Netgear acquires Infrant to boost storage offerings

Hot on the heels of yet another big time acquisition between Philips and DLO comes news that Netgear will be snapping up the privately-held Infrant Technologies for a cool $60 million in cash. All 34 employees will soon be wearing Netgear badges, and Infrant's CEO will move over and become Netgear's Vice President and General Manager for storage products. Essentially, Netgear is hoping that this move will strengthen the firm's presence in the enterprise and small-business storage realm, as it can now offer up a trusted name in RAID-based NAS products for SMB, SOHO, and the home. More specifically, the ReadyNAS, RAIDiator, and X-RAID portfolios were the targets of Netgear's desire, and while details on branding and the timeframe for the merge weren't noted, it sounds like Netgear's ready to get this party started on the double.

[Thanks, Matt]

[Steve @ May 3rd 2007 10:57AM]

Oh that's sort of sad. I own a couple of these boxes and it's too bad that this excellent, geek-centric company is going to be taken over by a crap-house like netgear.

[ChrisM @ May 3rd 2007 2:02PM]

I've got one of their boxes that I was unable to add a drive to. Their tech support was awesome. This is really sad news.

[Darth Tony @ May 3rd 2007 2:34PM]

Sad? The Infrant stuff will most likely get less expensive. Bummer.
What's wrong with Netgear? I've been using their stuff for years and it's always worked perfectly.
So many people always expect the worst.

[Arthur @ May 3rd 2007 3:59PM]

This really really sucks. Infrant boxes are my favorite NAS devices, and they just got taken over by the network company I loathe the most. Infrant has excellent customer support and forums, but I have a feeling Netgear will kill all of that. On the plus side, this will force me to learn how to build a linux server next time I need a new NAS.