NetApp to buy Onaro to boost storage management
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Storage vendor Network Appliance said Thursday it plans to buy Onaro, a Boston company that develops storage management software.Onaro&#39;s main product family is&#160;SANScreen. The suite&#39;s components include an engine that models the relationships between components in a distributed system; a repository that monitors the storage services that applications need; and a change repository for tracking device and service changes, according to a company white paper. The point is to help administrators improve performance and resolve problems within their storage area networks.Onaro&#39;s technology is deployed in 32 percent of the Fortune 50 companies, according to a statement. NetApp said Onaro&#39;s products are complementary to its existing offerings, which include its V-Series virtualization systems; ReplicatorX data recovery and replication software; and its Decru DataFort storage encryption appliances.NetApp said the deal will close in the first quarter of this year. Financial terms were not disclosed. Shares of NetApp stock were trading at roughly $25 Thursday morning, a rise of approximately $0.25.
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Investor's Business Daily - The maker of routers and other networking gear is betting that more small businesses and even homeowners want higher-end storage systems once reserved for larger corporations.
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IBM has bought XIV, an Israeli manufacturer of SAN (storage area network) equipment. XIV's main product is Nextra, a storage system based on a grid of standard hardware components.
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(InfoWorld) - Web content delivery company Akamai Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire Netli, which provides services to help accelerate content and services online, the companies announced Monday. In the deal, Akamai would acquire Netli in exchange for about 3.2 million shares of Akamai common stock, or about $170 million depending on Akamai's share price on the closing date. The companies expect the deal, which Netli stockholders must approve, to close by the end of this quarter. The acquisition would improve Akamai's application acceleration offerings and add to the company's goal of being the leading managed service provider for Web application acceleration, Akamai said. The market for application acceleration spending is projected to grow from $967 million in 2004 to $3.3 billion in 2010, according to IT analysis firm Gartner. Akamai and Netli's combined managed services will focus on two important market segments: application delivery controllers and WAN optimization controllers, said Akamai, which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The merged company will combine Netli's high-performance communications protocol with Akamai's global scale and its capabilities to reroute Internet traffic around points of congestion, Akamai said. The company will target large companies offering dynamic applications, such as customer portals, collaboration platforms, e-learning environments, and business-to-business commerce. The two companies "both emphasize leading-edge technology to help businesses deliver more effective, higher-performing online applications," Paul Sagan, president and CEO of Akamai, said in a statement. Netli, based in Mountain View, California, has about 70 employees, and most of them would stay with Akamai, said Jeff Young, an Akamai spokesman. In November, Akamai announced plans to buy Nine Systems, a multimedia management service provider, in a stock and cash deal worth about $160 million.
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Computer maker Dell Inc. said Friday it has agreed to buy The Networked Storage Co., a privately held data-storage consulting firm based in the United Kingdom.
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InfoWorld - Citing need among its customers and the broader market, Netezza announced on Monday that its Netezza Performance Server, a data warehousing appliance for BI (business intelligence) analytics, will soon be scalable to the petabyte level.
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Once limited to Web content and images, content delivery network providers are shifting focus to tackle the on-demand delivery of distributed applications. To that end, Akamai Technologies this week plans to introduce four J2EE-based Web applications that enterprises can deploy quickly without purchasing any hardware or fixed assets. Meanwhile, Speedera Networks next week will launch its FlexComputing service for distributed application hosting and delivery.ADVERTISEMENTSBC Case Study: Crate & BarrelWhat sold them on improving their network? A system that could cut management costs from the get-go. Find out more.
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Device offers remote programming, features a whopping 400GB of storage.
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It's an SD memory card with built-in networking. Sounds cool, but will you spring $100 for it when it's released later this year?
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Company hopes increased storage will boost its format's fortunes.
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Takes de-dupe to primary storage gear Network Appliance is giving its SnapManager software a virtualized twist and introducing automated storage provisioning along with a handful of product and service announcements today.â¦
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IBM has agreed to buy Softek Storage SolutionsÂ for an undisclosed sum. It plans to use Softek's data mobility technology to build more flexible and efficient storage systems for customers of its Global Technology Services division.
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Storage vendor Network Appliance is buying Onaro to boost its storage management offerings.
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Virtualised SAN and NAS bid for your storage grid
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InfoWorld - Network appliance will announce this week additional capabilities and partnerships for its NetApp NetCache line of Internet security appliances. Meanwhile, EMC will unveil a major upgrade to its ILM (information life cycle management) product line with a focus on adding application-aware components.
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Iomega on Friday introduced a new network-attached storage appliance for Windows networks in small and midsized businesses.
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'Infinitely expandable' capacity now on the network Data Robotics' Drobo may have a daft name, but it's a clever take on expandable external storage. And today, it became a NAS box too, courtesy of a clip-on network adaptor.â¦