The Technology Market continues to be frantic, after the largest purchase made until the moment when the Dell Purchased EMC for 67 Billions of USD, now Western Digital Copany bought the SanDisk for 19 billion USD, giving you better access to the memory cards used in most Smartphones and mobile devices.
It is known by many that SanDisk is the third largest manufacturer of Memory Cards, after Samsung and Toshiba. While SanDisk is strong in the memory card market, Western Digital is one of the largest manufacturers of hard drives for computers.
According to Steve Milligan (CEO of Western Digital Company), this purchase aligns with the company's long-term strategy to be an innovative leader in the storage industry by delivering attractive, high-quality products with the latest technology.
What can Customers expect with this merger?
Soon they will be able to complement products from the two companies, including hard drives, solid state drives, cloud data center storage solutions, and flash storage solutions, “will provide the foundation for a broader set of consumer products and technologies. for data center ”. It should be noted that this transaction will be fully concluded in the third quarter of 2016.
So with the merger of these two giants it will do well in the ongoing consolidation in the storage market, by combining a dominant force in the hard drive market with a leader in flash storage.
Probably with this merger, we will soon have Hard Drives with the name “SanDisk”
