Hewlett-Packard is growing its scalable storage capabilities through the acquisition of storage software maker Ibrix.
The deal was announced July 17. Financial terms were not disclosed.
HP officials said the acquisition will bolster the company’s ability
to offer scalable storage solutions to enterprises with large-scale,
data-intensive application environments, where the task of storing huge
amounts of user-generated data often can slow things down.
Adding the nine-year-old Ibrix to its storage mix will help HP
address those concerns, according to Jeff Hausman, vice president of
unified storage in HP’s StorageWorks Division.
“Customers need highly scalable storage solutions that efficiently
and cost-effectively manage massive amounts of information,” Hausman
said in a statement.
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The Ibrix purchase will expand HP’s storage capabilities in
scale-out and high-performance computing environments, as well as in
cloud computing and fixed content archiving.
That area of the storage business is growing at 20 percent a year,
which is faster than the NAS (network-attached storage) and total
external storage markets, according to HP.
Ibrix’s Fusion storage software can scale to tens of petabytes, and
the management capabilities within the solution enables IT
administrators to dynamically add capacity as needed.
HP already offers Ibrix’s software on its StorageWorks SANs (storage
area networks), as well as on its ProLiant servers, BladeSystem blade
servers and ProCurve Ethernet networking switches and management
software.
HP expects to close the deal within 30 days. Ibrix currently has 53 employees and more than 175 enterprise customers.
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