IBM buys Arsenal...
Print...Digital, another storage vendor
Posted in Enterprise, 7th December 2007 11:59 GMT
Free whitepaper – Managing desktop software for fun and profit
IBM has bought Arsenal Digital to show that, like EMC and the other big information warehousing players, it totally gets online storage and protection of data.
The price tag for the 10-year-old North Carolina-based outfit is being kept secret. Its 100 employees will become part of IBM's global technology services division.
Arsenal Digital pitches that its service offers a combination of online backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
Its 3,400ish customers are mostly small and mid-size businesses who don't want the hassle of running their own redundant data operation. It's a market that's predicted to grow rapidly over the next few years, and vendors are jockeying for position in earnest.
In September, EMC bought Mozy, which does pretty much the same thing as Arsenal Digital. Seagate bought EVault in December 2006, and Symantec is gearing up to launch its own online backup product. ®
The Cloud threat Landscape
Analyst Keynote: The Register Agile Data Center Summit
Enhancing retail operations with unified communications
Seven ways to optimize VMware server virtualization
Sign up, sign up for The Register IT security newsletter
Microsoft's Windows 7 price gamble - and why it's flawed
Managing Desktop Software for fun and profit
Intel's flash new SSDs hit by bugs