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July 2, 2012  8:13 AM

Dell wins bidding war for Quest Software



Posted by: Dave Raffo
CommVault, dell, quest vranger, Storage

Dell said this morning that Quest Software has accepted its $2.4 billion acquisition, winning its weeks-long battle with Insight Venture Partners to grab Quest. Dell first entered the bidding at $2.15 billion before Insight countered at $2.27 billion. Dell made another offer last week of $2.32...

November 28, 2011  4:39 PM

NetApp’s backup plan examined again



Posted by: Dave Raffo
CommVault, data deduplication, data domain, netapp, Quantum

NetApp’s failed attempt to buy Data Domain in 2009 brought a lot of speculation that the storage systems vendor would shift its attention to another backup vendor. NetApp executives played down the speculation. They said they didn’t need a backup platform, but they wanted Data Domain because...


February 2, 2011  3:58 PM

CommVault CEO: Industry has shifted to snap-based backups



Posted by: Dave Raffo
CommVault, data backup; replication; snapshots; data deduplication

CommVault CEO Bob Hammer pointed to his company’s strong sales results last quarter as a validation of Simpana 9 released in October and a change in the way organizations approach backup...


October 19, 2010  7:10 PM

CommVault looks to go beyond backup with Simpana 9



Posted by: Dave Raffo
CommVault, data deduplicaiton, e-Discovery, Simpana 9

While Simpana 9 gained attention mostly for its source data deduplication and array-based snapshot...


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