EMC acquires California's FastScale Technology
01 Sep 2009
Information infrastructure provider EMC Corporation has announced its acquisition of privately-held, Santa Clara, California-based FastScale Technology, Inc, a provider of software platforms and solutions for next generation enterprise IT.
The acquisition provides a new dimension to the EMC Ionix portfolio and will help it to dramatically increase performance and scalability of private cloud infrastructures, said a press release from the company.
The transaction is not expected to have a material impact to revenue or EPS for the full 2009 fiscal year.
The acquisition of FastScale extends EMC's powerful EMC Ionix solutions for automating IT management across a unified infrastructure of storage, computer, network and virtualisation resources.
FastScale's technology simplifies application and server management to allow data centres to run up to three times more virtual machines without degrading performance. In addition FastScale's technology decreases memory and disk usage by up to 75 per cent.
EMC had recently entered into an expanded business and technology alliance with VMware, and the two companies had announced a new reseller agreement whereby EMC is now a fully authorised reseller of VMware's vCenter AppSpeed application.
