Storage vendor EMC has announced the acquisition of Configuresoft, a provider of server configuration, change and compliance management software.
Financial details have not been released and the deal is expected to close in June 2009. EMC said the deal is not expected to have a material impact to revenue or EPS for the full 2009 fiscal year.
EMC hopes that the acquisition will improve its offerings on the management side, covering storage, networks, servers and applications and enable customers to automate visibility and control across physical and virtual data centres.
The two companies already had an OEM partnership that began in 2008 and produced EMC Server Configuration Manager and EMC Configuration Analytics Manager.
According to EMC, these offerings enable customers to achieve and maintain continuous operational, regulatory, and security compliance across their data centres. The products can detect, prioritise and correct configuration compliance issues.
“Customers are looking for new tools and processes to help them more effectively manage the virtualised data centre,” said EMC’s Chris Gahagan, SVP, resource management software. “Server configuration and change management are among the top challenges faced by IT. With Configuresoft, we’re gaining market-leading server configuration management solutions, giving customers the power they need to fully automate the data centre in compliance with new physical and virtual best practice policies.”
“With the addition of Configuresoft solutions to our broad family of IT management software, EMC now offers the strongest and most complete combination of server, storage, and network configuration automation tools on the market today,” Gahagan said.
This is EMC’s first big acquisition since the company purchased storage hardware vendor Iomega for $213m and IT services consultancy Conchango for £42m in April 2008.
Configuresoft was founded in 1999 as Fundamental Software and changed its name in 2001. It is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado and its customers include Alliance & Leicester, Lloyds TSB Bank, the British Transport Police, BT and SNCF.
