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 LP (Financial)

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Isilon Systems

Seattle, Washington, United States
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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

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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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