* LSI snaps up ONStor for $25 million cash and Oracle acquires disaster recovery and high availability specialist GoldenGate Software.
It’s been another busy week in storage consolidation as LSI snapped up ONStor for $25 million cash and Oracle acquired disaster recovery and high availability specialist GoldenGate Software.
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LSI’s acquisition of ONStor brings network-attached storage into the Engenio product fold. ONStor’s Bobcat and Cougar NAS gateways can be used to front-end a variety of block-level storage arrays, including LSI’s own external RAID storage systems. ONStor’s Pantera iSCSI storage system will complement LSI’s offerings.
Oracle’s acquisition of GoldenGate Software for an undisclosed amount signals the company’s focus on making its Oracle database platform as resilient and highly available as possible. GoldenGate is little known in the storage market but well-known among its high-caliber clients. The company counts among its customers Chase Paymentech, Montefiore Medical Center, Memorial Hermann, Overstock.com, Sabre Holdings and U.S. Bank. GoldenGate provides continuous database availability and complete data recovery. Its GoldenGate Live Standby enables continuous data availability for transactional data by applying primary system data to a standby database in real-time.
Oracle’s senior vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware Product Development Hasan Rizvi said of the acquisition: “With the addition of GoldenGate, Oracle expects to help our customers achieve better performance through improved business intelligence and business continuity with real-time information.”
