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EMC Buys RSA Security for $2.1B

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lots-of-encrypted-money dept.

jam244 writes to mention the news of RSA's purchase by EMC. The deal is expected to go through in late third or early fourth quarter of 2006. Once folded into the company, RSA will act as the company's information security division. From the article: "Stice said the proposed price for RSA was 'somewhat expensive,' but added that the deal has the potential to improve EMC's business mix, broaden its product portfolio and further penetrate the consumer security storage market."

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  1. Same guys that bought VMWARE by dilute · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Watch for EMC to become a dominant player in the IT market, going way beyond disk drives and data storage. These folks are making some very strategic acquisitions.

  2. Novell Directory Service [eDirectory] by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 3, Insightful


    Same guys that bought VMWARE

    Novell, with somewhere between 100 million & 200 million installed seats of Novell Directory Services ["eDirectory"], has got to be the world's leading vendor of RSA-based identification, authorization, and encryption products.

    So if Novell ever goes belly-up, then it seems like EMC might be very interested in the bankruptcy sale.

    Oh, and did I mention that Novell has this software product called "Novell Storage Services"?

  3. Encrypted SAN traffic? Tasty! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Interesting.. Could the day be far off when EMC offers a SAN solution that does front-to-back encryption? Encrypted on the platter, stays encrypted through your SAN, and gets decrypted at the multipath layer?

    That way, they could argue that they not only keep your storage secure physically, but logically as well. For shops that have geographically-spanned SANs, this could be a helluva selling point.