EMC ‘Stitching’ Its Stack With Kazeon
EMC, once a boring old storage company, has visions of Microsoft scalps dancing in its head. Its ambitions have been obvious ever since it acquired Documentum to compete with Microsoft’s SharePoint, but the acquisition of Kazeon announced yesterday could be the yarn that finally holds it all together. EMC is vying with Microsoft for the hearts and budgets of corporate customers looking for cost-effective ways of managing information — a Gargantuan task, given the amount of data companies accumulate every year — and their costly arrays of storage, archiving and search tools. Oddly, a little-noticed change to the Federal Code of Civil Procedure in December 2006, requiring companies to produce electronic documents (including instant messages, blog posts, email and other…
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