Network Appliance acquires rival Spinnaker
Network Appliance acquires rival Spinnaker
Enterprise storage technology provider Network Appliance has snapped up rival server and software maker Spinnaker Networks for approximately US$300 million in stock.
Spinnaker iproduces scalable system architectures, distributed file systems, next-generation clustering technologies, and virtualisation, but it is though that Network Appliance most covets the company's OS software.
NetApp said the acquisition would also accelerate the delivery of its "Storage Grid" architecture.
Equally applicable to SAN (storage area network) and NAS (network-attached storage) environments, Storage Grids complement the grid computing paradigm promoted by other technology companies. Storage Grids offer scalability of capacity, performance, availability, quality of service, and/or connection protocols on demand; a unified view and management of all corporate data and optimised performance for remote data access in distributed enterprises.
Dan Warmenhoven, CEO of Network Appliance, said, "Today's business demands fast, reliable, secure access to data and robust new approaches for information lifecycle management. The combination of NetApp unified storage and software solutions with advanced distributed systems architectures from Spinnaker further accelerates the shift to networked storage and speeds our ability to deliver powerful new Storage Grids as the foundation for data infrastructures of the future. Data-intensive enterprises benefit from higher performance, more flexibility and scalability, increased infrastructure reliability, and much tighter integration with database and layered applications."
Ron Bianchini, president, CEO, and co-founder of Spinnaker, continued, "The combination of Network Appliance and Spinnaker enables us to more quickly deliver what our customers are asking for-flexible data infrastructure that offers high performance, massive and simple scalability, and tremendous data availability and security."
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