Acquisition of Amplidata by HGST Completed
Becoming part of Elastic Storage Platforms group, led by Dave Tang
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 18, 2015 at 2:16 pmWestern Digital Corp. announced that HGST, Inc. has completed the acquisition of Amplidata NV, a privately-held developer of object storage software for public and private cloud data centers.
HGST is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Western Digital.
The acquisition supports the company’s strategy to expand into higher value storage platforms and systems that deliver value and scalability to address the growth in storage requirements in cloud data centers.
Amplidata’s Himalaya software is a versatile platform for massively-scalable, secure and flexible storage services and solutions. It allows customers to store and manage exabytes of data and trillions of stored objects, representing an exponential leap in scale that anticipates rapid growth in customers’ appetite for highly durable and available storage.
Prior to the acquisition, HGST had selected Amplidata as a joint development partner for the HGST Active Archive platform, which aims to enable breakthrough levels of storage efficiency at an ultra-low TCO.
Amplidata will now be a part of HGST’s Elastic Storage Platforms group, led by Dave Tang, GM and SVP.
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