NetApp Inc. said “uncle” yesterday after EMC Corp. outbid it for a second time in its quest to acquire Data Domain Inc. But some industry observers believe EMC, in its zeal to acquire the ...

After weeks of tug of war, NetApp must concede defeat as EMC strikes a $2.1 billion deal to buy Data Domain. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He ...

The first deadline is the approach of the July 2 Data Domain shareholder meeting. While the acquisition is not expected to be an official topic during the meeting, expectations are that it will be ...

EMC has officially acquired majority ownership of storage vendor Data Domain after a bidding war with NetApp. After an initial stock purchase offering period ended Friday, EMC acquired 78.2 percent of ...

EMC swooped in Monday with a US$1.8 billion, or US$30 a share, offer for Data Domain. The rub: rival NetApp already had a plan to buy the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company for US$1.5 billion, or US$25 ...

HOLMDEL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Index Engines, a leader in enterprise discovery, will demonstrate at EMC World in booth #1222 next week a new purpose-designed platform to index the content of EMC ® ...

Now that EMC has purchased deduplication technology leader Data Domain, its reseller agreements with the likes of FalconStor Software Inc. and Quantum Corp. for the same type of deduplication ...

In the battle for Data Domain, EMC increases its bid to $33.50 per share in cash and says its offer is "clearly superior" to NetApp's bid. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer ...

The move (and the subsequent statements by EMC and NetApp Monday in which they reiterated the benefits of their bids) emphasizes the importance the two rivals place on acquiring Data Domain, the ...

Unless the EMC-NetApp-Data Domain changes in the past five days, here’s what happened in NetApp’s efforts to acquire the deduplication vendor. The pot got sweeter last week as NetApp upped the ante ...

EMC Corp. has increased its bid for California-based Data Domain Inc. by more than 11 percent to $33.50 per share. The Hopkinton data storage giant’s offer for the company now stands at $2.1 billion.

EMC on Monday increased its offer to acquire storage vendor Data Domain from $1.8 billion to $2.1 billion in its latest effort to shove aside original bidder NetApp. The all-cash offer is “clearly ...