Tintri saviour to acquire former Tegile business

DDN snaps up unit from Western Digital

DataDirect Networks (DDN) has continued its acquisition spree by acquiring the former Tegile storage business.

Tegile was acquired by Western Digital in 2017, before being renamed IntelliFlash.

The move marks a U-turn for Western Digital, which said it is exiting the storage systems business. The vendor is also "exploring strategic options" for the sale of its ActiveScale storage division.

COO Mike Cordano said: "As we look to the future, scaling and accelerating growth opportunities for IntelliFlash and ActiveScale will require additional management focus and investment to ensure long-term success.

"By refocusing our datacentre systems resources on our storage platforms business, we are confident that the Western Digital portfolio will be better positioned to capture significant opportunities ahead and drive long-term value creation."

DDN's profile was raised last year when it acquired the struggling Tintri business, and it has since snapped up Nexenta and Lustre.

Alex Bouzari, CEO at DDN, said: "We are delighted to add Western Digital's high-performance enterprise hybrid, all-flash and NVMe solutions to DDN's industry-leading data management at scale product portfolio.

"With this acquisition, we are also strengthening our strategic partnership with Western Digital, which will become both a customer of IntelliFlash by DDN and a key HDD and SSD supplier to DDN."

DDN said it now has 10,000 customers and 5,000 partners worldwide.