The commission will give clearance to a proposed merger if they are satisfied that the merger is unlikely to have the effect of substantially lessening competition in a market.

“Cray is a global technology leader in supercomputing and shares our deep commitment to innovation."

Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence are causing ‘unprecedented’ growth for mergers and acquisitions, as companies grapple for their share of an AI market that will be worth $190 billion by 2025.

“I am confident this partnership with EQT and Digital Colony will empower Zayo to accelerate its growth and strengthen its industry leadership.”

Qlik says it will make sure that Attunity products continue to support and integrate with all the market's leading cloud, data, analytics and business intelligence environments.

DC BLOX has signalled its intentions for expansion in the southeastern United States with the addition of Ploid to bolster its arsenal.

The company says it will continue to expand its wireless network through Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne in order to provide high-speed B2B internet services to more businesses.

In a vote cast yesterday, 66.08% of the 396,973,029 shares voted. Of those, 99.29% were in favour of the acquisition. 0.71% voted against.

The idea of hybrid cloud has immersed the world of IT since its inception, and now Pure Storage is accelerating its vision.

In a move it says is ‘another completion of the infrastructure puzzle’, 5G Networks (5GN) has announced the acquisition of Melbourne Data Centre (MDC).

Park Place will take over all of the UK-based business-critical IT services and solution provider’s business across six offices in the UK, including one in Scotland.

In a major business manoeuvre, ON Semiconductor has announced the acquisition of Quantenna Communications.

Webroot former CFO John Post will lead the new Webroot business unit as senior vice president and general manager. He will report to Carbonite president and CEO Mohamad Ali.

Versent announced its acquisition of Sydney-based, actionable insights business, Contexti.

According to ScaleMatrix, the move is to take advantage of the latter company’s focus on providing ruggedized micro data centers for the edge.

The acquired company, NGINX, will continue to operate as a brand, working with and for the F5 leadership.

The announcement of NVIDIA's largest ever acquisition follows months of speculation involving other potential bids from the likes of Microsoft and Intel.

“Partnerships with global leaders like Bridgewest are extremely hard to come by in New Zealand, which makes this new relationship all the more exciting for our team.”

MC DIgital Realty - a 50/50 joint venture between Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty - has reached an agreement to acquire a five-acre land parcel in Tokyo.

The acquisition will introduce financial grade, turn-key, Tier III data centers to the local markets, which historically have not been available for lease.

The Swiss company has reached an agreement to acquire cloud transformation company RightCloud for an undisclosed amount.

The acquisition provides Qlik with an expanded breadth of enterprise data management capabilities and adds an experienced team of data professionals.

"The merger creates a single organisation providing end-to-end IT management and cloud technology services unrivalled in New Zealand."

Google is currently behind AWS and Microsoft in the cloud battle, and it would seem this play is an attempt to claw some ground back.