IBM: Acquisition on Storage Land
April 20, 2008 by admin_denz · Leave a Comment
IBM announced the acquisition of Diligent Technologies, this being the third buy Big Blue make in the storage fields. Through this move, IBM plans on adding data de-duplication technology developed by Diligent Technologies to its own storage portfolio. In the last few months IBM has made two more grabs in the area, including Softek, NovusCG, and Arsenal Digital Solutions. The company also purchased the Israeli-based XIV in January and announced earlier this month its intention of acquiring FilesX, a provider of continuous data protection software.
According to IBM, Diligent’s technology will become an important part of IBM’s New Enterprise Data Center model. Data de-duplication technology offerings are tailored to give a hand to organizations in improving efficiencies and reducing costs of data-center storage. Furthermore, IBM believes that the complexity of data-center management is at unprecedented levels at this time.
IBM announced that, Together with Diligent’s technology, the company will have the ability of offering solutions to help reducing the amount of physical storage space firms need. This way there will be important reductions in costs and energy consumption, and the time needed to back up and recover information will be significantly reduces as well.
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