EMC Expands Cloud Management Ambitions

November 1, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from TalkinCloud.  Author: Michael Vizard.

In one fell swoop this week EMC transformed into a force to be reckoned with in the cloud management space with the launch of new hybrid cloud services and the acquisition of three separate companies.

The EMC acquisition list included The Cloudscaling Group, a provider of a cloud operating system that spans public and private clouds; Maginatics, a provider of global namespace services; and Spanning Cloud Apps, a provider of a backup and recovery service designed specifically for software-as-a-service applications…

The Cloudscaling Group will become part of the EMC Emerging Technologies Division, while both Magniatics and Spanning Cloud Apps will be part of the EMC Core Technologies Division. But true to EMC form, Spanning Cloud Apps CEO Jeff Erramouspe said EMC will continue to let Spanning Cloud Apps operate under its existing brand; however, it’s also likely that in time EMC will bundle the company’s services with other data protection offerings…

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