A San Jose-based unit of Western Digital Corp. acquired a maker of storage software for public and private cloud data centers.
Financial terms of HGST’s buy of Amplidata were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close this month.
The acquisition builds on Western Digital’s efforts to expand into higher-margin data-storage platforms and systems that can be scaled to address the explosive storage demand in cloud data centers.
Amplidata specializes in object storage software, which manages data as objects rather than as file systems or data within sectors or blocks.
The 7-year-old company, which has major operations in Milpitas and Belgium, received a $10 million strategic investment in September from Western Digital’s venture capital arm.
