EMC To Acquire Greenplum

EMC Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire California-based Greenplum, Inc.

Greenplum is a privately-held provider of disruptive data warehousing technology. Upon completion of the acquisition, Greenplum will form the foundation of a new data computing product division within EMC’s Information Infrastructure business.

Greenplum utilises a “shared-nothing” massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture that has been designed from the ground up for analytical processing using virtualised x86 infrastructure.

Pat Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products said, “The data warehousing world is about to change. Greenplum’s massively-parallel, scale-out architecture, along with its self-service consumption model, has enabled it to separate itself from the incumbent players and emerge as the leader in this industry shift toward ‘big data’ analytics.

Greenplum’s market-leading technology combined with EMC’s virtualised Private Cloud infrastructure provides customers, today, with a best-of-breed solution for tomorrow’s ‘big-data’ challenges.”

Bill Cook, Greenplum CEO said, “EMC and Greenplum bring extraordinary potential to customers at the intersection of `big data’ and sophisticated analytics. As technology and business partners, EMC and Greenplum witness daily the enthusiasm with which customers embrace how together we impact their businesses in very tangible, positive and meaningful ways. The technology speaks for itself. What energises us most now is EMC’s ability to open new doors of opportunity and accelerate delivery of our joint vision for the future.”

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Upon closing of the agreement, Bill Cook will lead the new data computing product division and report to Pat Gelsinger. EMC will continue to offer Greenplum’s full product portfolio to customers and plans to deliver new EMC Proven reference architectures as well as an integrated hardware and software offering.