EMC broadens software reach

roundup Storage hardware maker EMC welcomes summer with a spurt of software growth, announcing deals to acquire Legato Systems outright and to pick up a product line from BMC Software. Also: Microsoft makes storage gains.

EMC to buy software firm for $1.3 billion
With its offer for Legato Systems, the manufacturer of data storage equipment makes another deal to expand its portfolio of software for managing storage systems.
July 8, 2003

Microsoft gains ground in storage
The software giant says its market share for Windows in network-attached storage devices rose 8 percent in the first quarter to 41 percent.
July 7, 2003

previous coverage
EMC picks up storage software line
The company acquires the rights to a storage management application from BMC Software in another sign of the shifting ground in the storage industry.
July 2, 2003

Sizzling storage? Just wait
perspectives Technology changes are set to alter the current state of the storage industry and prompt the reinvention of IT storage strategies.
July 2, 2003

Windows links to new storage standard
Microsoft releases an update to its Windows operating system to add support for the emerging iSCSI storage networking standard.
June 30, 2003