{"id":12638,"date":"2015-03-03T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3306139"},"modified":"2015-03-03T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:00:00","slug":"hp-to-acquire-arubanetworks-cloudexpo-hp-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/hp-to-acquire-arubanetworks-cloudexpo-hp-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"HP to Acquire @ArubaNetworks | @CloudExpo @HP [#Cloud]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HP and Aruba Networks on Monday announced a definitive agreement for HP to acquire Aruba, a provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise, for $24.67 per share in cash. The equity value of the transaction is approximately $3.0 billion, and net of cash and debt approximately $2.7 billion. Both companies&#8217; boards of directors have approved the deal.<br \/>\n&#8220;Enterprises are facing a mobile-first world and are looking for solutions that help them transition legacy investments to the new style of IT,&#8221; said Meg Whitman, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of HP. &#8220;By combining Aruba&#8217;s world-class wireless mobility solutions with HP&#8217;s leading switching portfolio, HP will offer the simplest, most secure networking solutions to help enterprises easily deploy next-generation mobile networks.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3306139\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HP and Aruba Networks on Monday announced a definitive agreement for HP to acquire Aruba, a provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise, for $24.67 per share in cash. The equity value of the transaction is approximate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}