EMC has announced it is to buy software producer, Softworks, for $192m. Softworks specialises in programs that manage the performance and integrity of stored information. EMC said this acquisition will enable it to improve its current storage...
Sterling Software has launched its E3 (end-to-end enterprise) initiative which it claims will drastically reduce the cost of running storage systems on multiple platforms. The company intends to make all its storage management software products...
HP has boosted its storage management software range with the acquisition of software firm StorageApps in a $350m all-stock deal. The deal will add storage virtualisation capabilities to HP's current storage management software line, allowing it to...
Storage giant EMC has unveiled storage software to be run with other vendors' hardware. The dramatic announcement covers a variety of storage management software, which can run on rivals' such as IBM's and Hitachi's storage boxes.
EMC is moving away from its hardware heritage and will attack the growing market for storage software in a move it hopes will leave Compaq, Hitachi and IBM trailing in its wake. EMC unveiled four pieces of storage management software today, which...
The company previously had said it would exit its managed service business, and that it had hired investment banking companies "to identify and assess all available alternatives to maximize shareholder value".