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Storability Mops Up ProvisionSoft: Page 3 of 3

"This gives us strength in areas where we have been weak,” Zaheer says. “It positions us very nicely moving forward... We’ve already beaten those players in a number of accounts.”

Zaheer says Storability plans to first rebrand the software, and then integrate it with its existing Global Storage Manager (GSM) product by the end of the year. A single implementation of the integrated product will probably be priced between $60,000 and $75,000, he says, while Storability will charge incrementally for the number of agents a customer wants to deploy.

Storability's deal for the remains of ProvisionSoft continues the steady consolidation in the SRM space. For example, earlier this month EMC gobbled up BMC Software Inc.’s (NYSE: BMC) discarded storage software unit, and prior to that EMC bought SRM startup Astrum Software (see EMC Chews & Swallows BMC Unit and EMC Sucks Up Astrum).

— Eugénie Larson, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch