14 DAY TRIAL // Hitachi is the largest acquisition Western Digital has ever made, for the past two decades anyhow, but the company isn't stopping there. In fact, it has acquired another storage company that will be integrated into HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies).
Virident is the name of the company that WD has brought into the fold. It is joining sTec as a new part of HGST.
Western Digital seems to be transferring solid-state drive operations to HGST, little by little. At least as far as industrial and enterprise applications go.
For those unaware, Virident is an expert in virtualization, database, cloud computing, and webscale application server-side flash storage.
It has means of maximizing application performance though better efficiency in the use of tightly coupled server, storage and network resources of data center infrastructures.
Ever SSD brings along an improvement in process speed, because it allows data to be read and written very, very fast compared to HDDs.
HGST, and now Virident, will allow such devices to work better together and, thus, scale the benefits to match the size of data centers. Cloud services, Big Data analytics, and high-volume transaction processing will work better than ever this way.
Virident CEO Mike Gustafson will become a senior vice president of HGST, as head of the Virident team. He has over 20 years of experience in networking, storage, server and other IT industries. HGST President Mike Cordano will be his immediate superior.
"We welcome the talented Virident team to HGST and look forward to working together to solve customer challenges and drive the evolution of datacenter storage," said Mike Cordano, president of HGST.
"Virident has advanced PCIe flash hardware and software solutions that accelerate application performance and virtualization of memory and storage resources. Our datacenter customers will be able to share SSD storage capacity across applications and servers, for greater efficiency, agility, and scale."