• Business

    EMC + Isilon = ?

    November 15, 2010

    EMC is buying Isilon for $2.25 billion. They want the video market, which seems to just be growing and growing. EMC stock dipped a little on the news, which is not surprising because Isilon isn’t worth what EMC is paying for it. What does this mean for the video market? More uncertainty. EMC has been an acquisition marathon runner since 2002, buying up Avamar, Documentum, Epoch, McData, Iomega, Archer, Greenplum, Bus-Tech, Kashya, Dantz, Mozy, Data Domain and even VMware (not to mention a bunch of other companies). So what does this mean for Isilon’s product line moving forward. If you look at how the acquisition of Dantz and Iomega sparked…

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  • Business

    Data Domain

    June 14, 2009

    Data Domain appears to be the next casualty of the swift consolidation of IT vendors. NetApp and EMC continue in what has become a bidding war in the acquisition of Data Domain. NetApp began the bidding at $1.5 Billion and it has slowly eked its way up to $1.9 Billion. What are they buying? Something they both already claim to have a really good solution for, data de-duplication. While this acquisition is not as big of a deal as other recent buyouts it is worth noting. NetApp and EMC are becoming bitter rivals and the technology and research and development that each is looking to acquire via Data Domain would…

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  • Business

    A Saturated Cloud Backup Market

    December 9, 2008

    It’s not that it all started with Amazon, but they were certainly the ones to mainstream cloud-based storage.  Now, there are a variety of services such as Mozy (with CrashPlan) and BackBlaze from some of the smaller, niche  players (both of them support the Mac) to Apple (can you say Mobile Me), Microsoft, Amazon (who now supports Windows Server and SQL Server), Google, Symantec, EMC and others for some of the more major players. According to James Staten of Forrester research, the cloud computing bubble will burst in 2010, if not before.  At that point, we’re likely to start seeing far more feature rich applications start getting released and one…

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