NetApp Completes Acquisition of Bycast

Agreement previously announced on April, 7

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on May 18, 2010 at 3:24 pm

NetApp, Inc. has completed the acquisition of Bycast Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, under terms of the definitive agreement announced on April 7, 2010.

Bycast extends NetApp’s leadership position in unified storage by adding an object-based storage offering to manage petabyte-scale, globally distributed repositories of images, video, and records for enterprises and service providers. Bycast also expands NetApp’s position in key markets such as healthcare, digital media, Web 2.0, and cloud services providers.

Bycast’s former headquarters is now the NetApp Vancouver Technology Center, responsible for existing Bycast products and future product development.

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