I am trying to put EMC’s price for Data Domain (DDup) into perspective but am having difficulty. According to InfoWorld article on EMC acquisitions ’03-’06 and some other research this $2.2B$2.4B is more money (not inflation adjusted) than anything in EMC’s previous acquisition history. The only thing that comes close was the RSA acquisition for [...]

I was talking with an EMCer the other day about the Data Domain deal and he said that EMC does very well with acquisitions. Just about every EMC product line other than Symmetrix (and possibly Celerra, Invista, PowerPath and maybe others) came from an acquisition in EMC’s past. The list goes something like this Clariion [...]

It’s unclear to me what EMC would want with Data Domain (DD) other than to lockup deduplication technology across the enterprise. EMC has Avamar for Source dedupe, has DL for target dedupe, has Celerra Dedupe and the only one’s missing are V-Max, Symm & Clariion dedupe. My guess is that EMC sees Data Domain’s market [...]

Data Domain has been a longtime partner of NetApp’s, which is probably one reason that NetApp finally decided to make them an offer. Another reason why it’s right to do this now is that in today’s economy, NetApp could get the best price. The final reason that NetApp and Data Domain should hook up is [...]