Cloud roundup: Citrix (CTXS) invests in cloud platform providerCumuLogic, Dell adds Ramco ERP-as-a-Service. IBM Cloud selected by Toyota Boshoku.

Colt awarded Tier III Design Certification for modular data center, IBM opens data center in Mexico, Schneider UPS achieves ENERGY STAR qualification for several smaller UPS products.

A busy day for deals: IBM to buy Kenexa for $1.3 billion, Rackspace Hosting (RAX) to acquire Mailgun, AppFog has agreement to buy Nodester, Red Hat purchases BPM from Polymita.

IBM has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Texas Memory Systems (TMS), a leading developer of high-performance flash memory solutions, the companies said today.

IBM acquires Vivisimo, Dell and Internet2 partner for collaborative research, Akamai announces succession plan as CEO Paul Sagan plans to retire.

In a major new private-public partnership, IBM, a group of seven universities, and the governments of Canada and Ontario announced a collaboration that will establish a new Ontario-based $210 million dollar centre focused on research and development.

IBM will unveil a new converged computing system Wednesday that will compete with existing offerings from Cisco, HP and Oracle. First Details of the new PureSystems offering began emerging Tuesday night.

IBM has completed its acquisition of Platform Computing, the companies said today. The deal is expected to position IBM for additional gains in "Big Data" management and analysis.

Verizon will upgrade network to enable 100G support, ViaWest selects HP 3PAR for utility storage, Power Assure and ABB collaborate on energy management, Fusion-io (FIO) and IBM selected by backup provider,