| Acquired by | IBM |
| Date | 5/08 |
| Website | diligent.com |
| Category | Security |
| Phone | 508-663-1300 |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Description | Enterprise Data Protection |
| TOTAL | $10.5M |
| FUNDING TOTAL | $10.5M |
| Series D, 8/07 Gemini Israel Funds Accel Partners Matrix Partners Eastward Capital Partners | $10.5M |
Diligent Technologies Corporation provides disk-based data protection solutions for mainframe and open systems environments. The company offers ProtecTIER data protection platform, which offers availability and recoverability of data by providing business and financial improvements for data center operations; and Virtual Tape Facility (VTF) Open, which emulates tape libraries, enabling existing backup applications to use disk rather than tape as their backup target. It also provides VTF Mainframe software, which transparently and automatically directs tape data to disk in z/OS environments. In addition, the company offers project design and architecture, and custom application integration services, as well as system implementation, validation, and tuning services. It serves financial services, communications, government, and data-dependent industries.
The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts with a research and development facility in Tel Aviv, Israel. As of April 17, 2008, Diligent Technologies Corporation operates as a subsidiary of International Business Machines Corp.
