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VMware Acquires Blue Lane Technologies

On November 30, 2008, VMware acquired information technology company Blue Lane Technologies for 15M USD

Acquisition Context
  • This is VMware’s 3rd transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is VMware’s 7th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is VMware’s 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is VMware’s 2nd transaction in California.

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M&A Deal Summary
Date November 30, 2008
Target Blue Lane Technologies
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) VMware
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 15M USD

Target Company

Blue Lane Technologies

Cupertino, California, United States
Blue Lane Technologies developed inline patching technology as well as software that shielded virtual machines from security threats in network traffic. Blue Lane's software worked at the hypervisor layer to protect virtual servers by monitoring network traffic for threats and provided real-time protection.
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Buyer

VMware

Palo Alto, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1998
Sector Internet Software and Services
Revenue 12.9B USD (2022)
DESCRIPTION
VMware office in Broomfield, Colorado.
VMware office in Broomfield, Colorado.

VMware is a provider of technologies designed to establish secure and reliable IT environments and address a range of complex IT challenges that include cost reduction, operational inefficiencies, access to cloud computing capacity, business continuity and corporate end-user computing device management. VMware's solutions enable organizations to aggregate multiple servers, storage infrastructure and networks together into shared pools of capacity that can be allocated dynamically, securely and reliably to applications as needed. These internal computing infrastructures can be dynamically extended by customers to the public cloud environment. VMware was formed in 1998 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Deal Context for Buyer #
Overall 5 of 44
Sector: Information Technology 3 of 14
Type: Add-on Acquisition 5 of 42
State: California 2 of 27
Country: United States 3 of 40
Year: 2008 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 7 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-01-15 Thinstall

San Francisco, California, United States

Thinstall is an application virtualization software company headquartered in San Francisco. Thinstall decouples applications from underlying operating systems, improving isolation and portability for applications across desktop environments.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-08-10 SpringSource

San Mateo, California, United States

SpringSource is a provider of Java application infrastructure and management. SpringSource provides a complete suite of software products that accelerate the entire build, run, manage enterprise Java application lifecycle.

Buy $362M

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