4 Tech Stock Stories Ready for a Monday Download

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN): Closing price $286.21

On Sunday afternoon, the cloud provider Amazon Web Services experienced a 59-minute outage because of problems with its U.S.-EAST datacenter. The event began at around 4 p.m. Eastern Time subsequent to connectivity difficulties in the North Virginia datacenter, which led to higher API error rates in the region.

This in turn led to “degraded experience,” said the AWS status page, which caused a “small number of EC2 instances [becoming] unreachable due to packet loss in a single [availability zone].” Last week, the Services saw downtime that lasted some 25 minutes, but most websites running on the AWS cloud were not affected.

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VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW): Closing price $86.52

On Monday at VMworld 2013, VMware announced a series of new products and services created to help information tech step up its adoption of a software-defined data center architecture and take advantage of the value of advanced virtualization in areas like networking and security, storage and availability, and management and automation.

The news was revealed at the firm’s 10th annual VMworld in San Francisco where over 22,000 attendees saw first-hand details and demos of newly-introduced tech, including VMware Virtual SAN, VMware NSX, VMware vCloud Suite 5.5, and VMware vSphere with Operations Management 5.5.

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Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM): Closing price $13.96

The communications solutions provider announced Monday it will be purchased by an affiliate of Wasserstein & Co. at $14.15 per share in cash. The purchase price marks a premium of 21.9 percent over the close on January 14, 2013 — the day on which Globecomm said that it had retained Needham & Co. to assist it in a review of potential strategic alternatives so as to enhance shareholder value. The transaction is valued at roughly $340 million.

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Ubiquiti Networks Inc. (NASDAQ:UBNT): Closing price $32.87

Ubiquity said Monday that it has shipped its one millionth UniFi enterprise Wi-Fi access point, moving the company to 4th in unit market share in only two years, according to Gartner Research. To commemorate this important milestone, the one millionth UniFi access point is plated in 24-karat gold. Ubiquiti will reveal the purchaser of the Golden AP upon discovery.

The firm is experiencing similar success throughout its business. It shipped its 10 millionth device — across all product lines — in December and was recently listed as the 70th fastest-growing tech company in Deloitte’s Fast 500.

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