Storage maker EMC plans to acquire Documentum, which makes content management software, in a deal initially valued at $1.7 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.
There's a significant shift in storage fundamentals afoot, and it's not SAN and NAS--metadata promises to turn static, monolithic data repositories into malleable storage clouds.
Oracle has offered to purchase rival BEA Systems for US$17 per share, a total of about US$6.66 billion in cash -- but BEA rejected the offer as too low.
Storage and security vendors used to come from different worlds -- but in the space of 18 months, Symantec merged with Veritas and EMC acquired RSA Security. So how do you feel about trusting the same vendor to store and secure your corporate data?
EMC's planned acquisition of Documentum represents an infrastructure-level strategy that could be the beginning of a much larger trend, with potential impact on how enterprises seek to address content, archiving, and storage as a completely synergistic, single-vendor solution.
There's a significant shift in storage fundamentals afoot, and it's not SAN and NAS--metadata promises to turn static, monolithic data repositories into malleable storage clouds.
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