Written by:Chris Mellor
Source URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/30/is_that_a_veeam_in_hpes_eye/
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is interested in buying Veeam, sources tell us.
This sounds like speculation because it would be such a good acquisition for HPE – giving it the world’s leading independent backup software company and being, in a software sense, the equivalent of EMC buying Data Domain.
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However, HPE has recently bought SimpliVity for $650m and is buying Nimble Storage for $1.2bn – meaning it’s spending $1.85bn buying two suppliers. Does it have the appetite for a third?
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