Seagate Technology to acquire MetaLINCS

Seagate Technology has announced that they are now planning to acquire MetaLINCS, an e-discovery software firm.

Seagate said that MetaLINCS technology would provide them with an analytics engine complementary to its existing offerings for data archiving, recovery and collection.

The two companies have not disclosed the financial aspects of this acquisition deal.

Mark Grace, senior vice president and general manager of Seagate Services Group spoke on this deal: “There are dozens of companies that call themselves e-discovery. But we are particularly impressed with MetaLINCS’ efforts in this area. It’s extremely fresh and current technology. I want to say the best.”

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