History: All Acquisitions of EMC in Storage

EMC, now a Dell company, was historically the most prolific buyer of storage companies with 79 acquisitions, mainly in software. The most expansive one was Isilon for $2.25 billion.

Here there are, classified by date:


Month	Year	Acquired company	Price*	Business of acquired company
4	1994	Array Technology	10	RAID patents and solutions
1	1996	McDATA	230	Directors
6	1998	MCI	30	Professional services in France
9	1998	Conley	NA	Storage management software for Unix and NT
9	1999	Data General	1,100	Open system storage (Clariion line)
1	2000	Softworks	192	Storage software management team
3	2000	Terascape Software	50	Software to improve performance of Oracle
9	2000	Avalon Consulting Group	50	Rich media management software
12	2000	CrosStor Software	300	NAS operating system
1	2001	Shawn Systems	NA
5	2001	FilePool	50	Belgium firm in; CAS software and hardware
10	2001	Luminate Software	50	Monitoring software for storage applications
10	2002	Prisa Networks	20	Storage management software
10	2002	Cereva Networks	10	Virtualization software
10	2002	Sanrise	2.5	Software
5	2003	Astrum Software	NA	SRM software
8	2003	Legato Systems	1,300	Storage software
8	2003	BMC Software (assets)	NA	Patrol storage software
11	2003	Documentum	1,700	Document management software
11	2003	Storigen	NA	Software for EMC’s Centera
1	2004	VMware	625	Virtualization software to run simultaneously different OS
10	2004	Dantz	50	Backup software for SMBs
11	2004	Allocity	10	Storage management software for Microsoft Exchange
1	2005	Smarts	260	Software to identify problems on the network
9	2005	Maranti Networks	5	Virtualization software and switches
9	2005	Rainfinity	90	NAS virtualization
11	2005	Acartus	NA	Enterprise report management software
11	2005	Captiva Software	275	Paper scanning and recognition software
1	2006	Internosis	NA	IT services for Microsoft environments
2	2006	Internosis	NA	Services for Microsoft environment
2	2006	Acxiom (assets)	30	Grid software
3	2006	Authentica	NA	ERM solution
5	2006	Kashya	153	CDP and remote replication software
5	2006	Interlink Group	NA	Microsoft services in Western U.S.
6	2006	nLayers	50	Appliance to monitor applications and resources
7	2006	RSA	2,100	Security identity management and authentification
7	2006	Akimbi Systems	NA	Testing tool for applications running on virtual machines
7	2006	ProActivity Software	30	Content management software for process analysis and monitoring
9	2006	Network Intelligence	175	Security information management software
10	2006	Neartek	NA	Virtual tape libraries
11	2006	Avamar	165	De-duplication software
2	2007	Valyd Software	NA	Security and encryption to protect databases
6	2007	Indigo Stone	NA	Bare metal recovery software
7	2007	Verid	NA	Consumer verification and authentification services (by EMC RSA)
9	2007	Illuminator Software	10	Application recovery software
9	2007	BusinessEdge Solutions	NA	Consulting service
9	2007	Tablus	NA	Data loss prevention solution
10	2007	Voyence	NA	Network configuration and change management solutions
11	2007	Berkeley Data Systems	76	Online backup service (Mozy)
11	2007	Geniant LLC	NA	Information technology services
12	2007	Document Sciences	86	Document output management
2	2008	Pi	NA	Information management software
4	2008	WysDM Software	NA	Backup and reporting software
4	2008	Conchango	84	Consulting firm
5	2008	Iomega	213	NAS, external HDDs
9	2008	YottaYotta (assets)	NA	Multi-protocol storage switch
10	2008	Infra	NA	Information technology service management software developer in Australia
1	2009	SourceLabs	NA	Support and management tools for Linux and open source software
6	2009	Configuresoft	NA	Server configuration, change and compliance management software
7	2009	Data Domain	2,200	De-dupe appliances
10	2009	FastScale Technology	NA	Software to accelerate the transition from a physical to a virtualized center to the private cloud
10	2009	Kazeon Systems	150	eDiscovery software
7	2010	Greenplum	NA	Data warehouse
11	2010	Bus-Tech	NA	VTL for mainframes
11	2010	Isilon	2,250	Scale-out clustered NAS and SAN
10	2011	Zettapoint	10	Database optimization
3	2012	Likewise Software	NA	Cross-platform storage software
5	2012	XtremIO	430	Enterprise SSD-based systems
5	2012	Syncplicity	NA	Cloud-based synch and share file management provider
1	2013	iWave Software	NA	Storage and cloud automation software
6	2013	Scale IO	250	Flash subsystem with software using application hosts’ local disks to realize virtual SAN comparable to external SAN
7	2013	Aveksa	225	Business-driven identity and access management solutions
5	2014	DSSD	NA	Software to optimize flash storage
7	2014	TwinStrata	NA	Cloud storage enablement software for mid-sized companies
10	2014	Cloudscaling Group	NA	OpenStack powered Infrastructure-as-a-Service for private and hybrid cloud
10	2014	Maginatics	NA	Cloud technology provider with global namespace accessible from any device or location
10	2014	Spanning Cloud Apps	NA	Backup and recovery for SaaS applications
4	2015	CloudLink Technologies	NA	Canadian company in end-to-end data encryption for hybrid cloud
5	2015	Virtustream	1,200	Cloud software and services

* in $ million
(Source: StorageNewsletter.com)