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Atos continues acquiring cloud consulting companies that have Salesforce, Snowflake, Mulesoft & cybersecurity expertise.

8x8 acquires enterprise Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) provider Fuze for $250 million in stock & cash. UCaaS M&A activity remains strong.

Managed cybersecurity and IT solutions provider Meriplex has acquired managed services provider Optimum Networking.

Only 17% of small businesses have cyber insurance coverage, but more than seven in 10 purchased policies after suffering cyberattacks, AdvisorSmith said.

10 of 20 acquisitions under IBM CEO Arvind Krishna involve cloud consulting companies, pitting IBM Consulting against Accenture & the like.

It's crunch time - Q4 is upon us, and KLA Group's Kendra Lee has six tips for moving toward your year-end sales goals.

Private equity firm Clearlake Capital acquires Quest Software from Francisco Partners. IT management & security software business valuation: $5.4B, 10.9X EBITDA, report indicated.

Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami sees more opportunities for Nutanix to do more work with global system integrators that have HCI & cloud expertise.