Data Domain

Former Data Domain CEO Frank Slootman Gets His Old Band Back Together

Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 17, 2011 at 6:40 am PT

The reunited Data Domain gang is tuning up for an IPO with ServiceNow, a fast-growing, cloud-based help-desk play.

Greylock Adds Former Data Domain CEO As A Partner

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 12, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

Frank Slootman, who in 2009 sold Data Domain to EMC for $2.4 billion joins Greylock to “add firepower” to its enterprise team.

NetApp Gives Up; Data Domain to Be Acquired by EMC

John Paczkowski in News on July 8, 2009 at 1:22 pm PT

EMC has long claimed that its bid for Data Domain is clearly superior to NetApp’s, and today NetApp finally agreed. After market close Wednesday afternoon, NetApp said it has terminated its merger agreement with Data Domain, giving the data storage technology vendor leave to accept EMC’s unsolicited takeover bid–at $33.50 a share cash, an 11 percent premium over its own.

EMC Makes Data Domain an Offer It Probably Can't Refuse

John Paczkowski in News on July 6, 2009 at 8:33 am PT

NetApp has cleared all necessary U.S. regulatory hurdles to proceed with its acquisition of Data Domain, though it seems unlikely that the company will prevail now that rival EMC has trumped its bid for the storage vendor.

EMC Makes Data Domain an Offer It Probably Can’t Refuse

John Paczkowski in News on July 6, 2009 at 8:33 am PT

NetApp has cleared all necessary U.S. regulatory hurdles to proceed with its acquisition of Data Domain, though it seems unlikely that the company will prevail now that rival EMC has trumped its bid for the storage vendor.

EMC Extends Deadline for Data Domain Offer

Tiernan Ray, Blogger, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on June 29, 2009 at 4:43 am PT

EMC on Friday extended the period Data Domain has to respond to its $30 all-cash offer to acquire the company. The offer, which was previously set to expire at 12 midnight on Monday, June 29, is now extended to July 10.

Data Domain to EMC: Nix, Null, Nein, Nyet, Non, Nuh-uh, Nope, Nay…

John Paczkowski in News on June 15, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

What part of “No” does EMC not understand? On Monday the company once again said its bid for data storage equipment maker Data Domain is “superior” to a competing offer from NetApp. This, despite the fact that Data Domain earlier in the day issued a statement recommending that shareholders reject EMC’s $30-a-share cash bid.

Dell’s Dedupe Play

Justin Scheck, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 11, 2009 at 4:58 am PT

Until three weeks ago, few people outside corporate data centers knew much about deduplication technology, which makes data storage more efficient by culling repetitive documents. That changed when data storage companies NetApp and EMC got into a bidding war last month for a leading provider of the heretofore obscure software.