M&A Deal Summary

DELL EMC Acquires Isilon Systems

On November 15, 2010, DELL EMC acquired information technology company Isilon Systems for 2.3B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is DELL EMC’s 8th transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is DELL EMC’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is DELL EMC’s 45th transaction in the United States.
  • This is DELL EMC’s 3rd transaction in Washington.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2010-11-15
Target Isilon Systems
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) DELL EMC
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 2.3B USD
Advisor(s) Qatalyst Partners (Financial)

Target

Isilon Systems

Seattle, Washington, United States
Isilon Systems, Inc. is a network attached storage systems company based in Seattle, Washington.

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Buyer

DELL EMC

Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States
Category Company
Founded 1979
Sector Information Technology
Employees63,900
Revenue 24.4B USD (2014)
DESCRIPTION
EMC's corporate headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
EMC's corporate headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

Dell EMC, a part of Dell Technologies, enables organizations to modernize, automate and transform their data center using industry-leading converged infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection technologies. This provides a trusted foundation for businesses to transform IT, through the creation of a hybrid cloud, and transform their business through the creation of cloud-native applications and big data solutions. Dell EMC, formerly EMC Corp., was established in 1979 and is based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 49 of 68
Sector (Information Technology) 8 of 9
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 48 of 67
State (Washington) 3 of 4
Country (United States) 45 of 61
Year (2010) 3 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 25
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-11-10 Bus-Tech

Bedford, Massachusetts, United States

Bus-Tech, Inc. is a privately held provider of VTL (Virtual Tape Library) solutions that utilize open systems disk storage to store and retrieve mainframe tape data.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-04-04 NetWitness

Bedford, Massachusetts, United States

NetWitness is a provider of network threat analysis software to governments, financial institutions and large enterprises worldwide. NetWitness was founded in 1997 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts.

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