EMC to acquire Archer Technologies
ConvergenceAsia staff
05/01/2010

Information infrastructure solutions company EMC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kansas-based Archer Technologies – a privately-held, fast-growing provider of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software. Archer will remain in Overland Park, Kansas upon completion of the acquisition and operate as a part of RSA, The Security Division of EMC.

Archer’s technology, coupled with RSA’s solutions for data loss prevention (DLP) and security information and event management (SIEM), will provide customers with a broader set of IT-GRC solutions, ranging from policy orchestration and powerful security controls through real-time security event management and remediation.

Said Art Coviello, President, RSA, The Security Division of EMC, “The Archer solution not only offers the visibility into risk and compliance that customers need, it brings stronger policy management capabilities to the RSA portfolio. The end result is customers are able to better manage their security programs and prove compliance across both physical and virtual infrastructures, and effectively communicate to the business.”

Archer’s technology will also benefit from complementary solutions such as EMC Ionix, helping customers automate IT configuration change and compliance across server, network, and storage environments – both physical and virtual.

“With Archer, we can also make information security a more integrated element of overall IT-GRC efforts,” added Coviello. “We can help customers unify their visibility and processes across security, business continuity, configuration management and a range of broader IT compliance tasks.”

EMC’s acquisition of Archer is expected to close in Q1 2010, subject to customary closing conditions.

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