IT, Security, deals

EMC and Microsoft Expand Partnership

Ryan McBride 12/4/08

EMC (NYSE: EMC), the Hopkinton, MA-based IT storage company, announced a new partnership between Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and EMC security division RSA to improve data security for the companies’ customers across networks and data centers. The partnership will combine RSA’s and Redmond, WA-based Microsoft’s resources and technologies to, among other things, integrate RSA data-protection software with Windows Server 2008. Financial terms of the deal were not given.

Ryan McBride is Xconomy's correspondent. You can reach him at rmcbride@xconomy.com.