Storage giant EMC announced plans Wednesday to acquire Avamar Technologies in a $165 million cash deal, furthering EMC's efforts in the data retrieval and retention arena.
Avamar, a privately held company based in Irvine, Calif., will be integrated into EMC's storage product operations. The 7-year-old company develops software designed to remove redundancies in data before it is backed up to disk.
"The limitations of tape-based backup have inspired the creation of new technology, such as data de-duplication, to significantly alter the cost and efficiency equation for disk-based backup," said Mark Sorenson, EMC senior vice president of information management software, in a statement. "Avamar is acknowledged as the industry's best at helping customers transcend the shortcomings of traditional tape-based methods."
Avamar's technology will back up data once and then identify any redundant pieces of information at the source where it is created. As a result, the technology is designed to only back up that piece of altered information, rather than the entire document, for example.
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