CA to acquire Nimsoft for $350m in a move that reflects firm's international markets ambition
12 March 2010
IT management software firm CA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Nimsoft in an all-cash transaction valued at $350m. The move is intended to expand the firm's presence in emerging enterprise and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) markets.
Nimsoft has
approximately 800 customers, including nearly 300 MSPs and operates primarily
in the US and Europe. It provides unified monitoring offerings for virtualised
datacentres, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms and SaaS resources.
With the acquisition,
CA expects to add an entirely new set of customers to its base, which has
historically focused on larger companies, and also expand its presence in
growing international markets, where it expects cloud computing and hosted and
managed services to play a central role in business development.
The acquisition
follows CA's recent acquisitions of Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore. Last month,
CA also announced that it would acquire cloud computing infrastructure firm
3Tera, which enables enterprises and service providers to provision, deploy and
scale public and private cloud computing environments.
