Western Digital Corp. acquired a Massachusetts startup that specializes in optimization software for solid-state drives. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.
VeloBit Inc.’s technology and employees will be integrated under Western Digital’s Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Ltd. unit, which it acquired last year for $4.3 billion.
The buy builds on Irvine-based Western Digital’s recent acquisition of STEC Inc., which is part of a strategy to gain market share in the growing data center storage market through a growing suite of SSD-related products.
Western Digital last month announced it’s buying Santa Ana-based STEC for $340 million.
Solid-state drives, which use chips instead of spinning disks to store data, are in high demand as companies look to the cloud to store data and push streaming content from servers to electronic devices.
VeloBit’s SSD caching software is billed to speed up applications and increase server density.
―Chris Casacchia
