HP Buys Cloud-Computing Vendor IBrix
Posted by brennels on July 21, 2009
By Antone Gonsalves
InformationWeek
July 20, 2009 08:00 AM
InformationWeek
July 20, 2009 08:00 AM
“HP already uses IBrix’s file-serving software in its storage, servers, switches and management software.
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has agreed to buy IBrix, a maker of file-serving software, to boost HP’s infrastructure offerings to cloud-computing customers. Founded in 2000, IBrix, in Billerica, Mass., has 53 employees and more than 175 corporate customers spanning the communications, media, entertainment, Internet, oil and gas, healthcare, life sciences and financial services industries. HP uses the company’s technology in several products, including StorageWorks storage area networks, ProLiant servers, BladeSystems and ProCurve Ethernet switches and management software.”
