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	July 17, 2006 Surprise! EMC Is A Systems Management Vendor Why EMC Bought VMware, Smarts, And nLayers — And Now RSA Security by Galen Schreck with Laura Koetzle, Jean-Pierre Garbani

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Executive Summary

EMC has been quietly broadening its storage- and information-centric software portfolio with acquisitions that give it further reach into the application stack. EMC has laid out its vision of an infrastructure built on virtualized hardware resources that will run the next generation of service-oriented applications. Forrester believes that EMC will offer a systems management stack that caters to the needs of customers with simpler, virtualized infrastructures. To date, EMC has promoted the storage and information management aspects of the acquired companies' technologies and has assembled most of the core components that it needs to begin competing with more entrenched systems management vendors like BMC, HP, and IBM.

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