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Western Digital snaps up SiliconSystems

 

Published 3/30/2009 at The Register

Flash for cash Western Digital is buying solid state disk supplier SiliconSystems for $65m in cash, and will supply SSDs to the netbook, notebook and enterprise markets.… Whitepaper - Accelerating virtualised environments (link)

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