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Slide #26. Western Digital — Virident
Acquirer:
Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC)
Acquiree:
Virident
Details:
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Virident Systems, Inc., a leading provider of server-side flash storage for virtualization, database, cloud computing, and webscale applications. Virident will be integrated into HGST, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital. 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 datacenter infrastructures.
Western Digital is a developer, manufacturer, and provider of data storage devices and solutions. Co.'s portfolio are: Cloud, which provides an array of enterprise hard disk drives (HDD) and enterprise solid state drives (SSD), and platforms; Client, which provides an array of flash and hard drive solutions across personal computer, mobile, gaming consoles, automotive, virtual reality headsets, at-home entertainment, and industrial spaces; and Consumer, which provides a portfolio of HDD and SSD embedded into external storage products and removable Flash, which include cards, universal serial bus flash drives and wireless drives, through its retail and channel routes to market.
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