Along with the announcement of EMC's new Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution, EMC is also announcing today the acquisition of three cloud technology companies: Cloudscaling, Maginatics, and Spanning. These acquisitions will further extend EMC's reach and capabilities in cloud technology as each company acquire brings its own expertise.
Along with the announcement of EMC's new Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution, EMC is also announcing today the acquisition of three cloud technology companies: Cloudscaling, Maginatics, and Spanning. These acquisitions will further extend EMC's reach and capabilities in cloud technology as each company acquire brings its own expertise.
The acquisition brings three distinct strengths to EMC's cloud capabilities: the ability to offer customers OpenStack-powered hybrid cloud solutions, cloud choice with data mobility across multiple clouds, and new protection capabilities for “born in the cloud” applications and data.
The key technologies gained from each company include:
- Cloudscaling – a leading provider of OpenStack-powered Infrastructure as a Service, Cloudscaling also provided an operating system that managed compute, storage, and network in the cloud, Open Cloud System. The acquisition of Cloudscaling not only accelerates EMC's OpenStack-powered Infrastructure offerings, it also gives customers more options for running their private and hybrid clouds
- Maginatics – a cloud technology provider offering a highly consistent global namespace accessible from any device or location, unlocking enterprise hybrid cloud choice and flexibility through interfaces into a variety of private and public clouds. The acquisition of Maginatics, EMC expects to integrate the newly acquire technology with existing data protection software, storage and services. This integration will extends EMC’s cloud data protection strategy by enabling unified data protection and management across disparate private, public and hybrid clouds and facilitate efficient data mobility across multiple clouds with data deduplication, WAN optimization, handling of large objects and multi-threading.
- Spanning – a leading provider of subscription-based backup and recovery for “born-in-the-cloud” applications and data, prevent business interruption due to data loss in Google Apps, Salesforce.com, and soon Microsoft Office 365. The acquisition of Spanning helps users confidently deploy data protection solutions across all applications and workloads, regardless of where the data is created or where the applications reside through a combination of Spanning's services and EMC's data protection portfolio.
Along with acquiring the companies, EMC is hiring each company's CEO and their team to join EMC's Emerging Technologies Division and EMC’s newly formed Core Technologies Division.
Cloudscaling's site | Maginatics' site | Spanning's site
