Disk drive manufacturer HGST has agreed to acquire Amplidata, a US-based data storage software developer backed by disk drive manufacturer Western Digital, semiconductor maker Intel and telecommunications service Swisscom.
Financial details of the transaction, which is expected to close in the first quarter of this year, have not been disclosed.
Amplidata has developed a software product dubbed Himlaya that enables the scaling of software-defined storage systems by cloud data centres. It announced a partnership with HGST in September 2014 to…
