EMC to acquire Configuresoft

BANGALORE, INDIA: EMC Corp has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Configuresoft. The transaction is expected to close in June, subject to customary closing conditions and is not expected to have a material impact to revenue or EPS for the full 2009 fiscal year.

The announcement builds upon OEM relationship with Configuresoft. EMC entered this OEM agreement in mid-2008 and the resulting products of EMC Server Configuration Manager and EMC Configuration Analytics Manager are currently helping customers quickly adopt virtualization.

“Customers are looking for new tools and processes to help them more effectively manage the virtualized data center. With the addition of Configuresoft solutions to our broad family of IT management software, EMC now offers the strongest and most complete combination of server, storage, and network configuration automation tools on the market today,” said Chris Gahagan, Sr VP—Resource Management Software, EMC.

Configuresoft’s Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM) and Configuration Intelligent Analytics (CIA)—which will continue to be known as EMC Server Configuration Manager and Configuration Analytics Manager based upon the OEM agreement—help companies achieve and maintain continuous operational, regulatory, and security compliance across their data centers.

“At Configuresoft, we’re committed to empowering customers with information-based proactive management, enabling them to make the right choice the first time and avoid surprises and costly re-work. Becoming part of EMC is the right move at the right time—giving us the financial and technology resources of a proven leader in information management to take our market leading solutions to the next level,” said Alex Goldstein, CEO, Configuresoft.

Upon completion of the acquisition, Configuresoft will become a part of EMC’s Resource Management Software Group.