- IBM is acquiring Fiberlink Communications, a player in the growing and hotly competitive mobile device management (MDM) software space. Fiberlink also provides mobile security and app management software. As usual, deal terms are undisclosed. (PR)
- The acquisition puts IBM into competition with a list of MDM/app management vendors that includes SAP, Citrix, BlackBerry, and private Good Technology and AirWatch.
- Big Blue says it will add Fiberlink's cloud-based offerings to its MobileFirst enterprise mobile software platform, and will help it deliver "a comprehensive mobile management and security offering" to companies embracing the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend.
- The deal comes six weeks after IBM acquired (in rapid succession) mobile analytics software firm The Now Factory, and mobile messaging/ad promotion firm Xtify.
IBM buys mobile device management/security software firm
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