Silicon Labs buy of Bluegiga boosts IoT offerings
Silicon Laboratories has acquired Finland’s Bluegiga Technologies for $61 million in a cash deal that the company said will expand its connectivity portfolio for the “Internet of Things.”
Privately held Bluegiga is an independent provider of short-range wireless connectivity solutions for IoT.
Bluegiga’s modules, software and development tools complement Silicon Labs’ ZigBee, Thread and sub-GHz solutions for IoT applications, a Silicon Labs spokesman said. Its portfolio includes ultra-low-power Bluetooth Smart, Bluetooth Classic, and Wi-Fi modules, as well as software stacks, development tools and software development kits.
Silicon Labs will continue operations in Finland, and continue to develop, market and support a portfolio of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi module products and software stacks for global customers.
Meanwhile, Austin, Texas-based Silicon Labs reported record fourth-quarter revenue of $161.9 million, beating analyst earnings estimates. The company saw its shares jump by more than 8% on Feb. 4 in response to the results.
Cloudera snaps up Xplain.io
Big data platform company Cloudera has acquired self-service data analytics firm Xplain.io for an undisclosed amount.
The deal is not a surprise considering the companies’ history of working together.
Xplain.io was incorporated by CEO Anupam Singh and Rituparna Agrawal in a small shed in Singh’s backyard in late 2013. In the summer of 2014, the company started mapping out an integrated product offering with Mike Olson and Charles Zedlewski at Cloudera. Once they started delving into the strategy of integrating Xplain.io into CDH, they realized that building a product “would make for a much more powerful and useful tool for our customers,” according to Singh.
This week, Singh said the majority of his firm’s more than 100 users have adopted CDH at the core of their Hadoop-based enterprise data hubs.
“In fact, they ask us time and again to ensure that we work closely with Cloudera, as they see multifold benefits when our technologies operate together,” Singh said in a prepared statement. “Our joint expertise benefits customers by providing them data management tools for building the most powerful big data analytic platform.”
Hadoop, an open-sourced software framework, is one of the biggest names in big data analytics.
Cloudera believes self-service analytics will drive growth for its enterprise segment while Xplain.io’s technology will help boost customer adoption of CDH, the leading Hadoop distribution.
“The business intelligence industry has demonstrated that analytics is moving to a self-service model,” said Zedlewski, VP of products for Cloudera, in a statement. “The ability for end-users to find and analyze their own data makes teams more productive, companies more agile and frees BI experts for more value-added tasks.”
