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Palo Alto Networks is buying Israel-based Secdo, a security company that does endpoint detection and response. These capabilities will be folded into Palo Alto Networks’ Traps endpoint protection product and its new Application Framework, a comprehensive security platform.

Intel is to sell Wind River, provider of Industrial IoT (IIoT) and embedded software, to global alternative asset firm TPG.The independent firm will continue to be led by Wind River president Jim Douglas alongside his existing executive management team, with Douglas saying the move will establish Wind River ‘as a leading independent software provider uniquely positioned to advance digital transformation within critical infrastructure segments.’

VMware acquired the assets of E8 Security, a user and entity behavior analytics company, for an undisclosed amount. The virtualization giant said it will add E8’s security and analytics technology to its digital workspace platform.

A privately-held software company based in Walldorf, Germany, fluidOps empowers organizations to orchestrate, integrate, manage and optimize structured and unstructured data sources housed in silos across on-premises, private, public and hybrid cloud environments.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will purchase startup Cape Networks. The service assurance firm will become part of HPE’s Aruba division. HPE did not reveal how much it paid for the company. The deal is expected to close in late March or early April 2018.

Palo Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW), the next-generation security company, announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Evident.io, a pioneer and leader in public cloud services infrastructure protection. For Palo Alto Networks, the transaction will extend its leadership in cloud security and create the only holistic cloud offering to address the critical security needs of today’s enterprise customers as they adopt the cloud.

CyberArk, the global leader in privileged account security, today announced the acquisition of certain assets of privately-held Vaultive, Inc., a cloud security provider. The deal closed today.

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company has signed a definitive agreement to divest Wipro’s hosted data center services business to Ensono, a leading hybrid IT services provider for USD 405 million.

GTT Communications, Inc. (NYSE: GTT), the leading global cloud networking provider to multinational clients, announced today the acquisition of Accelerated Connections (ACI), a Toronto-headquartered provider of managed networking, voice-over-IP (VoIP) and colocation services, serving large distributed Canadian enterprises.