Hard disk manufacturer Western Digital has acquired one of its portfolio companies, US-based advanced data transfer technology provider Kazan Networks, for an undisclosed amount.
Founded in 2014, Kazan produces bridge adapter products to facilitate high-bandwidth data transfer in data centres at low latency. They meet an industry specification called NVMe-over-Fabric (oF), which allows data transfer across a multitude of sources in real time.
The acquisition will augment Western Digital’s data infrastructure product portfolio and expertise in fabric-enabled data transfer architectures, building on the introduction of its OpenFlex platform, which supports NVMe-oF, in 2018.
Kazan secured $4.5m in a 2016 series A round led by Samsung Ventures, a subsidiary of electronics producer Samsung, which invested alongside Western Digital and Intel Capital, the corporate venture capital arm of semiconductor and data technology producer Intel.