| REVIEW | WDC Western Digital today announced that the company suddenly quit storage systems market, will sell its business to IntelliFlash DataDirect Networks (referred to as the DDN) company. Also another part of the storage systems business ActiveScale will also seek to sell. |
Western Digital to exit the storage systems market? Yeah, but here that the storage system is not ordinary players understand the flash memory, a hard disk, this part is still the core business of Western Digital and Western Digital quit storage systems business is actually a storage array system, in other words the number of West I decided to base myself as a component supplier, no longer do their own storage systems sold to other companies of the array.
Even so, such a decision is still a lot of people surprised, because Western Digital's business is only IntelliFlash September 2017 acquisition of Tegile Systems Inc. of flash, just two years to sell, it is a bit unusual, it is either because it was the acquisition of Tegile systems Flash value this company is not part of the business, or is that Western Digital storage systems could not handle the business, simply sell.
Storage systems market now it would not be a sunset industry, is the fire in the field of storage systems, high performance computing, data centers, and took over the business DDN company IntelliFlash heady two years, more than a year has acquired a number of storage systems company or business, including Intel's Lustre business, as well as mixed array vendors Tintri, software-defined storage vendors Nexenta, won IntelliFlash business now Western Digital.
Western Digital and DDN did not disclose the specific amount of the transaction is expected in Q3 quarter of fiscal year 2020 will produce non-GAAP earnings per share of 0.2 US dollars, but it will bring restructuring and other charges, it can not be estimated yet.
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