INE Acquires CloudSkills.io

Cornerstone OnDemand Acquires SkyHive's Skills-Intelligence Capabilities

May 22, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

Cornerstone OnDemand acquired the workforce skills intelligence capabilities and team from SkyHive Technologies Holdings Inc., integrating SkyHive's AI-powered skills platform and labor-market data into Cornerstone Galaxy. The deal expands Cornerstone's reskilling and talent-intelligence capabilities, adding predictive labor-market insights, automated job architecture management, and domain experts to accelerate customers' skills-based workforce transformation.

Pluralsight Acquires A Cloud Guru

July 8, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Pluralsight, backed by Vista Equity Partners, acquired A Cloud Guru (ACG), a leading cloud skills development and hands-on learning platform, to create an all-in-one solution for cloud skill development across enterprise and individual customers. The deal, announced in June 2021 and closed July 8, 2021, combines ACG's certification courses, labs and sandboxes with Pluralsight Skills to expand Pluralsight's cloud capabilities and better serve large enterprise customers.

A Cloud Guru Acquires Linux Academy

December 16, 2019

Education

A Cloud Guru has acquired Linux Academy to combine the two companies' cloud training content and hands-on labs, creating what the buyers describe as the world’s largest cloud computing training platform. The deal brings together complementary course libraries across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, DevOps and security to accelerate product innovation and expand training offerings for individual learners and enterprise customers.

Improving Acquires InfraCloud to Expand Cloud-Native and AI Capabilities in Asia

April 15, 2025

IT Services

Improving, a PE-backed digital services firm, has acquired InfraCloud, a Pune-based cloud-native and AI cloud services company. The acquisition expands Improving's application modernization and AI cloud capabilities and increases its development presence in Asia while InfraCloud's leadership remains in place.

nClouds Acquires Cloudnexa

October 5, 2023

Cloud & SaaS

nClouds, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, has acquired Cloudnexa, another AWS Premier partner, to combine cloud operations, security and compliance capabilities. The deal—completed by nClouds (which is backed by Charles Thayne Capital)—creates one of the largest pure-play AWS partners in North America and strengthens the combined firm's offerings across public sector, healthcare, fintech and other industries.

Zscaler Acquires Cloudneeti

April 9, 2020

Cybersecurity

Zscaler announced the intent to acquire Cloudneeti, a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) startup, to extend Zscaler's Cloud Security Platform with public-cloud misconfiguration detection and automated remediation capabilities. The acquisition will broaden Zscaler's data protection coverage across SaaS, IaaS and PaaS environments; terms were not disclosed and the deal was expected to close prior to Zscaler's fiscal third quarter.