Category: Data Storage and Security

Lucite deal toy commemorating the acquisition by Google of Israel-based Alooma, which aids firms in migrating to the cloud.

Custom deal toy marking the acquisition of Portland, Oregon-based online identity management company Janrain. The acquirer was Akamai Technologies, a cybersecurity and content delivery firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Custom crystal tombstone marking the acquisition by French technology company the Thales Group of Gemalto, a Netherlands-based digital security firm.

Custom Lucite tombstone marking the acquisition of Boston-based Zoominfo, a provider of marketing contact database tools. The acquiring firm, DiscoverOrg, is located in Vancouver, Washington.

Cloud-themed crystal tombstone marking the acquisition of RightScale, an Illinois-based software asset management (SAM) firm.

Logo-themed financial tombstone marking the initial public offering of Elastic, a provider of enterprise search software. Goldman Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities acted as joint lead book-running managers for the offering; Barclays Capital and RBC Capital Markets served as book-running managers, along with BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup Global Markets, and Jefferies.

Crystal deal toy commemorating the acquisition of portfolio of data centers by a consortium of firms. The consortium, which included Medina Capital Advisors and Longview Asset Management, has since renamed the portfolio Cyxtera Technologies.

Crystal deal toy commemorating the acquisition by cybersecurity firm Netwrix of Concept Searching. Concept Searching provides semantic metadata generation software.

Custom tombstone marking the acquisition of a majority stake in the Dutch firm Raet. The firm provides human resources (HR) cloud software and services.