Spanning Cloud Apps

EMC announced in October, 2014 end of transactions on merger of three companies which are engaged in cloud computing: Cloudscaling Group, Inc., Maginatics, Inc and Spanning Cloud Apps, Inc. Each of them has experience and technological capabilities which will help EMC to expand a portfolio of hybrid cloud solutions and also to improve the cloud infrastructure, storage systems and technologies of data protection. Together with the product EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, acquired companies will help with the strategy implementation of EMS directed to providing to customers the choice and high speed of implementation during creation of hybrid cloud environments.

Thanks to acquisition, EMC will be able to expand cloud offers on three main directions: creation of hybrid clouds based on OpenStack, support of different clouds with a possibility of free data migration between them and also to offer new opportunities of protection of the applications and data created in a cloud.

Spanning — the supplier of means of backup and recovery for the applications and data created in a cloud on the basis of a subscription. The solutions Spanning allow to avoid stops of business processes because of data loss in Google Apps, Salesforce.com. This option will be available also in Microsoft Office 365. The combination of means of protecting of data of EMC and Spanning services will provide to EMC unique positions in the market. As a result users can implement surely solutions for data protection, covering all applications and loadings irrespective of where data are created or where applications are placed.