I find this news interesting in light of Dell's February acquisition of backup and recovery startup Appassure software which competes directly with Quest Software's NetVault Backup. Seems a bit schizophrenic.
Appassure was 50-100 million, Quest is 2.4 billion. They paid for a little bit more than just NetVault. Just a thought...
Or maybe they're kicking themselves that they missed out on buying BakBone last year for ~50 million and are now paying the extra 2.35 billion to make sure they get NetVault too?