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Over the past few months there has been a flurry of activity in the security space. Since the summer many of the major players in the enterprise content management arena appear to be buying all around them.
 

While it normally takes companies a considerable amount of time to close acquisition deals, HP has closed the Fortify deal in almost record time and is already looking at how to integrate security analytics products. IBM has also been buying security for business analytics and if you thought Agility and GRC are like chalk and cheese, think again!

Over the past year there has been a good deal of talk about HP (news, site) and tablets. Its latest release brings a web-enabled tablet to its printers that will enable users to, amongst other things, search for content across the web and then print it out.

If anyone was still in doubt as to what Larry Ellison thinks of the cloud, or what Oracle (news, site) is going to do with Sun Microsystems, the launch on Sunday of the Exalogic Elastic Cloud should put an end to all the speculation.

With OpenWorld only a weekend away Oracle (news, site) couldn’t have gone into it on a higher note than the publication of its Q1 earnings that showed a 20% increase in net income and a 48% rise in revenues.

With both Microsoft and HP paying more and more attention to the SMB market and with the recession now behind us (we hope!), both are hoping small companies will start upgrading their IT networks. With this in mind both are preparing new servers specifically for this space, while Google aims to teach SMBs how to spend their online advertising budgets.

Underlining its growing interest in security products and solutions, IBM (news, site) has just announced that it is to buy Open Pages, a MA-based company that develops risk and compliance software for business.

When the deal is closed, IBM intends to add the company to its business analytics portfolio rather than to the Tvioli part of its business that benefitted from the BixFix security acquisition last July, an indication that Open Pages will be sold as part of its data analytics packages on which IBM has spent a whole pile of money over the last ten years.

This week there has been a lot of talk about security. IBM is concerned about data security, HP acquisition of ArcSight adds network security and McAfee is concerned about free content and security. For compliance, Vertify released its new PIM compliance software, while Protiviti releases portal for multilingual governance.

This week in the SMB space we see HP continuing its overtures to the SMB market, which it started earlier this year. While it has already spent time and money targeting larger SMBs, this time it’s going for the micro market. Meanwhile Salesforce.com offers Jigsaw now and mobile Chatter later.

After two weeks of bids and counter bids, Dell (news, site) finally announced last night that it was pulling out of the race to acquire data storage provider 3Par. As a result, it is now likely that HP (news, site) will acquire the Fremont, CA, company for the US$ 2.35 billion final offer that has been accepted by the boards of HP and 3Par.

The battle to secure storage software provider 3Par (news, site) has a way to run yet. There are now rumors circulating that Dell (news, site) is getting ready to come back with a sweetner to the US$ 1.6 billion that HP offered for the same company yesterday,.

The rise of Information Management as a business priority seems inexorable. But how do you go about taming the beast?

Seems security has been high on everyone’s list of priorities this week with FaceTime releasing its Socialite software to secure social networks, and HP buying Fortify to add application security at the blueprint stage. Not surprising though, after recent research from Gartner showing security software is a priority for enterprises.

More acquisition news today. This time, from Dell (news, site)  that has just announced an intention to buy data storage vendor 3Par for US$ 1.15 billion in a deal that, the buyer says, will enable it to cut enterprise data management costs by up to 50%.

A done deal since the end of April this year, HP (news, site) has just announced that it has completed the acquisition of Palm for US$ 1.2 bn continuing HP’s growth in the smartphone market that is now estimated to be worth US$ 100 billion.