EMC and Western Digital make flash software buys

EMC Corp. and Western Digital Corp. strengthened their solid-state storage portfolios this week by acquiring startups with flash software technology to enhance their hardware products.

EMC signed a definitive agreement to acquire storage pooling software provider ScaleIO Inc. following weeks of speculation. The deal is expected to close this month.

Western Digital acquired VeloBit Inc., which sells server-based caching software for block-based primary storage and solid-state drives (SSDs). VeloBit will be integrated into Western Digital's wholly owned subsidiary HGST Inc. (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), which manufactures SSDs and hard disk drives (HDDs).

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Storage Radio: SSD vs. HDD, QLogic and more

This week's edition of Storage Radio focuses on a network-led, server-side flashing product and the solid-state drive versus hard disk drive comparisons many users are making.

Storage Media Group senior news director Dave Raffo and news writer Todd Erickson spoke with associate site editor John Hilliard about solid-state drive (SSD) adoption and hard disk drive (HDD) purchasing decisions, as well as Erickson's story this week on QLogic Corp. and it's server-side-flash cache-sharing technology.

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