- Western Digital announced that it has acquired Kazan Networks, a provider of industry-leading NVMe-over-Fabric (NVMe-oF) ASIC and adapter products for next-generation data center architectures
Western Digital recently announced that it acquired Kazan Networks, which is a provider of industry-leading NVMe-over-Fabric (NVMe-oF) ASIC and adapter products for next-generation data center architectures. The terms of the deal were undisclosed.
Kazan Networks is known for offering the industry’s highest-performing and most power-efficient NVMe-oF bridge solutions to seamlessly connect and share JBOFs and other data center resources over fabric. And the addition of Kazan Networks’ portfolio of adapter- and ASIC-level integration products — which include the Fuji NVMe-oF Bridge ASIC and the Onyx NVMe-oF Bridge Adapter — will immediately accelerate Western Digital’s data infrastructure leadership, capabilities, and offerings.
This acquisition will expand Western Digital’s expertise in advanced fabric-enabled architectures that will enable the company to enhance its portfolio of NVMe fabric-ready platforms and systems, including its OpenFlex composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) offerings introduced by the company last year.
“Kazan Networks is a proven innovator in high-performance networking and NVMe-oF, with industry-leading solutions to connect storage subsystems to an Ethernet fabric,” said Phil Bullinger, the senior vice president and general manager of Western Digital’s Data Center Systems business. “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 optimized for our customers’ next-generation hyperscale workloads. We are pleased to welcome the Kazan Networks’ talented team to our organization.”
This growth in volume, variety, and velocity of data is driving the demand for flexible, scalable, and disaggregated data center environments that can effectively adapt to diverse and dynamic applications workloads. And Western Digital has taken an active role in advancing CDI and NVMe fabric-based technologies with multiple related strategic investments and ecosystem partnerships, support of open standards, and its OpenFlex platform and portfolio – which includes the industry’s fastest NVMe-oF open composable storage platform.
The acquisition of Kazan Networks will add cutting-edge ASIC and adapter products with established interoperability with a wide ecosystem of partners, new and expanded customer relationships, and a proven team deeply experienced in networking and bridging technology.
“The Kazan Networks team is excited to join Western Digital, with whom we share a long-standing relationship and commitment to advancing NVMe-oF technology and CDI,” added Margie Evashenk, the CEO of Kazan Networks. “The close integration of purpose-built controller and storage technology is pivotal to realizing the full benefits of advanced next-generation fabric architectures, including lower power, higher performance, and lower cost. The team looks forward to working together to transform data centers through interconnected innovation.”
