Rumor has it that Big Blue plans to acquire the fast-growing ESIM vendor, which had been tracking to an IPO. The deal would come almost exactly a year after Q1’s larger rival, ArcSight, got taken out – a process where IBM was thought to be a bidder.

With the addition of a more robust asset management capability and a new product to make integrating with its data store easier than ever before, Tripwire hopes to prove that it’s not just thinking of its own product portfolio.