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Vancouver, Canada-based Bycast's solution offers object-based management capabilities for petabyte-scale geographically dispersed storage infrastructure.
The deal will add object-based storage software to NetApp's portfolio of offerings. This approach to storage and data access is based on object names and rich metadata about the content and, according to NetApp, simplifies storage of large-scale objects and enables quicker search for objects.
With the new offering, NetApp is targeting clients in the digital media, Web 2.0, healthcare and cloud-based service verticals with data centers around the world.
"Bycast extends our unified storage strategy and enhances our solution for shared storage infrastructure by adding new capabilities for global data access and mobility," NetApp's Product Operations EVP Manish Goel said in a statement. "The addition of Bycast's products enables NetApp to offer our enterprise customers and service provider partners a complementary solution that enables them to efficiently build and manage a very large-scale global repository of data central to many IT-as-a-service offerings."
Bycast has been around for about 10 years and has secured about 250 customers for its product to date.
NetApp expects to close the acquisition in May. Other than saying it was an all-cash deal, the buyer did not disclose financial terms of the agreement.
Vancouver, Canada-based Bycast's solution offers object-based management capabilities for petabyte-scale geographically dispersed storage infrastructure.
The deal will add object-based storage software to NetApp's portfolio of offerings. This approach to storage and data access is based on object names and rich metadata about the content and, according to NetApp, simplifies storage of large-scale objects and enables quicker search for objects.
With the new offering, NetApp is targeting clients in the digital media, Web 2.0, healthcare and cloud-based service verticals with data centers around the world.
"Bycast extends our unified storage strategy and enhances our solution for shared storage infrastructure by adding new capabilities for global data access and mobility," NetApp's Product Operations EVP Manish Goel said in a statement. "The addition of Bycast's products enables NetApp to offer our enterprise customers and service provider partners a complementary solution that enables them to efficiently build and manage a very large-scale global repository of data central to many IT-as-a-service offerings."
Bycast has been around for about 10 years and has secured about 250 customers for its product to date.
NetApp expects to close the acquisition in May. Other than saying it was an all-cash deal, the buyer did not disclose financial terms of the agreement.