One about the SourceLabs acquisition speculates that EMC wants to use the company's assets to improve , a consumer-focused division of EMC that offers an online backup tool for the management of personal information.

However, Ogrodnick says the acquisition is targeted at Atmos, not Decho.

One of EMC's goals with Atmos is to automate the management of huge storage volumes across wide distances, and provide auto-healing features to reduce the time administrators spend dealing with little bugs.

SourceLabs is a privately held company founded in 2004 by CEO Byron Sebastian, a former vice president at BEA. The company maintains a repository of 16 million potential bugs in Linux and Java and offers an automated diagnostics tool that identifies the reasons behind system crashes and other problems.