HP acquires "Ibrix" to extend scale-out storage capabilities to global customers

Companies HP and "Ibrix" announced they had reached final agreement on HP's takeover of Ibrix, the leading vendor of file servers intended for large companies. The value of the transaction was not disclosed.

"Ibrix" file serving software ensures data protection, high-availability features and data management services for extreme scale-out, cloud and high-performance computing deployments.

Customers with large-scale, data-intensive application environments find that storage performance often becomes a bottleneck for their workflows. IBRIX’s solutions allow enterprises to easily and cost-effectively store massive amounts of user-generated data.

With scalability to tens of petabytes, customers can gain control of exploding data growth and address application performance challenges in the most demanding environments. The advanced data management capability of IBRIX’s Fusion software suite also allows customers to seamlessly add capacity as their data or performance needs grow.

"Ibrix" is a private company founded in 2000, with the headquarters in Billerica, (Massachusets, USA), and HP has been its partner for three year. It has 53 employees and claims more than 175 enterprise customers in the communications, media, entertainment, Internet, oil and gas, health care, life sciences, and financial services industries.

"Ibrix" software is available with "HP StorageWorks storage-area networks" systens, HP ProLiant servers, HP BladeSystem, and HP ProCurve Ethernet switches and management software.

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