EMC acquires Astrum Software

EMC Corporation recently acquired Astrum Software Corporation, a
privately-held supplier of storage resource management (SRM) software for
multi-platform, mid-tier storage environments. The acquisition includes
approximately 30 employees and Astrum Software’s portfolio of storage
management software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Boston-based Astrum Software is the ninth software acquisition completed by
EMC since the beginning of 2000 and expands on the company’s portfolio of
industry-leading SRM software, which is the fastest-growing segment of the
overall storage management software market. Astrum Software, whose products are
optimized for automated file management, file-level reporting and capacity
utilization in small and medium networked storage environments, will strengthen
EMC’s ability to address a full range of automated networked storage
requirements.

Erez Ofer, EMC’s Executive Vice President, Open Software Operations, said,
"Astrum Software will help us provide our mid-tier customers with a more
comprehensive view of their storage resources and further simplify the
implementation and management of networked storage. The addition of Astrum
Software’s technology and talented storage software team will widen the
options available to customers running storage networks of varying sizes."

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