EMC Buys Into Resource Management

June 8th, 2006: Continuing its acquisition strategy, EMC confirms the purchase of nLayers, the company that already provides the core for its Smarts infrastructure management software.

On February 27th this year, nLayers' president and founder, Gili Raanan, sent a letter to this staff. In it he said, "I am excited to announce that nLayers has been acquired by EMC Corporation… As the acquisition is now complete, nLayers will be integrated into the EMC Resource Management Software Group, and the nLayers salesforce will be integrated with the EMC Smarts sales team."

Today, EMC confirmed its end of the purchase - although neither party is as yet saying anything about the amount of cash exchanged. The two entities were already working closely, with nLayers providing the underpinning for EMC's resource management software, Smarts.

According to EMC, 'nLayers provides an agentless appliance that automatically identifies, maps and models the relationships and inter-dependencies between applications, servers, and devices in a time-based, behavioral model.

' The technology is based on Application Behavior Modeling (ABM), a patent-pending technology that continuously discovers and monitors application components, resource dependencies, service levels and usage within data centers.'

What this does illustrate however, is EMC's ongoing strategy to extricate itself from the view that it is simply a storage vendor. This, in turn, sets EMC up in a battle of the heavyweights with IBM, Sun, HP and possibly Symantec for the company in control of your Information Lifecycle Management. Expect price slicing as the warriors in question seek your dollars.

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