EMC snaps up trio of cloud firms

Storage giant gobbles up Cloudscaling, Maginatics and Spanning

EMC has made a trio of acquisitions which it insists will make it easier for its partners to capitalise on cloud computing.

The storage giant has swallowed up California cloud duo Cloudscaling and Maginatics as well as Texas-based Spanning Cloud Apps.

The former focuses on OpenStack-powered infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) tech for private and hybrid clouds, which EMC claims will help provide its customers with extra cloud choices as well as accelerate its own IaaS offerings. Cloudscaling's chief executive Randy Bias will join EMC's Emerging Technologies Division.

The addition of Maginatics will extend EMC's data protection strategy, it claimed, adding that its mobility and deduplication tech is an extra benefit.

Backup firm Spanning focuses on "born in the cloud" applications and runs across Google Apps, Salesforce.com and Microsoft Office 365, which EMC claims will be useful for its customers. Spanning and Maginatics' respective chief executives Jeff Erramouspe and Amarjit Gil will join EMC's newly formed Core Technologies Division as part of the acquisitions.

EMC Information Infrastrucutre's chief executive David Goulden said the channel will be beneficiaries of the trio of deals.

"EMC customers and partners are better positioned than ever to capitalise on the promise of hybrid clouds and deliver the agility of IT-as-a-service that their businesses require," he said.

"What we have here is a trifecta of customer choice for hybrid cloud environments. Each company offers unique technology for delivering cloud abstraction and flexibility for customers."