Moshe Yanai and connection makes this intriguing
Byte and Switch says IBM is looking at acquiring Diligent, which includes what was EMC’s Israeli lab. The interesting connection is Moshe Yanai, who engineered the recent purchase of Israeli-based XIV a few months ago.
An added incentive for IBM is that they have been relatively quiet about deduplication, which is Diligent’s forte.
Update: Storagezilla adds some color on Diligent, EMC and IBM.
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IBM may have pulled the trigger on Diligent « Storage Effect // April 18, 2008 at 7:40 am |
[...] Diligent for $200M. The deal’s been talked about in the blogosphere, including here, for a few weeks [...]
Interview with ESG analyst Mark Peters « Storage Effect // May 8, 2008 at 6:01 am |
[...] mainstays to make unusually bold moves (witness EMC’s SSD and Mozy forays and IBM’s Diligent and XIV [...]