In a definitive agreement, HP has acquired IBRIX, a leading provider of enterprise-class file serving software that includes data protection, high-availability features and data management services. IBRIX’s solutions allow enterprises to easily and cost-effectively store massive amounts of user-generated data.
Founded in 2000 and an HP partner for three years, IBRIX was privately held and headquartered in Billerica, Mass. Adding IBRIX’s software to HP’s portfolio further intensifies the company’s leadership in the emerging market of scale-out and high-performance computing storage, cloud storage and fixed content archiving. This market is growing at a compound annual growth rate of 20 per cent per year, which is faster than both the network-attached storage and total external storage markets.
“Customers need highly scalable storage solutions that efficiently and cost-effectively manage massive amounts of information. 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,” said Jim Wagstaff, Vice-President & General Manager, StorageWorks Division, HP Enterprise Business.
IBRIX’s software is currently available with HP StorageWorks storage area networks (SANs), HP ProLiant servers, HP BladeSystem, and HP ProCurve 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.
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