IT automation software vendor Tideway Systems has raised a further $27 million Series C financing, led by new investor Scottish Equity Partners. This latest funding brings the total equity investment in Tideway to $37.5 million, including follow-on investments from APAX, senior management and other existing investors.

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Enigmatec Corporation is partnering with Scalent Systems to combine its run book automation software with Scalent’s infrastructure virtualization software for large data centers. The partnership will enable policy driven automation of server repurposing to dynamically place compute resources where and when they are needed in the data center. This implementation of “real-time infrastructure” lowers data center management operations costs and increases the flexibility to react to business change.

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Intel has introduced two low-voltage 45 nanometer (nm) Quad-Core Xeon processors for servers and workstations that run at 50 watts, or just 12.5 watts per core and frequencies as high as 2.50 GigaHertz (GHz).

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Santa Clara-based automation vendor Fastscale has introduced the latest release of its flagship Fastscale Composer Suite 2.0, designed to automate the process of building, deploying and managing server-based software environments.

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Industry speculation places Software AG as interested in acquiring Iona Technologies, which announced it has received an “unsolicited preliminary expression of interest” that might lead to a formal offer.

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Financial data vendor Xignite will debut Splice Studio, a Web Services mashup tool, at today’s Web Services on Wall Street conference. Splice allows the easy integration of individual Web Services to form composite services, providing a higher level of functionality for applications that are looking to consume them.

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Sun Microsystems plans to further bolster its software business by adding the MySQL open source database to its arsenal. In a deal that goes a long way to endorse open sources software, Sun is paying $1 billion ($800 million of it in cash) to acquire the Swedish/American company founded in 1995. For investors like Benchmark Capital, Intel Capital and Red Hat, the acquisition means a big return on investment (MySQL had raised a total of $39 million) and avoids the uncertainty of an IPO exit.

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DataSynapse has released Fabricserver 2.5, a virtualization platform enabling dynamic allocation of computing resources to create “real-time” infrastructures. Fabricserver allows business application workloads to be optimized by allocating computing resources based on business demand, business calendar, service level agreements or transactional priority. Included is Datasynapse Studio, a developer tool that automates and standardizes the testing, deployment and packaging of enterprise applications.

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BEA Systems did not get the $21/share that it wanted, but the $19.375 that it accepted today from Oracle was at least a couple more bucks than was originally offered by Larry Eliison’s juggernaut back in October of last year, and valued the company at $8.5 billion. Facing a potential downturn in the market, BEA probably got as good a price as it was going to. Oracle CEO Ellison noted that the “combination with BEA gets us where we need to be [in the middleware market],” adding that there is a big overlap in the two companies’ customer bases.

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FinTech Infrastructure - or FTI - covers how IT infrastructure is being deployed within the enterprises of global financial markets participants. Ahead of its full launch in Q3, this beta site will be updated frequently with news and other content.

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