Quiet no more: EMC makes noise in hybrid cloud space
10/28/2014 22:07
Call it a hat trick or a trifecta, but EMC Corp. made some moves today that may quell chatter that its best days are behind it.
The Hopkinton-based company, which has been in the news because of both suggestions that it should decouple from cloud and virtualization software giant VMWare and an actual split with friend/foe? Cisco, announced three acquisitions today as well as a stronger integration with VMWare.
The newly announced EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud leverages EMC’s traditional data center storage and backup expertise with VMWare’s own cloud-computing knowledge to create a best-of-both-worlds environment where companies can use the ease and accessibility of the cloud and feel a level of security that the world of physical data backup provides.
To further support the venture, EMC announced that it had acquired three cloud-focused businesses, Silicon Valley based Cloudscaling and Maginatics, and Austin cloud protection company Spanning. (The acquisition of Cloudscaling occurred earlier this month but was wrapped into today’s announcement.)
All three companies add more features to EMC’s hybrid cloud offering to make it more attractive to companies looking for all-in-one cloud backup and data storage solutions. The three acquisitions provide EMC with more capabilities to protect, manage, store, and connect to data both on the cloud and on servers.
