socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Calabasas-based Ixia said Wednesday that it has signed a definitive agreement to buy a product line from Agilent Technologies, in a deal worth $44M in cash. Ixia said the deal includes N2X's customers, sales, and R&D teams. The firm said it was advised by Moelis & Company and Bryan Cave LLP in the deal.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Our marquis customers are companies like Citibank and Lowe's Corporation, along with many others. We are handling IT processes which are normally the purview of large players like BMC and CA Technology, HP, and IBM--considered the Big 4 in IT administration. The technology has just exploded. The automation we provide is unique.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2012

To do that, we spoke with Vic Alston , the CEO of Calabasas-based Ixia (www.ixiacom.com), a publicly traded maker of network testing equipment and software. The other thing we see there, is we don't want to compete with our customers. It's about 500M in size today, but the key distinction is it's growing pretty fast 30-40% CAGR.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The clean technology sector is infamous for taking a big toll on startups--requiring large investments, risky technology propositions, steep international competition, and fickle government policies. Because you're in an emerging market, your funding initially for sales and marketing is very small.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

We spoke with Therese Tucker , CEO and founder of the Calabasas firm. Therese Tucker: My background is technology. It's unusual to have a CEO from the technology side, they're usually from sales. Therese is the former CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and has a wealth of experience in the financial software market.

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