Western Digital buys NVMe-oF startup Kazan Networks

guest · Sep 11, 2019

Western Digital buys NVMe-oF startup Kazan Networks
September 11, 2019
https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/09/11/western-digital-kazan-networks-acquisition/

Western Digital has bought a small startup called Kazan Networks and its NVMe over Fabrics Ethernet connectivity products. Financial terms are undisclosed and the Kazan people are joining WD.

Kazan makes Onyx NVMe target bridge adaptors that enable NVMe JBOFs (Just a Bunch of Flash drives) to connect directly to NVMe-oF networks. The company claims Onyx has the world’s lowest-power, lowest-latency and highest performance for such a bridge.
WD can use Kazan technology in its IntelliFlash JBOF and OpenFlex composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) systems.

Phil Bullinger, head of WD’s data center systems business, provided a quote confirming this: “The addition of Kazan Networks will further expand Western Digital’s leadership in disaggregated data infrastructure and accelerate the advancement of new, CDI-ready NVMe-oF platforms optimised for our customers’ next-generation hyperscale workloads.”
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Press Release

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2019/09/11/kazan-networks-acquired-by-western-digital/
In last known 4FQ19 WD records revenue of $1.5 billion in SSDs, down 6% Q/Q and representing 42% of global sales, compared to 58% for HDDs, sequentially up 3%, but the storage company is pushing more its business in flash as the total market of HDDs is currently decreasing.

WD was already an investor in the company when it raised total of $4.5 million in series A funding round in Juy 2016 led by Samsung Ventures, with the participation from Intel Capital.

Kazan was launched by a team of veterans who trace their roots back to the systems business at HP in the early 90s.
This team has been awarded 60 patents in the areas of storage and networking.
The start-up has only $4.4 million in estimated revenue annually, according to crunchbase.
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