SanDisk opens its cages, sets its mutants FREE SanDisk - owners of Fusion-io, who bought Nexgen and its hybrid flash/disk array business in April 2013 - has decided it doesn’t want Nexgen and is spinning it off as an independent business. Why? Sumit Sadana, SanDisk EVP and chief strategy officer, said in a canned quote: "Hybrid systems incorporating hard-disk drives are …
I was waiting for that other shoe to drop... Sandisk couldn't very well produce flash for it's own competitors now could it? That would cause some major heartburn for both parties.
This makes quite a bit of good sense imo, just wonder if Nexgen will be able to survive in the marketplace without the big backing of Sandisk. I'm betting no, but it's possible. It's decent tech, but nothing revolutionary.
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