Comments on: CA Continues Cloud-focused Buying Spree, Acquires Nimsoft

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Did Rackspace Buy Cloudkick to Keep Up With AWS?: Cloud « — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:39:04 +0000

[...] to offer monitoring and management tools is clear, but Rackspace already has a partnership with CA-owned Nimsoft. I suspect the purchase was spurred by a desire to compete more closely with Amazon Web [...]

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Cloudkick Moves (Quickly) Into the Hot Hybrid Cloud Market — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:07:54 +0000

[...] operating without competition in the hybrid monitoring space. The field actually is quite small, but recent CA purchase Nimsoft is another third party offering single-pane-of-glass monitoring of internal and external resources, [...]

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sharp as a marble | Enterprise Cloud Adoption Is Changing the Playing Field — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:11:28 +0000

[...] a wise move, as enterprises aren’t going to hop wholesale into the cloud. CA has also recently decided to acquire several startups aimed at performing a similar support function for corporate customers trying out infrastructure, [...]

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By: CA Buys Nimsoft on the Way Up into the Clouds | ScienceLogic

CA Buys Nimsoft on the Way Up into the Clouds | ScienceLogic — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:07:38 +0000

[...] obtain a first mover advantage (from a set of recent acquisitions: 3Tera, Oblicore, Cassatt, and now Nimsoft) that becomes hard to displace for slower moving multinational Tier 1 technology companies. [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:05:38 +0000

$350 million? Seems like a lot...from a Google search, Nimsoft had $32 million in revenue for 2009 (interestingly $41.5mil in 2008) but they were also cash flow positive for the last 4 quarters. Does $350 seem high to anyone else? I think CA bought NetQoS for roughly 5x sales...