Black Box acquires assets of KVM-over-IP specialist Cloudium Systems
April 13, 2016
Black Box says the move enables it to offer new classes of KVM products for critical control center and data visualization applications.
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On April 11, Black Box Corporation (NASDAQ: BBOX) announced its acquisition of technology and intellectual property from Cloudium Systems Limited (Cloudium), a privately held company headquartered in Limerick, Ireland. Black Box says it will use the Cloudium assets to strengthen its position in the high-performance KVM and KVM-over-IP marketplace.
The Cloudium development team also will join Black Box. The company acquisition complements Black Box's portfolio of hardware solutions with software and development experience in the AV/IT enterprise management and virtualization space, allowing Black Box to address growing customer needs for integrated control room and IoT data visualization solutions, it says.
"Black Box's product growth strategy is to expand our core assets with software and services that offer a complete solution to current and emerging target markets," comments Josh Whitney, VP of technology product solutions and international services at Black Box. "We will leverage Cloudium's development capabilities and existing patents to deliver mission-critical KVM systems. Additionally, we plan to deploy their AV/IT Enterprise Management platform to differentiate and round out our portfolio of Control Room and Data Visualization solutions."
"Given our close partnership in the past, we've seen firsthand the many benefits of our relationship with Black Box," concludes John Hickey, former CEO of Cloudium and senior director of R&D and KVM systems for Black Box. "The combination of our systems development experience in the KVM space combined with Black Box's incredible reach and strong brand recognition will create significant value for clients."
