Cisco announced its intent to acquire CloudLock Inc., a privately held cloud security company based in Waltham, Massachusetts. CloudLock specializes in cloud access security broker (CASB) technology that provides enterprises with visibility and analytics around user behavior and sensitive data in cloud services, including SaaS, IaaS and PaaS. The acquisition is intended to further enhance Cisco's security portfolio and build on Cisco's Security Everywhere strategy, designed to provide protection from the cloud to the network to the endpoint.

Siemens and Gamesa have signed binding agreements to merge Siemens' wind power business, including wind services, with Gamesa to create a leading global wind power player. Siemens will receive newly issued shares of the combined company and will hold 59 percent of the share capital while Gamesa's existing shareholders will hold 41 percent.

Kewill, a leading provider of innovative software for supply chain execution, has announced agreement to purchase LeanLogistics from parent Brambles, Limited. LeanLogistics is a global leader in transportation solutions for shippers, with hundreds of TMS customers across the US and Europe, and a supporting network of over 14,000 carriers. Their cloud-based platform reliably manages and optimizes over $10 billion of annualized freight spend for their customers.

Space‐Time Insight, Inc., a leading provider of situational intelligence solutions, today announced the acquisition of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) company GOFACTORY. With the acquisition of GOFACTORY, Space-Time Insight strengthens its leadership in real-time visual analytics with the addition of proven IIoT technologies and deep industry expertise.

IoT services monetization to be the core of the alliance value proposition for enterprises

L&T Technology Services Limited ("L&T Technology Services"), announced its collaboration with Redknee Solutions Inc, a leading provider of real-time monetization solutions. The alliance will offer a complete architecture for enterprises to enable connectivity, analytics and monetization for the Internet of Things ("IoT").

Aspen Technology, Inc., a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, announced it has acquired Fidelis Group, LLC of Lake Jackson, Texas. Fidelis is a leading provider of asset reliability software that process industry companies use to predict and optimize asset performance. Customers use the software to mitigate risk and achieve significant capital expense savings and increased availability.

Cisco and IBM announced a global collaboration to provide instant Internet of Things (IoT) insight at the network edge. Now, businesses and organizations in remote and autonomous locations will be able to tap the combined power of IBM's Watson IoT and business analytics technologies and Cisco's edge analytics capabilities to more deeply understand and act on critical data on the network edge.

On May 25, Intel signed a definitive agreement to acquire Itseez Inc., an expert in Computer Vision (CV) algorithms and implementations for embedded and specialized hardware. Itseez contributes software tuning and integration in many market-leading products shipping today from cars to security systems and more. This acquisition furthers Intel's efforts to win in IoT market segments, like automotive and video, where the ability to electronically perceive and understand images paves the way for innovation and opportunity.

TCS' Business and Healthcare IT Expertise Offers New Solutions on GE Health Cloud for its Customers

Tata Consultancy Services, (TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, announced that as a strategic partner of GE Healthcare and GE Digital, it will develop innovative digital solutions on the GE Health Cloud to deliver benefits to its customers across the healthcare industry.

Telit Communications PLC, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), has entered into an agreement with SAP to license and resell the Telit deviceWISE IoT platform.