Latest M&A: AT&T, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Pax8, Verizon

Verizon and AT&T are both sharpening their focus on telecommunications through divestiture.

Both carriers are getting out of the media game, with Verizon selling the unit it created through its Yahoo and AOL purchases and AT&T saying goodbye to the Time Warner acquisition it fought for so long to secure. But that’s good news for channel partners. Both telcos are going back to the basics by focusing on mobility and broadband. As a result, partners should play a bigger stakeholder role than ever.

Our M&A roundup features a mix of telecom and IT. Cybersecurity firms remain a red hot M&A target, as buyers gobbled up Beyond Security, Cyberinc and Secucloud.

Two particularly big IT names made the news last month: IBM and Dell. Dell announced its second major spin-off in a month, and IBM announced multiple acquisitions.

If you want to see who else engaged in consolidation last month, scroll through the 17 images above.

Did you miss our previous gallery? Check out our April recap.