Bay Area Tech Wire -- March 2

============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- March 2, 2015 ============================================ Sponsored By: Fairfax County Economic Development Authority http://fairfaxcountyeda.org/bay-area-tech-wire o Palo Alto-Based HP to Acquire Aruba Networks in $3 Billion Deal o San Jose-Based Brocade to Acquire Connectem o Lookingglass Acquires Sunnyvale-Based CloudShield o Ganstar Capital Portfolio Company ERT to Acquire PHT o Santa Clara-Based QualiSystems Names Joan Wrabetz as CTO > Do What You're Good At, Not What You Love: Real Talk for Today's Job Seekers. o Briefly Noted: GigOptix, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8x8 _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Principal Analysts, Enterprise Security --Do What You're Good At, Not What You Love: Real Talk for Today's Job Seekers. --Product Marketing Manager - FirstFuel Software - Massachusetts --Senior Level DOT.NET Developer - Washington D.C. - Kennedy Center --Intellectual Property Services/Patent Applications Drafted Ad Descriptions Below Briefly Noted Section Post Job/Event/Marketplace ad: http://www.bayareatechwire.com _____________________________________________ o Palo Alto-Based HP to Acquire Aruba Networks in $3 Billion Deal Palo Alto, Calif. -- Following several days of speculation, Palo Alto-based technology giant HP said on Monday it will acquire Sunnyvale-based Aruba Networks, developer of wireless network infrastructure, in a deal valued at $3 billion. HP will pay $24.67 a share in cash under the deal, which is expected to close by the end of October. The acquisition is expected to boost HP's networking business, with the company relying on Aruba's strong brand and sales structure to sell faster mobile technology to businesses. Dominic Orr, Aruba's CEO, will lead the new "converged campus" business, along with Keerti Melkote, the company's chief strategy and technology officer. "Enterprises are facing a mobile-first world and are looking for solutions that help them transition legacy investments to the new style of IT," said Meg Whitman, the chairman, president and CEO of HP. Aruba has approximately 1,800 employees and posted revenue of $729 million last fiscal year. The acquisition is a departure for HP, which recently has been in cost-cutting mode and plans to split into two independent companies later this year. http://www.hp.com  http://www.arubanetworks.com/  http://www.arubanetworks.com/aruba-networks-hp-to-join-forces/  _____________________________________________ o San Jose-Based Brocade to Acquire Connectem San Jose, Calif. -- Brocade, the San Jose-based networking technology giant, said it will pay an unspecified amount of cash to acquire Spain-based Connectem, a developer of virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) technology. The deal is expected to close by the end of April. Brocade said the acquisition will bolster its software networking and virtualized network functions, enabling service providers and enterprises to offer connectivity between mobile and Internet of Things devices, data centers, as well as public and private clouds. "We believe the Connectem technology is a key enabler for emerging markets including IOT, M2M, Industrial Internet and enterprise mobile data services," said CTO Ken Cheng. Connectem will operate as part of Brocade's Emerging Business Group. http://www.brocade.com  http://newsroom.brocade.com/press-releases/brocade-to-acquire-connectem-extends-leadership-i-nasdaq-brcd-1178632#.VPTRiHzF_ng _____________________________________________ o Lookingglass Acquires Sunnyvale-Based CloudShield Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Lookingglass Cyber Solutions, a Virginia-based developer of threat intelligence technology, said on Monday it has acquired CloudShield, a Sunnyvale-based developer of a Deep Packet Processing (DPP) platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The news follows a year in which Lookingglass saw revenue growth of 240%. "The time was right to make this strategic move," said CEO Chris Coleman. "Our acquisition of CloudShield will help us deliver critical solutions to the market." CloudShield will operate as a division of Lookingglass and will be headquartered in Arlington. The combined company, which plans to deliver a comprehensive cyber network defense platform, will have more than 130 employees with a national presence spanning from the Washington, DC area to Silicon Valley. http://www.lgscout.com http://www.cloudshield.com/  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150302005100/en/Lookingglass-Completes-Acquisition-CloudShield#.VPSgcXzF_ng _____________________________________________ o Ganstar Capital Portfolio Company ERT to Acquire PHT San Francisco -- Genstar Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, said Monday that Philadelphia-based portfolio company eResearchTechnology (ERT), a provider of patient data collection tools, will acquire Boston-based PHT, a developer of mobile apps for clinical research. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the next several weeks, were not disclosed. The combined company will offer tools for patient endpoint collection and data analytics for global clinical trials. Genstar acquired ERT three years ago in a deal valued at $400 million. http://www.ert.com  http://www.gencap.com  https://www.ert.com/latest-news/ert-to-acquire-pht-corporation/  _____________________________________________ o Santa Clara-Based QualiSystems Names Joan Wrabetz as CTO Santa Clara, Calif. -- QualiSystems, a Santa Clara-based provider of DevOps orchestration and automation tools for IT infrastructure, on Monday named Joan Wrabetz as its CTO. Wrabetz most recently served as the vice president and CTO for EMC's Emerging Products Division, and previously was the founder and CEO of data analytics company Aumni Data. QualiSystems produces DevOps orchestration and automation tools for IT infrastructure, network, development and test organizations. http://www.qualisystems.com  http://www.qualisystems.com/press-releases/qualisystems-names-former-emc-technologist-joan-wrabetz-as-new-cto/  _____________________________________________ Do What You're Good At, Not What You Love: Real Talk for Today's Job Seekers. While "follow your passion" is popular career advice, it isn't necessarily the best career advice. Here, we share five compelling reasons why matching your job to your skill set, not your biggest passion, is a much better bet. http://fairfaxcountyeda.org/bay-area-tech-wire _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based GigOptix, a supplier of semiconductor and optical communications components, said on Monday it has opened its Japanese headquarters in Tokyo. The company also has named Yoshi Koizumi as its Asia Pacific sales director. Koizumi previously managed the sales operations of TriQuint Semiconductor in Japan. http://ir.gigoptix.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=225697&p=RssLanding&cat=news&id=2021596  (Menlo Park, Calif.) Menlo Park-based venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) on Monday named Scott Smith, the COO of Iridium Communications, as a part-time operating partner. Smith will help identify and advise portfolio companies in what BVP calls the emerging "spacetech" sector. http://www.bvp.com/space  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150302005347/en/Iridium-COO-Scott-Smith-Joins-Bessemer-Venture#.VPSitHzF_ng  (San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based 8x8, a provider of cloud-based unified communications and contact center tools, said on Monday it will repurchase up to $20 million in stock under a new buyback program. The company had $187.9 million in cash, cash equivalents and investments as of Dec. 31. 8x8 recently completed $15 million of share repurchases under a previous program announced last July. http://investors.8x8.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=899164 =================================================== Job/Event/Marketplace Listings: =================================================== To Post in Job/Event/Marketplace: http://www.bayareatechwire.com 7,000 Readers: 5 day ad: $120--10 day ad: $175--20 day ad: $300 > Principal Analysts, Enterprise Security Current Analysis, a Progressive Digital Media company, is seeking a Principal Analyst to work in our Enterprise Security group with expertise spanning secure messaging, data security and governance, firewall/VPN and intrusion prevention and detection. 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