M&A Deal Summary

Western Digital Acquires Amplidata NV

On March 16, 2015, Western Digital acquired software company Amplidata NV

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Western Digital’s 6th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Western Digital’s 1st transaction in Belgium.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2015-03-16
Target Amplidata NV
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Western Digital
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Amplidata NV

Lochristi, Belgium
Amplidata NV is a privately-held developer of object storage software for public and private cloud data centers. Amplidata’s Himalaya software is a versatile platform for massively-scalable, secure and flexible storage services and solutions.

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Buyer

Western Digital

San Jose, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1970
Sector Technology Hardware
Employees51,000
Revenue 13.0B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Western Digital's corporate headquarters in Irvine, California.
Western Digital's corporate headquarters in Irvine, California.

Western Digital is a developer and manufacturer of storage products that enable people to create, manage, experience and preserve digital content. The Company designs and makes storage devices, networking equipment and home entertainment products under the WD, HGST and G-Technology brands. Western Digital was formed in 1970 and is based in San Jose, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 10 of 15
Sector: Software M&A 6 of 6
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 8 of 12
Country: Belgium M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2015 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-10-17 Virident

Milpitas, California, United States

Virident, Inc., a leading provider of server-side flash storage for virtualization, database, cloud computing, and webscale applications.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-10-21 SanDisk

Milpitas, California, United States

SanDisk Corporation is an American multinational corporation that designs, develops and manufactures flash memory storage solutions and software.

Buy $19.0B