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EMC acquires its long-term partner Bus-Tech
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 11 November 2010, 13:29 IST
Bangalore: Storage vendor EMC has acquired Bus-Tech, a privately held company that provides virtual tape library technologies. The details of the Bus-Tech purchase are not disclosed.
The Bedford-based firm, Bus-Tech with 45 employees allows storage systems to store and acquire backup data that's on tape. It sells appliances that mimic tape libraries for backing up mainframe systems to disk arrays.
EMC said that the plan is to take Bus-Tech and put it in its backup recovery systems division. The company stated that the end goal is to migrate mainframe users from tape infrastructure to virtual tape and data deduplication technologies.
Bus-Tech and EMC have been partners since 2004. EMC has been reselling Bus-Tech's Mainframe Data Library VTL since 2008 as the EMC Disk Library for mainframe (DLm). Bus-Tech also has been delivering EMC's data deduplication for the Disk Library archive product for mainframes.
Al Brandt, President of Bus-Tech, said, "This acquisition begins a new and very exciting chapter for Bus-Tech and its employees. EMC's Backup Recovery Systems division has sustained a market trajectory to which we will soon be contributing. Bus-Tech's solutions span the full range of mainframe customer types, so the potential associated with this combination is significant. We are looking forward to a very productive future as members of the EMC family."
Frank Slootman, President of EMC's Backup Recovery Systems division, said, "Mainframe users are not immune to the challenges with tape when it comes to backup and recovery. In a few short years, the application of data deduplication and disk-based storage has literally transformed the backup market. The addition of Bus-Tech will enable us to deliver a suite of next-generation mainframe backup products that are highly differentiated in terms of performance, integration and supportability."