Storage maker EMC plans to acquire Documentum, which makes content management software, in a deal initially valued at $1.7 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.
There's a significant shift in storage fundamentals afoot, and it's not SAN and NAS--metadata promises to turn static, monolithic data repositories into malleable storage clouds.
Oracle is expected to jump into the emerging market for content management software later this year.
Microsoft plans to muscle into two markets next year, work flow and enterprise content management, using its time-tested techniques of exploiting its desktop dominance and appealing to developers.
Digital asset management (DAM) software, a sibling of document management, content management, and search engines, is taking on challenges from NASA to Comedy Central.
There's a significant shift in storage fundamentals afoot, and it's not SAN and NAS--metadata promises to turn static, monolithic data repositories into malleable storage clouds.
EMC's planned acquisition of Documentum represents an infrastructure-level strategy that could be the beginning of a much larger trend, with potential impact on how enterprises seek to address content, archiving, and storage as a completely synergistic, single-vendor solution.
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Oracle is expected to jump into the emerging market for content management software later this year.
Digital asset management (DAM) software, a sibling of document management, content management, and search engines, is taking on challenges from NASA to Comedy Central.
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