Hewlett-Packard

2009-07-20

AMSTELVEEN, 20 juli 2009 - HP en IBRIX hebben een definitieve overeenkomst getekend voor de overname van IBRIX door HP. IBRIX is een leidende provider van enterprise-class file serving software, inclusief data protection, hoge beschikbaarheid en data management services voor de uitrol van extreme scale-out, cloud en high-performance computing.

Met de toevoeging van de IBRIX software aan het HP portfolio versterkt HP haar leiderschap in de opkomende markt van scale-out en high-performance computing storage, cloud storage en fixed content archivering. Deze markt kent een jaarlijkse groei van 20 procent(1). Dat is een hogere groei dan in network-attached storage en totale externe storagemarkt. (2)

Klanten met uitgebreide, data-intensieve applicatieomgevingen merken dat storage performance vaak een bottleneck in hun workflow wordt. De oplossingen van IBRIX zorgen ervoor dat grote bedrijven eenvoudig en kostenefficiënt enorme hoeveelheden user-generated data kunnen opslaan.

Door de schaalbaarheid naar tientallen petabytes krijgen klanten controle over explosieve datagroei. Ook kunnen zij hiermee inspelen op performanceproblemen in de meest veeleisende omgevingen. Met de geavanceerde datamanagementsystemen van IBRIX's Fusion software suite is het mogelijk om zonder problemen capaciteit toe te voegen.

De waarde van de overeenkomst is niet bekend gemaakt.

Vervolg van het persbericht is in het Engels

Founded in 2000, and an HP partner for three years, IBRIX is privately held and headquartered in Billerica, Mass. It has 53 employees and more than 175 enterprise customers spanning the communications, media, entertainment, Internet, oil and gas, healthcare, life sciences, and financial services markets.

"Customers need highly scalable storage solutions that efficiently and cost-effectively manage massive amounts of information," said Jeff Hausman, vice president of Unified Storage, StorageWorks Division, HP. "This acquisition expands our portfolio to better support the needs of this market segment. In addition, IBRIX's highly scalable software leverages industry-standard hardware allowing customers to fully maximize their existing investments."

IBRIX's software is currently available with HP StorageWorks storage area networks (SANs), HP ProLiant servers, HP BladeSystem, and HP ProCurve Non-HP site Ethernet switches and management software. The combination of IBRIX's storage software with HP's business technology portfolio offers customers a full suite of products and services from design, transformation and management of corporate data centers to the most extreme scale-out environments.

"Joining forces with HP is a natural fit for our customers, resulting in an enhanced storage solution that scales to meet their data growth," said Milan Shetti, chief executive officer, IBRIX. "The unique combination of IBRIX's file serving solutions with HP's portfolio of products and services enables customers to lower the cost of scale-out architectures while easing the process of storing, accessing and moving critical data."

The transaction is subject to certain closing conditions and is expected to be completed within the next 30 days. Following completion, the business will be integrated into the StorageWorks division in HP's Technology Solutions Group.

More information about HP StorageWorks is available at www.hp.com/go/storage.

About IBRIX

IBRIX® develops, markets and sells scale-out NAS products and solutions that help global enterprises to gain unprecedented control of unstructured data growth and application performance challenges. IBRIX's purpose-built scale-out NAS platform, IBRIX Fusion(TM), dramatically scales performance, capacity and manageability to deliver significant storage cost savings, application performance improvement, non-disruptive growth and infinite scalability. For more information, visit http://www.ibrix.com Non-HP site .

About HP

HP, the world's largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com/.

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(1) Based on internal HP estimates of compound annual growth rate.

(2) Compared to percentages in the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Forecast, June 2009.