EMC Enters Storage Networks Market By Acquiring Smarts Inc
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&quot;The acquisition is about market expansion, innovative technology and growth,&quot; Joe Tucci, chief executive of Hopkinton, Massachusetts-based EMC, said in a statement as EMC snapped up network systems management company Smarts Inc, for $260 million.
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(InfoWorld) - EMC and Symantec missed out on a boom in storage software sales in the second quarter, according to research by IDC. While the worldwide market for storage software grew 8.6 percent from a year earlier, to $2.5 billion, revenue from storage software dropped 3.2 percent at EMC and slipped 1.8 percent at Symantec. EMC remained the market leader, with storage software sales of $654 million and a 26.4 percent share of the market, but its share fell from 29.6 percent in the second quarter of 2005. EMC'sÂ share has been slidingÂ since 2004, according to previous IDC figures. Symantec, in second place, saw sales drop to $468 million and its share of the market slide to 18.9 percent from 20.9 percent a year earlier, according to IDC. SymantecÂ acquired storage software specialist Veritas SoftwareÂ in July 2005: IDC compared Symantec's latest storage software revenue with combined figures for the two companies before the merger. Storage software sales at IBM grew 34.9 percent year on year to $311 million, taking its share of the market to 12.5 percent, from 10.1 percent a year earlier. Network Appliance, in fourth place, grew even faster: its revenue from storage software jumped 57.5 percent to $222 million, giving it 9 percent of the market, up from 6.2 percent. This allowed it to overtake Hewlett-Packard, where storage software revenue slipped 2.7 percent and market share dropped to 5.7 percent from 6.3 percent a year earlier, IDC said. This is the 11th consecutive quarter of growth in storage software sales, IDC said. It attributed much of the growth to demand for storage replication systems, where sales grew 13.2 percent year on year, as companies make good on their disaster recovery and business continuity planning. Demand from archive and hierarchical storage management software (HSM) grew 32 percent, but from a much smaller base. IDC breaks the storage software market down into eight categories: as data protection and recovery; archive and hierarchical storage management (HSM); storage replication; storage management; storage device management; storage infrastructure; file system, and other storage software. (IDC is owned by International Data Group Inc., which also owns IDG News Service.)
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EMC (Quote, Chart) is expanding its network-attached storage (NAS) offerings with two new midrange options and a high-end product.
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The new storage virtualization software is designed with expanded support to virtualize and manage the complete line of currently available EMC disk storage systems.
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EMC has unveiled long-awaited storage virtualization technology that the company said will allow users to manage its arrays -- and high-end boxes from major competitors -- through a single interface.
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EMC Corp. is acquiring SMARTS for approximately $260 million in cash. SMARTS is a fast-growing, privately held provider of event automation and real-time network systems management software.
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(InfoWorld) - Enterprises are reaching deeper into their pockets to add data storage capacity to their computer networks, according to an industry report released Friday. Worldwide revenue for external disk storage systems rose to $4.3 billion in the third quarter of 2006, a 9.9 percent increase compared to the same period last year, according to the research firm IDC. This is the 14th consecutive quarter of storage revenue growth, a trend IDC attributes to more companies buying storage because of the demand to save more data, and to existing customers buying larger capacity systems. "There is definitely a bump in the quarter on the systems side," said Brad Nisbet, manager of IDC's Storage Systems Program. Sales growth has been particularly strong for midrange-priced systems while flat for high-end systems, Nisbet said. While the cost per megabyte of storage has continued to decline, the average selling price of systems has continued to rise because enterprises are buying larger and larger capacity storage. The market share rankings of the top storage vendors were unchanged in the latest report. EMCÂ kept the No. 1 spot with a 21.4 percent share on an 18 percent increase in revenue over the year-ago quarter to $927 million. Hewlett-Packard ranked second with a 17.6 percent share on only a modest 1.8 percent revenue increase to $760 million. Third place went to IBM, with a 13.7 percent share. Dell, which sells co-branded Dell/EMC storage, ranked fourth with an 8 percent share, and Hitachi Data SystemsÂ was in fifth place with a 7.9 percent share. The entire disk storage systems market grew 7.9 percent to $6.186 billion. In the overall market, the top five vendors, in order of share, were HP, IBM, EMC, Dell, and Hitachi. Also of note, the market for storage area network (SAN) technology grew 17.3 percent. The SAN market excludes sales of network-attached storage (NAS), in which servers are liked to just one storage appliance. SAN refers to a larger network of multiple storage devices that are grouped together as a single resource. In particular, storage networks linked together with iSCSI (for Internet Small Computer System Interface) connections showed dramatic growth of 108.4 percent over the third quarter of 2005. IDC attributes that growth to the ease of use and low total cost of ownership of iSCSI-based networks compared Fibre Channel-connected storage. The IDC report excludes sales of tape storage technology.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Storage company EMC has agreed to buy Document Sciences, a developer of software for personalizing mailshots and other communications. The acquisition will allow EMC to extend its offering in the field of transactional content management, which it sees as the fastest-growing part of the enterprise content management market. It plans to incorporate Document Sciences into its content management and archiving division.Using xPression, Document Sciences&#39; flagship application, companies can automate the creation and delivery of personalized communications such as brochures and contracts. The data can be drawn from CRM (customer relationship management), ECM (enterprise content management) and ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems, it said.Automating the processes can save companies money or speed deals along, Document Sciences said. It has more than 500 customers using its software, it said.Document Sciences and EMC have been partners since 2004, when Document Sciences signed an agreement to integrate its xPression software with EMC&#39;s Documentum platform.Acquiring Document Sciences will allow EMC to further its goal of delivering systems for handling business problems end to end, it said.The xPression software could be useful for companies building transaction-intensive consumer financial applications such as new account enrollment, wealth management, brokerage and claims processing.The acquisition, for $85 million in cash, already has the approval of the companies&#39; boards of directors. Subject to customary closing conditions, including the approval of regulators and Document Sciences&#39; shareholders, the companies expect to close the deal by the end of March.EMC went on a buying spree in 2003, buying Legato and&#160;Documentum&#160;and has added around 20 companies since then, including security and encryption company&#160;RSA Security, virtualization specialist&#160;Rainfinity, and other companies such as Acartus,&#160;Captiva,&#160;and&#160;Internosis.
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EMC Corp. EMC.N  on Tuesday said it  has agreed to acquire Smarts Inc., a privately held maker of  event automation and real-time network systems management  software, for about $260 million in cash.
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InfoWorld - Hewlett-Packard Co. is acquiring a storage software company that the company says will give it important leverage in the enterprise-class network-attached storage (NAS) market.
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Beware IBM, HP, Dell and Sun EMC's grand stretch across the data center continued this week with the purchase of Voyence - a maker of network configuration software.â¦
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Hewlett-Packard Co. is acquiring a storage software company that the company says will give it important leverage in the enterprise-class network-attached storage (NAS) market.
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In its pursuit of one-stop storage shop superstardom, Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) has bought Storability Software Inc. and got hold of its enterprise storage resource manager product.
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Data storage firm EMC Corp. said Tuesday it agreed to purchase Smarts Inc., a privately held maker of event automation and network systems management software, for about $260 million in cash.
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Storage company EMC has agreed to buy Document Sciences, a developer of software for personalizing mailshots and other communications.
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It's pretty clear which one is wearing the trousers EMC and Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) have expanded and extended their 10 year old strategic alliance. The two will work together on advanced data centre architectures, while FSC will also provide services for the EMC midrange storage that it sells in Europe.â¦
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With its latest storage vendor acquisition, IBM obtains Nextra, a hardware storage area network system.