EMC continued its torrid acquisition pace this year with a $175 million purchase of Network Intelligence, a privately held maker of tools designed to help companies track and analyze security activity on mainframes, desktops and storage devices. The company received three rounds of venture capital financing totaling $25 million from Ascent Venture Partners, Egan-Managed Capital, JMI Equity Fund, Bain Capital Ventures and Castile Ventures.

Another recent EMC acquisitions to bolster its product offering was its deal for Israeli data protection firm Kashya, technology services firm Internosis, scanning software company Captiva Software Corp. Its biggest of the year was the $2.1 billion purchase of RSA Security, which it closed yesterday.

EMC is one of venture capital's best friends. That's why we invited Mark Lewis, EMC's Chief Development Officer, to deliver the keynote address at The Deal's upcoming conference in Silicon Valley about technology mergers and acquisitions. While he won't intentionally tip any specific companies EMC is looking at, I hope he will talk about general themes EMC remains interested in and how it's tying together all of its recent purchases.

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