Tuesday, 22 January 2013

WD wolfs down Arkeia, gets bellyful of SMB storage

Backup + disk offering = trouble for vendor rivals


Disk drive manufacturer Western Digital, which has angling for a while to muscle into the SMB market, is buying privately owned backup software company Arkeia Software for its backup software and appliances. The myriad other suppliers in the fractured SMB data protection market now face having to compete with a giant. The obvious possibility for WD, of course, would be to link and combine NAS and data protection.…






via The Register - Cloud

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/22/wd_buys_arkeia/

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