 billion by 2019

Total data market will nearly double in size through 2019.

Sopra Steria obtains double CarbonNeutral certification for all its data centres

IP traffic to triple by 2019

According to the 10th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, annual Internet Protocol (IP) traffic will triple between 2014 and 2019, when it will reach a record 2 zettabytes. Factors expected to drive traffic growth include global increases in Internet users, personal devices and machine-to-machine (M2M) connections, faster broadband speeds, and the adoption of advanced video services. Collectively, these variables are expected to create a global IP traffic compound annual growth...