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Note: Addition to Dell's growing storage business enables backup and recovery for both virtualized and physical servers.
Dell's acquisition of application backup and recovery company AppAssure will provide "a new paradigm" for those two services in an increasingly virtualized IT environment, a Dell executive said Monday. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the Feb. 24 buy is the latest in a long line of acquisitions Dell has made in the past five years to build its own storage business, after previously buying storage hardware from EMC and putting a Dell label on it.
"The backup and recovery architecture that worked for physical servers is not ideal for virtualized servers," said Praveen Asthana, VP of enterprise solutions and strategies at Dell,...