Western Digital and Ray Lucchesi are both names synonymous with storage. We had them both attending Storage Field Day earlier this year. Ray was particularly interested in the companies ActiveScale object storage, a result of the company’s Amplidata acquisition in 2015. Ray runs through how ActiveScale could be well suited for data analytics.
Western Digital
Western Digital acquired the following Field Day presenting companies: Tegile (2017) SanDisk (2016) Fusion-io (2014) Virident (2013) HGST (2012)