HP buys the supplier of high-efficiency systems of storage IBRIX

The company declared achievement of the definitive agreement on company IBRIX acquisition - the supplier for systems of storage of files of a corporate class. Transaction cost is not disclosed.

According to HP, IBRIX, located in the city of Billeerika, the State of Massachusetts, it is based in 2000, and its partner relations with HP develop throughout three last years. In staff of the company 53 employees, among corporate clients (all them more than 175) - service roviders of communication, entertainments and access to the Internet, mass media, petro- and the gas-processing enterprises, the public health services organisations, medical and biologic institutes and financial institutions. The transaction, predictably, will be finished the next 30 days then IBRIX becomes a part of division StorageWorks of group HP Technology Solutions Group, told in message HP.

ON IBRIX it is equipped by functions of high readiness, protection and a data control in computer systems with horizontal scaling which support services of high-efficiency calculations and (calculations through), have noted in HP.

Scalability of systems reaches tens petabaitov, therefore clients receive the control over growth of the data and can cope with problems of productivity of appendices in he most intense conditions, have underlined in HP.

The ample opportunities of a data control put in software package IBRIX Fusion, allow to increase free resources in process of growth of requirements for capacity or productivity of systems of storage. Adding ON IBRIX to own portfolio, HP expects to strengthen the positions in the fast-growing market of horizontally scaled high-efficiency computer systems of storage (including for Cloud Computing) and systems arhivirovanijа a static content.

By estimations HP, the complex annual factor of growth of this market makes 20 % and surpasses corresponding indicators both in the market of network devices of a data storage, and in the market of external systems of storage as a whole. To clients are necessary vysokomasshtabiruemye systems of a data storage which it is effective and it is profitable cope with processing of huge information files, — has declared.

Dzhef Hausman. , the vice-president of division HP Unified Storage, StorageWorks Division. Is an acquisition expands our possibilities on support of the given segment of the market. Besides, vysokomasshtabiruemoe ON IBRIX uses advantages of the standard branch equipment that will allow clients to receive the greatest return from the enclosed means. Now ON IBRIX it is delivered together with data storage networks (SAN) HP StorageWorks, servers HP ProLiant, HP BladeSystem, - switchboards HP ProCurve and the managing director ON.

The combination ON systems of storage IBRIX with a portfolio of business technologies HP gives to clients a full set of products and services - from designing, modernisation and management of corporate data-processing centres to difficult computing environments with horizontal scaling, confirm in HP.