VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Western Digital Corp.(NASDAQ:WDC)  has announced that it has completed acquisition of  Virident Systems Inc . The acquisition furthers HGST's strategy to address the rapidly changing needs of enterprise customers by delivering intelligent storage solutions that maximize application performance by leveraging the tightly coupled server, storage and network resources of today's converged data center infrastructures. The  Virident acquisition follows HGST's recent purchase of sTec , an early innovator in enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs) and VeloBit, an advanced I/O optimization software company. These investments expand HGST’s presence in the rapidly-growing and strategic enterprise SSD space, which IDC predicts will grow from $2.5 billion in revenue in 2012 to $7.2 billion in revenue by 20171. "We welcome the talented Virident team to HGST and look forward to working together to solve customer challenges ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Western Digital Corporation (WDC) has completed the acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies  (also known as Hitachi GST) from Hitachi Ltd. in March 2012. The acquired business of Hitachi GST, has been rebranded as HGST, a Western Digital company. Under the common ownership of WDC, HGST and WD are operating as separate subsidiaries with separate distinct brands and products, to meet the conditions of antitrust regulators.... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company) has introduced the world's first 4TB enterprise-class hard drive family, the Ultrastar 7K4000.Ushering in a new generation of 512e Advanced Format drives, the Ultrastar 7K4000 family provides space-efficient, high-performance, low-power storage for traditional enterprises as well as for the explosive big data and cloud/Internet markets where storage density, watt-per-gigabyte and cost-per-GB are critical parameters. Gary Watson, CTO, Nexsan said, "Our cost-effective, high-density, and scalable enterprise-class storage solutions are designed for a broad range of market applications including cloud, digital video storage, and backup, and HGST's high-capacity 7,200 RPM enterprise-class hard drives play a crucial role in our value proposition. We all know that the need for more storage is expanding in multiple directions and dimensions, and Hitachi...