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Gartner names data Robotics the title of Cool Vendor in storage for its small-business robot, Drobo

In the latest of a long line of data and storage-related buys, IBM said Friday it has acquired Diligent Technologies for an undisclosed sum.Diligent, which has offices in Framingham, Mass., and Tel Aviv, is known for its de-duplication technology, a technique for saving storage space by eliminating redundant data, such as multiple copies of the same e-mail attachment within an e-mail archive. The company's ProtecTIER product employs an in-line de-duplication engine that does the work as data is brought into a system, not after the fact, which saves time, according to Diligent's Web site.Diligent's technologies and its workers will be brought under IBM's system storage business unit within the systems and technology group.One observer questioned whether the Diligent deal could hurt players such as Hitachi data Systems, given that it has been reselling ProtecTIER."Now that the IBM acquisition of Diligent Technology appears to be all but a done deal, where does that leave HDS and the