HP acquires data software firm Stratavia

Even as it is locked ina bidding war with rival PC maker Dell for data storage firm 3Par, , Hewlett-Packard Co (HP) today acquired Stratavia, a privately-held database and application automation company for an undisclosed sum in order to strengthen its software and solutions forfolio.

Denver, Colorado-based Stratavia was founded in 2001 as ExtraQuest by Venkat Devraj and Rainier Luistro. Stratavia is a software company specialising in enterprise Database and Data Center Automation, and private cloud computing.

Stratavia, which is backed by Vista Ventures, Asset Management Company and Adams Street Partners holds two patents - one in the area of database automation and the other in generic data centre automation.

Stratavia provides application stack automation for physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. Stratavia automates the full operational lifecycle of enterprise database and application server technology including planning, provisioning, patching, recurring maintenance, incident response, and common change requests from a self-service console.

Fortune 1000 companies rely on the Data Palette Automation Platform and pluggable Data Palette Apps to automate their database and application operations across both internal clouds and physical infrastructure.

Stratavia and HP have earlier partnered to build private clouds that are application and database enabled to provide full-lifecycle automation of the network, server, storage, application and database tiers of the private cloud.