Storage specialist EMC announced plans Monday to acquire VMware, a start-up that sells software to make servers more flexible, for about $635 million in cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The move will help EMC reach further into the world of utility computing, a trend sweeping the industry as companies search for ways to make information technology easier to manage and more efficiently used, the Hopkinton, Mass.-based company said. Today, EMC is accelerating the convergence of these two worlds,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The acquisition indicates that EMC, which already has a major presence in large corporations, is trying to expand into the same advanced systems management area targeted by IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and others.<\/p>\n
VMware’s software lets a single server run multiple operating systems simultaneously on different “virtual machines,” a technology well developed in expensive mainframe computers, maturing in Unix servers, and now arriving in lower-priced machines based on Intel processors.<\/p>\n
IBM’s and HP’s comfort working with a neutral start-up may not carry over to EMC, a competitor in the storage domain, Haff said.<\/p>\n
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