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posted on 01 May 2008 13:11

IBM is setting up a Systems and Technology Group lab in Israel for XIV, its recent scale-out storage acquisition.

Just this year IBM has aquired three Israeli companies: XIV (clustered storage nodes); FilesX (continuous data protection for files); and Diligent (data de-duplication).

IBM already has development labs in Rehovot and Jerusalem. The new STG lab, operated from both Tel Aviv and Haifa, will be its third and XIV will operate from it. The director is going to be Alain Azagury who joins the new lab from an IBM center in New York, and will co-ordinate storage development activities in Israel, as well as leading circuit and logic design technologies.

Azagury is returning to Israel; he was previously senior manager of the Storage and Systems Department at IBM's Haifa research lab. His expertise includes distributed and fault tolerant systems, storage systems and copy services, file systems, object storage, iSCSI and memory management.

IBM recently reported solid storage revenue growth.

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}