History 2004: Broadcom in Disk Array with RAIDCore

$1.6 billion Broadcom, provider of silicon solutions, is raising eyebrows at Quantum, for which Tandberg Data distributes competing SOLT drives in Europe, in an agreement dating back to 1998.

Tandberg Storage, formerly Tandberg Technology, is a Tandberg Data spin-off focused on new tape drive technology.

The parent company retains a 20% stake in Tandberg Technology, which in turn owns 93.5% of OMass enabling broadband communications, bought RAIDCore, a Nashua, NH-based start-up company focused on RAID and virtualization software, for $16.5 million.

The initial products resulting from the acquisition will focus on an integrated RAID-on-chip and RAIDon – motherboard based on SAS and SATA interfaces.

Start-up RAIDCore was founded in 2000 and has raised $5 million in funding.

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 193 on February 2004 from the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter.