Data centers

Intel acquires Barefoot Networks, a potential Broadcom rival. Barefoot develops Ethernet switch silicon & software for data centers, cloud & 5G wireless networks.

Node4, a communications MSP, acquires VMware & Microsoft Azure cloud services partner Secura. This is Node4's fifth acquisition. Here's the strategy.

DXC Technology acquires Credit Suisse data center for colocation and managed services push in New York financial services vertical market.

Park Place Technologies acquires MCSA Group, an IT services & solutions provider. The companies will focus on third party data center hardware maintenance.

Nvidia acquires Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 billion. The deal extends Nvidia's chips from video game & cryptocurrency use cases deeper into data centers & high performance computing (HPC).

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) provider Nutanix continues to show some anecdotal momentum with MSPs (managed services providers).

Dell Technologies increases its revenue estimates for the rest of fiscal 2019, suggesting the data center hardware giant is gaining momentum ahead of Dell's proposed ownership shift to public markets.

Lenovo's data center revenues rose 68 percent to $1.6 billion in Q1 fiscal 2019. Demand for software-defined infrastructure, high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence and hyperscale solutions grew.