14 DAY TRIAL // Hitachi made the news for a variety of things recently, and it looks like it is doing so once more, or it would be more precise to say that one of its subsidiaries has made a fairly bold move, namely enacting the acquisition of BlueArc.
When speaking of Hitachi, one might think about the new 4 TB hard disk drives, or how Western Digital decided to buy it in full.
Now, the same company is getting some more attention, although it is really a subsidiary (Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, HDS) that is the reason. Basically, this company finalized an agreement through which it is set to fully acquire BlueArc Corporation.
BlueArc is a maker of scalable, high-performance network storage and has been in a 5-year OEM partnership with HDT.
“Joining forces with Hitachi Data Systems is a win-win situation for our employees, our partners, our customers and our shareholders,” said Mike Gustafson, CEO, BlueArc.
“The strength of the long-standing partnership between the two companies spanning product integration, customer momentum and cross-functional collaboration is the foundation for this union. We are excited to accelerate our vision and innovation and to bring real solutions to customers, partners and the market.”
HDS aims to transform its traditional data centers into information centers, where all data is easily stored and accessed by customers.
“The exponential growth of digital content, particularly unstructured content, has had a dramatic effect on all businesses, including the requirements on IT,” said Jack Domme, CEO, Hitachi Data Systems.
“Over the past 5 years, BlueArc has been an integral part of our strategy to help customers store and manage unstructured data of all types, such as video, email, medical imaging, scientific data and more. Bringing BlueArc into the Hitachi family will enable us to better serve customers with more tightly integrated technologies, broader capabilities and deeper expertise globally. Our combined efforts will deliver cost-effective infrastructure cloud and content cloud solutions that customers can take advantage of as they look to further transform their data centers.”