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IBM To Acquire Rembo Technology

Friday, 19 May 2006 by Michel Roth

IBM yesterday announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Rembo Technology, a privately held software company based in Geneva, Switzerland. Financial details were not disclosed. The acquisition is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2006.

Rembo is a leading provider of software that helps organizations automatically install or upgrade operating systems on thousands of servers, laptops and desktop computers simultaneously, which eliminates the need for IT specialists to spend days or weeks installing software manually on each physical or virtualized computer.

With Rembo software, an IT administrator can install operating systems from a centralized "dashboard" in a few minutes -- so online business functions can continue unabated. Rembo's security features can protect workstations used by multiple people in a virtualized environment by automatically "wiping away" operating systems and personal data after each use and re-installing clean software. For example, university students using computer kiosks could inadvertently introduce a computer virus or leave personal information on the hard drive. With Rembo software, every time a student logs off, the infected software and hard drive would be automatically stripped, and the original operating system re-installed.

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