Amplidata, a Milpitas, CA-based provider of object-based software defined storage, received a $10m strategic investment from Western Digital Capital.
HGST, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital Corp., has selected Amplidata’s Himalaya™ software to jointly develop a family of ultra-dense storage solutions to address the demand to store data in public and private cloud data centers. The companies will partner to create solutions to improve the storage economics for the Exabyte-scale needs of large businesses and will be available in the market during the first half of 2015.
Founded in 2008 and led by Mike Wall, chairman and CEO, Amplidata offers software for object-based software defined storage for enterprises, service providers and OEMs.
The company has European headquarters in Lochristi, Belgium ans sales and support are worldwide.
FinSMEs
08/09/2014