EMC offers email archiving for smaller businesses
EMC offers email archiving for smaller businesses
EMC has quietly made an acquisition of Allocity to complement its recent take-over of Dantz as part of its overall strategy to offer more accessible email storage services to smaller businesses.
Allocity is a software start-up that provides back-up, restore and provisioning for Microsoft Exchange systems. It's main software package, Live!Ex is the first software platform that is self-managing, self-protecting and engineered specifically to manage storage for Exchange.
It delivers backup and restore integrated with ESM, storage capacity planning tools and fully automated provisioning,
Jordan Reizes, the marketing director for EMC in Australia and New Zealand, said that smaller businesses should be find comfort in EMC's current charge into the SMB and SME space.
"This acquisition is one of 16 since 2000 and is part of our current focus on smaller businesses. Allocity's technology will be incorporated with our future products to allow users of Microsoft Exchange to manage the storage of their emails much more securely, in the same way that we do for Enterprises with our Legatto software.
"Many people see EMC as just an enterprise player, but hopefully this acquisition, along with Dantz, will allow people to see that we are broadening our scope now to new customers. We want to prove that we can be relevant to those companies. Over the last 12/18 months, smaller companies have seen their storage demands grow out of control and we are aiming to tackle that problem for them head on. This is a very exciting time for EMC and them."
Allocity is an EMC partner and makes a version of Live!Ex that integrates with ClARiiON CX hardware platforms and EMC software.
EMC recently bought Dantz Development Corporation so that it can offer backup and recovery software and services to small and midsize businesses in need of data protection solutions.
Dantz provides the Retrospect products, which offers backup and recovery for file servers, desktops, notebooks and business-critical applications.
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