IBM Deepens Their Data Protection - Twenty-Four Seven Security

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April 10, 2008
IBM Deepens Their Data Protection

It's like watching a game of 3D chess as these big companies head out on their security shopping sprees almost as soon as they identify a security need in the marketplace or weakness in their portfolio. But the results remain on trend, as big companies keep picking specialty security companies so that they can continue to be the one-stop security shop, the one place to go for all your security needs.

In fact, I did a podcast with IBM late last year about their goal of an end-to-end security solution which you can listen to right here.

IBM announced an agreement to buy FilesX, a privately held storage software company based in Newton, Mass., and Haifa, Israel, that specializes in continuous data protection and nearly instant data and application recovery software for enterprises and remote/branch offices. The acquisition is expected to close soon, and the financial terms were not reported. And as if it's any surprise, FilesX will become part of Tivoli Storage Manager product line.

“The FilesX acquisition would complement IBM’s vision of enterprise data protection by adding critical capabilities for remote offices, delivering continuous data protection for applications and servers, and supporting business user needs with nearly instantaneous recovery of data,” said Al Zollar, general manager, Tivoli software, IBM. “It would also reinforce IBM’s mid-market strategy by adding a simple and easy to use full data protection solution – one that also is attractive to enterprise remote offices and departmental situations.”

So the data protection, compliance and governance market remains HOT HOT HOT!

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