Q3 2008 Storage Transactions

Media Recovery buys Storage Reseller

Media Recovery, a provider of data center products and services, has acquired a storage reseller based in Seattle. Media Recovery said it purchased ISSI Data, which provides information and storage infrastructure products. Media Recovery said the buy will give it a strong inside sales operation and an expanded online catalog sales business.

Announcement Date: September 24, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed

Dot Hill to acquire Ciprico assets

Dot Hill Systems Corp., a provider of entry-level and midrange external storage solutions for OEMs and systems integrators, is acquiring RAIDCore and NAS intellectual property assets from Ciprico, Inc. The assets to be acquired include all of Ciprico's rights to its RAIDCore technology and products along with specified rights to Ciprico's NAS intellectual property. RAIDCore is a pure software implementation that takes advantage of today's high performance multi-core based servers rather than the specialized hardware acceleration engines that are used in external RAID systems. This creates an extremely cost-effective, yet robust internal RAID solution that OEMs and systems builders can now deploy on entry-level and higher level servers without significant cost burden. The addition of these assets will position Dot Hill to serve the growing enterprise class software RAID market focused on server and workstation-based deployments of data protection.

Announcement Date: September 23, 2008
Deal Value: $2.25 Million (Cash less a previous $225,000 loan)

Adaptec to acquire Aristos Logic

Adaptec Inc. is acquiring privately held Aristos Logic Corporation, a provider of industry-leading RAID solutions. Aristos Logic will bring Adaptec a strategic customer base that drives new OEM opportunities for Adaptec. Aristos Logic's technologies and customers will also enable Adaptec to expand into high growth adjacent RAID segments, including performance desktops, blade servers, and enterprise-class external storage systems. As Adaptec builds out its I/O strategy -- advancing I/O performance while integrating additional controller-based system functionality beyond RAID -- the assets it will obtain through this acquisition will become even more valuable. Aristos Logic will also provide Adaptec with a strong ASIC roadmap.

Announcement Date: August 27, 2008
Deal Value: $41 Million (Cash)

Microsoft to acquire DATAllegro

Microsoft is acquiring DATAllegro Inc, a provider of breakthrough data warehouse appliances. The acquisition will extend the capabilities of Microsoft's mission-critical data platform, making it easier and more cost effective for customers of all sizes to manage and glean insight from the ever expanding amount of data generated by and for businesses, employees and consumers. Microsoft believes DATAllegro is a tremendously innovative company that has started to redefine the data warehouse market. DATAllegro's data warehouse appliance installations boast some of the largest data volume capacities in the industry -- up to hundreds of terabytes on a single system. In addition to offering large capacities, DATAllegro's patent-pending technology is designed for complex workloads including high concurrency and mixed queries. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 delivers enterprise-class capabilities in business intelligence and data warehousing, and the addition of the DATAllegro team and its technology will take the data platform to the highest scale of data warehousing.

Announcement Date: July 24, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed