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IBM acquires data compression company Storwize
Stephen Withers
Friday, 30 July 2010 08:34
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IBM has agreed to acquire Storwize, a company that provides real time data compression technology.
According to IBM officials, the acquisition provides the company with unique storage technology that can compress multiple types of primary data (including virtualisation images and databases) in real-time while maintaining performance.
This reduces the need for physical storage, saving capital expenditure and reducing the demand for data centre space, power and cooling. Real-time compression allows longer series of data to be analysed from a given amount of storage, and the performance of some types of applications may be improved due to a reduction in the number of physical read/write operations required.
"Real-time data compression helps address a significant client need -- making it affordable to analyse and make sense of massive amounts of data in order to provide new services," said Brian Truskowski, general manager, IBM system storage and networking.
"By adding Storwize to our innovative portfolio of storage solutions, IBM is better equipped than ever to help clients handle growing quantities of data and make more of it available for analytics," he added.
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