Industry News Desk
Dell Buys ExaStore: Globes
The acquisition is supposed to give Dell its first R&D center in Israel
Feb. 8, 2010 07:30 PM
Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer
Dell, which has been promising a little M&A, is buying the gone-bust Israeli-based clustered NAS start-up Exanet according to Israel's Globes news site.
Dell is reportedly only paying $12 million for a company whose four investors kicked in $70 million over the last 10 years.
The acquisition is supposed to give Dell its first R&D center in Israel.
It also has offices in the U.S., the UK, Germany, France and Japan. It remains to seen what Dell does with them and the widgetry.
ExaStore's Clustered NAS is a scalable, high-performance, petabytes-storing solution with a clustered distributed file system. Administrators can expand capacity and performance as needed, when needed, without affecting applications or users.
It supports virtual storage provisioning and consists of two building blocks: an integrated, high-performance EX1500 server pre-installed with the ExaStore clustered distributed storage operating system that can front the company's own DX series 4Gb/s Fibre Channel disk storage or any of a long list of the usual storage systems certified by Exanet.
The company has technical partnership with folks like 3PAR, Red Hat, Intel, EMC, Hitachi and IBM.
About Maureen O'GaraMaureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.
About Newsfeeds / Video Feeds
.gif)
Cloud Computing Journal caught up with the CEO of a major new player in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem - a CEO who has taken an interesting and unusual decision. While signing up as the Platinum Plus Sponsor of the 5th International Cloud Expo, he and his company have decided to rem...
Gartner is now projecting 19.7% growth in worldwide PC shipments this year. That would mean 366.1 million units with tablets accounting for 10.5 million. Gartner expects revenues to increase 12.2% to $245 billion, which is way more than the measly 1.9% increase it was projecting in Dec...
W3C, which hasn’t had a CEO since at least last July, has hired ex-Novell CTO Jeff Jaffe, who was reorg’d out of there at Christmas.
He’s supposed to run the place day-to-day and do battle with its bureaucracy, standards process, political in-fighting and budget on an MIT salary with...
We started 3Tera to radically ease the way IT deploys, maintains and scales – MANAGES - applications. Our AppLogic® cloud computing platform provides the foundation of our partners’ orchestration of cloud services for public and private clouds around the world. Today, we’re taking the ...
Law enforcement is no different in its IT needs and constraints from many other enterprises – they run legacy hardware. Migrating to a new on-premise system and hardware can be cost-prohibitive. This compels decision-makers to look for advice and evidence on how to successfully evolve ...
Do you want a top down, business-driven, automated data center where efficiencies deliver agility and the ability to innovate? Do you want to learn how to deal with challenges such as virtual machine sprawl, additional storage requirements, increased systems management requirements, ne...
