Diligent Technologies Acquired By IBM

Published Fri, 2008-04-18 13:12 Acquisitions and Mergers

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has acquired Diligent Technologies, a privately held storage "de-duplication" technology company headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts with research and development located in Tel Aviv, Israel. Diligent's technologies and employees will become part of the IBM System Storage business unit of the IBM Systems and Technology Group. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Diligent develops in-line data de-duplication software that is integrated with server and storage infrastructures to help organizations significantly reduce the amount and cost of physical storage required in data centers. Enterprise and mid-sized organizations are faced with data centers that are reaching a breaking point of complexity and manageability, while at the same time experiencing explosive demands for storage for new data, transactions, email and back-up files.

Data de-duplication is an emerging technology that organizations are investing in today and Diligent's technology provides a single solution to support data protection, archive and data-retention applications -- all while maintaining the integrity of the data.

The Diligent acquisition will be an important part of IBM's New Enterprise Data Center model, which helps clients improve IT efficiency and facilitates the rapid deployment of new IT services for future business growth. The new model is based on best practices for virtualization, green IT, service management and cloud computing.

Combined with IBM, Diligent's data de-duplication technology and solutions will:

* address the unique data de-duplication requirements of enterprise clients for maximum in-line performance, scalability and data integrity;

* complement clients' installed backup/recovery applications (e.g. Tivoli Storage Manager and others);

* reduce the amount of time required to backup and recover information;

* enable the economical electronic transmission of back-up and archive data from primary to remote disaster recovery sites;

* reduce the amount of physical storage required to help reduce costs and energy consumption

Diligent will become part of the IBM System Storage brand of offerings.

This is the third storage related acquisition for IBM in the past few months. In January, IBM formally announced it had acquired Israeli-based XIV to address emerging storage opportunities such as Web 2.0 applications, digital archives and digital media. Earlier this month, IBM announced its intent to acquire FilesX, a leading provider of continuous data protection software for mission-critical applications and remote offices.

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