EMC hires former IBM veteran as CTO
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EMC last week said it has hired former IBM veteran Jeffrey M. Nick as chief technology officer for the storage vendor. Nick, who left IBM in June following 24 years with the company
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(InfoWorld) - Network storage vendor EMC on Monday introduced a new data storage management product that is the fruit of three software acquisitions the company has made in recent years. EMC will launch its Infoscape intelligent information management software at an EMC user conference this week in Anaheim, California. Infoscape is designed to organize the thousands of unstructured computer files in an enterprise computer system, such as Word documents, PowerPoint Presentations, or spreadsheets. The software organizes files by their content, their importance or whether there are regulations requiring they be saved, said Rob Emsley, senior director of software product marketing, for EMC. Building such an organizational structure makes it easier to retrieve documents when they are needed. "This technology can provide a lot more information about the files in your infrastructure," said Emsley. The company also Monday launched EMC Information Management Strategy Service, a consulting service to help enterprises design, build and run an information management system. The new offerings were developed with technology EMC acquired from the acquisition of three document management software companies:Â Legato SystemsÂ andÂ Documentum, both in 2003, andÂ Smarts, in early 2005. The acquisitions are part of EMC's strategy to diversify from being primarily a storage hardware vendor. Software sales accounted for 37 percent of EMC's revenue in 2005, up from just 17 percent four or five years ago, Emsley said. With Infoscape, EMC is "taking a small but very important step," said Arun Taneja an analyst with Taneja Group. It's important because a major storage vendor is offering what he calls "information classification management software," but small because Infoscape initially can only run in an EMC Celerra storage environment. Although Infoscape is initially "closely integrated" with the Celerra DART (data access in real time) operating system, it will also work within EMC's Clariion and Symmetrix server families in the second half of 2007, said EMC spokesman Todd Cadley. Infoscape, he explained, manages the information not the storage, operating at the file system level. Therefore, it will work in heterogenous storage environments. Other major hardware makers such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard are evaluating similar solutions to the file management problem facing enterprises, said Taneja, and there are a handful of startups also developing solutions. It's possible that some of the larger companies could follow EMC's strategy and acquire some of the smaller software developers to create their own file management software products. The base Infoscape software module is $125,000 and capacity licensing starts at $9,000 per terabyte, EMC said.
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(InfoWorld) - There was a time when EMC was considered a rather staid tech company in a boring, if profitable market: storage. No longer. With regulations bearing down on enterprises, EMC is now a major player in areas such as security and content management. That change was evident last week, as EMC wrapped up its massive, $2.1 billion acquisition of RSA and announced that it was buying yet another security company: Network Intelligence, for $175 million. Network Intelligence produces enVision, a data management product that aggregates information such as log files, applications, hosts, and network devices. The company and its products will be added to EMCâs new security division, which will be located at RSAâs campus in Bedford, Mass. RSAâs identity management, access management, and data encryption products will be the heart of EMCâs âinformation-centric security strategy,â CEO Joe Tucci said in a statement. Network Intelligenceâs wares will allow EMC to offer customers compliance and security policy management tools as part of that strategy. EMC also showed some progress in integrating past acquisitions. Infoscape, unveiled on Monday, is a data storage management product that ties together technology from EMCâs purchase of Documentum and Legato in 2003, as well as Smarts in 2005. The product works with EMCâs Celerra storage environment and DART OS and allows customers to organize unstructured documents such as spreadsheets, presentations, and word processing files.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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EMC joined an end-of-year software acquisition spree Tuesday when it agreed to acquire network management software maker Smarts Inc.
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A week after the mega-deal between security and management software merger between Symantec Corp. and Veritas Software Corp., EMC Corp.
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Circuit City CIO Bill McCorey explained his decision to outsource the company's data center operations to IBM in a keynote speech at the ERIeXchange conference in Boston.
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Over the past year, EMC Corp. has added a little more than 400 employees to its Massachusetts workforce. The Hopkinton-based data-storage company expects to add still more in the coming year.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- EMC Corp. moved Tuesday to beef up its network-management software offerings via the acquisition of Smarts Inc.
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Paul Horn, who has led IBM's research division for 11 years, is retiring and being replaced by John E. Kelly III, who has overseen the company's strategies on technical standards and intellectual property.
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Internet service provider Earthlink Inc. on Monday named the former leader of a voice and data services company known for his willingness to cut loose unprofitable projects as its new chief executive.
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McAfee's board of directors on Monday named former EMC executive Dave DeWalt as the security software company's CEO and president.
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Follows our advice EMC will set its VMware subsidiary somewhat free via an IPO (initial public offering).â¦
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Confirming Macworld UK&#39;s report earlier this week, EMC has acquired Retrospect backup software publisher, Dantz Development Corp.
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IBM IBM.N on Friday will take  aim at the heart of data storage equipment leader EMC Corp.'s  EMC.N market with a product that will allow EMC buyers to  switch to IBM.
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It's rich, it's sophisticated EMC is buying a document management software firm for $85m.â¦
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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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(InfoWorld) - EMC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Valyd Software, a Hyderabad, India, vendor of software for securing enterprise data. EMC did not disclose the sum it will pay for Valyd, a privately held company. Valyd's software will be brought into RSA, the security division of EMC that was set up last year to integrate products from itsÂ acquisition of RSA SecurityÂ andÂ Network Intelligence. The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter, the Hopkinton, Massachusetts, vendor of storage management and security software said Tuesday. Valyd's technology for encrypting and securing data at the database and file system level will lead to the introduction of two new products from the RSA division, after the acquisition is complete, said Manoj Chugh, president of EMC India, on Wednesday. RSA Database Security Manager will address security of data on a variety of database management systems, while RSA File Security Manager will secure data security at the file and folder level, Chugh said. A focus of the RSA division is on products that manage and secure enterprise-wide information assets regardless of where they resides on the network, Chugh said. Valyd's technology, which runs on a large variety of operating systems and database systems, fitted well into the strategy of the RSA division, he added. Valyd Software was set up in 1998 to develop software to secure enterprise data. The company has over 50 staff in Hyderabad, which will be increased to 100 by the end of this year, Chugh said. The Hyderabad operation will focus on the development and enhancement of the new security products, he added. Indian product companies have emerged as acquisition targets for multinational companies. Oracle Corp., for example, has acquired a majority stake in Indian financial software company, i-flex Solutions Ltd. "India was until now perceived as a low-cost location for outsourcing work, rather than as a place where you could find top quality innovation and intellectual property," Chugh said.