HP Acquires Data Storage Technology Company

Palo Alto, California-headquartered Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP has announced the acquisition of Billerica, Massachusetts-headquartered IBRIX Inc.

IBRIX is a data storage technology company that has been a HP partner since 2006. The company specializes in developing file-serving softwares. Its flagship product is the IBRIX Fusion, which is an enterprise-class software suite comprising parallel file system with data protection features that can be installed on any server with connection to any storage device. Because of its server agnosticity, customers can switch between server hardware without having to change their entire data storage equipment. The product does not require a central metadata server or distributed lock manager.

Founded in 2000, IBRIX has 53 employees and a 175-strong enterprise customer base. The company’s software is currently deployed on a number of HP’s products such as ProLiant Servers, BladeSystem, ProCurve and StorageWorks.

Once the legal formalities have been completed, the company will be integrated into the StorageWorks division in HP’s Technology Solutions Group. The value of the acquisition is not known.

For HP, the acquisition implies that its offering in storage-related solutions becomes more competitive and also promises tighter integration with its storage products.

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