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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
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Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »November 08, 2006 — CIO —
Storage vendor Network Appliance (NetApp) is planning to acquire a California firm to add to its portfolio of storage system management software.
NetApp said Wednesday it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Topio for approximately US$160 million in cash.
Topio, already a NetApp Strategic Partner, is a provider of software that helps customers replicate, recover and protect data over any distance regardless of the underlying server or storage infrastructure, NetApp said.
Topio is in Santa Clara, Calif., not far from NetApp’s headquarters in nearby Sunnyvale, and operates an R&D facility in Haifa, Israel.
NetApp says the acquisition of Topio will enable NetApp’s customers to replicate their data on any vendor’s system, including those of its main rivals EMC, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems, to any NetApp storage system.
NetApp expects to complete the acquisition by December, at which point Topio will become a new business unit within NetApp. Topio’s R&D facility in Israel will continue to operate after the deal closes, NetApp said.
-Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
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