Other companies mentioned include Bluelock, CSC, Fujitsu, GoGrid, Joyent, Rackspace, Savvis, SoftLayer, Terremark, and Tier 3.

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Open Stack cloud services company, SoftLayer, seems to be doing the acquisition dance with a couple of suitors at the moment.

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Also interested in acquiring the Dallas, Texas-based SoftLayer is (or was) EMC, the Massachusetts-based information management and storage firm.

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Computer Technologies Consultants partnered with SoftLayer, Inc.

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