IBM has been on a spending spree this year, snatching up companies that offer a wide array of technologies.
Who: Storwize, makes real-time data compression software
Amount: $140 million
Why: SearchStorage.com quotes Doug Balog, IBM vice president of storage, as saying:
We bought a compression company, got a great team and a great technology, and we also got a great name to symbolize efficient storage … So we're repurposing the name of the company to be our new midrange storage brand.