History 2005: EMC Gets Smarts

EMC continued its investment strategy for software management by acquiring System Management ARTS or SMARTS for no less than $260  million in cash. 

For the White Plains, NY company, founded in 1993 and with $60 million in sales in 2004, the flagship product is InCharge, which automatically identifies problems on the network, their impacts and what needs to be done to fix them. EMC is volunteering to apply this technology  to its storage networks.

SMARTS will be integrated into the EMC software group. Its founder and CEO Dr. Shaula Alexander-Yemini will join the EMC office of the CTO after managing  the transition. 

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 205 on January 2005 from the former paper version of Computer Data  Storage Newsletter.