Global IT storage major EMC has acquired privately held Syncplicity Inc, a leader in cloud-based file management solutions.
Based in Menlo Park, California, Syncplicity provides cloud-based sync and share capabilities for enterprise customers.
Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The addition of Syncplicity will extend EMC's strategy of enabling the “new user” in the post-PC era: those who want to access, share, collaborate and participate in business processes on their preferred device.
Mr Rick Devenuti, President, Information Intelligence Group, EMC, said: “With Syncplicity, we will deliver best-in-class solutions for true extended enterprise collaboration.”
Products & updates
On Monday, EMC announced the launch of 42 new and updated products, spanning virtualisation, storage, backup and management portfolio, at its annual customer and partner conference ‘EMC World 2012' in Las Vegas.
Talking about the importance of cloud computing and big data, Mr Joe Tucci, Chairman, President and CEO of EMC Corporation, said: “Cloud computing is transforming IT. The way IT deploys infrastructure, builds applications and provides accesses to those applications is dramatically changing, promising both greater efficiency and agility.
At the same time, many businesses now see data volumes grow so large they break traditional infrastructures – this is what we call Big Data.”
“Managing big data represents a huge challenge for IT, but using analytics to provide insight into big data promises to transform business. Cloud computing and big data will only be viable if they are underpinned by a foundation of trust – trust that the infrastructure will be available 24x7 and trust that data will not be compromised by the latest advanced threat,” he added.
A comprehensive line-up of enterprise storage arrays was among products unveiled on Monday. Complementing the new launches is a host of new software capabilities that streamline operations and extend the market-proven storage system to new hosts and applications, while integrating customers' existing storage assets into an integrated and unified pool of storage resources.
EMC also announced its plans for the next generation of network attached storage system, code named “Mavericks.” This will enable enterprises to manage growing unstructured data more effectively, thereby accelerating their businesses. This product will be available for customers later this year.
Suite of enhancements
It also wrapped up a new unified storage enhancement that transforms the midrange storage market; and new Data Domain® and Avamar® systems and software that transform the backup and recovery landscape and work seamlessly with a broad set of enterprise applications; and the combination virtual storage with data protection that delivers the industry's first solution to combine active-active data centres with third site disaster recovery protection.
EMC also introduced a new suite of enhancements to the its Atmos® Cloud platform that transform the way service providers and enterprises manage Big Data in globally-distributed cloud storage environments.
Data is key
Mr Pat Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products, said: “Throughout the evolution of IT, the data itself has remained the ultimate source of value. We build ‘data centres,' not application or server centres; but rigid technology constraints effectively forced data to a lower priority. The onset of virtualisation, cloud computing and big data analytics, however, have restored data to its rightful place as the centre of IT gravity.”
Further when talking about its new products, he added: “Today's EMC announcements address this fundamental shift head on and deliver to customers the next wave of technology required as they transform their IT, their business and themselves.”
Over 15,000 attendees participated in the event.
(The trip was sponsored by EMC)