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EMC to buy Prisa storage software for $20mn

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HOPKINTON: The announcement to buy San Diego-based Prisa software is EMC's eighth software acquisition in three years. Prisa develops programs to manage low-end storage networks based on Microsoft's Windows operating system, an area that EMC says is becoming increasingly important.



Prisa already sells the software to personal computer maker Dell Computer Corp, which resells EMC's low-end machines. EMC said it would rebrand the software and expand the market for it.



EMC, the biggest maker by revenue of high-end storage connected in networks, says that smaller companies are turning to network storage but need easy-to-use products.



"Without the management tools it is definitely a task they do not want to do," Erez Ofer, executive vice president at EMC, said in an interview. "The sweet spot (in the market) is definitely going to spread lower."



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