Symantec said the purchase would allow it to build a complete storage lifecycle management architecture. For the last year, 300-strong PowerQuest has been pushing its approach to automate storage lifecycle management based around a set of tools for deploying, protecting and visualizing data in a Windows-based environment.
The technology at its heart is based on soft drive images, a method widely used in the PC industry to manage the configuration of systems at the factory. It is also the concept behind Partition Magic, the PC utility software for which PowerQuest is best known.
Programs developed by Orem, Utah-based PowerQuest are used to restore files after a hardware malfunction or virus infection. They also allow system administrators to make exact duplicates of a PC configuration across large networks.
Symantec plans to combine PowerQuest’s deployment, storage management, and disaster-recovery toolsets with its own Ghost PC deployment recovery, cloning, and migration software used to mirror PC drives, applications and data. It aims to create a new enterprise date recovery line called Active State Management.
This is the second acquisition of the year for California-based Symantec, which bought Nexland Inc [XLND.OB] in July in a $19.6 million cash deal for a company whose technology underpins its combined firewall/virtual private network appliance.
This article was based on material originally published by ComputerWire.
