Western Digital Accelerates Leadership in Next-Generation Data Center Architectures With Acquisition of Kazan Networks

Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) and Kazan Networks introduced nowadays that Western Digital has completed the acquisition of Kazan Networks, a issuer of industry-main NVMe™-over-Fabric (NVMe-oF) ASIC and adapter products for next-generation information middle architectures. Financial terms of the transaction have been no longer disclosed.

>Kazan Networks gives the industry's maximum acting and maximum power green NVMe-oF bridge answers to seamlessly join and proportion JBOFs and other information middle assets over material. The addition of Kazan Networks' portfolio of adapter- and ASIC-level integration merchandise, which include the Fuji NVMe-oF Bridge ASIC and the Onyx NVMe-oF Bridge Adapter, will without delay accelerate Western Digital's facts infrastructure management, talents and services. The acquisition also expands Western Digital's understanding in superior fabric-enabled architectures in order to enable the organisation to decorate its portfolio of NVMe cloth-geared up structures and systems, such as its OpenFlex™ composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) offerings which had been introduced with the aid of the company ultimate yr.

"Kazan Networks is a validated innovator in high-overall performance networking and NVMe-oF, with industry-leading solutions to attach storage subsystems to an Ethernet fabric," stated Phil Bullinger, senior vice chairman and preferred supervisor of Western Digital's Data Center Systems enterprise. "The addition of Kazan Networks will in addition amplify Western Digital's management in disaggregated information infrastructure and boost up the development of latest, CDI-prepared NVMe-oF systems optimized for our clients' next-technology hyperscale workloads. We are pleased to welcome the Kazan Networks' talented group to our company."

The exponential growth inside the volume, variety and speed of records is riding the demand for bendy, scalable and disaggregated information middle environments that may efficaciously adapt to diverse and dynamic packages workloads. Western Digital has taken an lively position in supporting to develop CDI and NVMe material-based technology, with multiple associated strategic investments and environment partnerships, cause-built era innovations, aid of open standards, and its OpenFlex platform and portfolio – which includes the enterprise's fastest NVMe-oF open composable storage platform.

The acquisition of Kazan Networks adds modern ASIC and adapter products with set up interoperability with a huge atmosphere of partners, new and elevated client relationships, and a validated group deeply experienced in networking and bridging technology.

"The Kazan Networks group is happy to join Western Digital, with whom we share a protracted-status relationship and commitment to advancing NVMe-oF era and CDI," stated Margie Evashenk, chief govt officer, Kazan Networks. "The near integration of reason-built controller and garage generation is pivotal to understanding the full blessings of superior subsequent-era cloth architectures, together with lower energy, higher performance and decrease price. The crew looks ahead to running collectively to transform information facilities through interconnected  innovation."