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Top Technology Storage Acquisitions that Changed the Industry in 2010

By Ericka Chickowski on 2010-12-21



Just when you thought the storage market couldn't get any more consolidated, 2010 hit. The 3Par struggle between HP and Dell was emblematic of the storage acquisition landscape this year, as large players duked it out over a relatively small field of targets holding key technologies around warehousing, clustered storage and storage virtualization that will help the IT heavyweights build out their cloud strategies. Here’s a look at how the landscape changed.

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Dot Hill buys Cloverleaf

Date: JanuaryPrice Tag: $11.5 millionSpecialty Gained: Storage virtualization

Dell buys Exanet assets

Date: FebruaryPrice Tag: $12 millionSpecialty Gained: Clustered NAS

EMC buys Greenplum

Date: JunePrice Tag: UndisclosedSpecialty Gained: Data warehousing

Dell buys Ocarina

Date: JulyPrice Tag: Undisclosed Specialty Gained: Deduplication hardware and software

IBM buys Netezza

Date: SeptemberPrice Tag: $1.78 billionSpecialty Gained: Data warehouse appliances

HP buys 3Par

Date: SeptemberPrice Tag: $2.35 billionSpecialty Gained: Enterprise storage arrays

EMC buys Isilon

Date: NovemberPrice Tag: $2.25 billionSpecialty Gained: Clustered NAS

EMC buys Bustech

Date: NovemberPrice Tag: UndisclosedSpecialty Gained: Virtual Tape Library

Quest Software buys BakBone Software

Date: NovemberPrice Tag: $55 millionSpecialty Gained: Backup and recovery, plus continuous data protection

Dell buys Compellent

Date: DecemberPrice Tag: $960 millionSpecialty Gained: SMB storage and recovery

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