Micron and Seagate Announce Strategic Alliance
Ooh, dangerous combo alright. Micron and Seagate today announced a strategic agreement that establishes a framework for combining the innovation and expertise of both companies.
The framework of the agreement will enable customers of the two companies to benefit from a focused approach to deliver industry-leading storage solutions, helping them innovate faster and more effectively.
While initially focusing on next-generation SAS SSDs and strategic NAND supply, Micron and Seagate anticipate that this multi-year agreement will extend into future collaboration on enterprise storage solutions featuring Micron NAND flash memory. "As two of our key partners, we look forward to the benefits of this Micron and Seagate collaboration in future NAND flash-based storage technologies," said Mike Kerouac, President of Global Product Operations for EMC Corporation.
"The strategic agreement between Micron and Seagate promises to deliver new and innovative flash-based storage solutions," said Trevor Schick, Senior Vice President, EG Global Supply Chain, HP.
"This agreement enables Seagate to secure a strategic supply of NAND flash memory and enables collaboration on future products and technologies," said Phil Brace, Executive Vice President, Electronics Solutions, Seagate. "Our companies are leaders in the storage industry, and in working together we build on that success."
"The collaboration will assure both Seagate and Micron target the growing enterprise flash market with industry-leading offerings across both of our product portfolios," said Darren Thomas, Vice President of Storage, Micron. "The relationship provides Micron access to enterprise drive technology and platforms, expanding our portfolio and accelerating our push into the enterprise market segment."
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Very smart for seagate while the hdd may be here for a while yet it will die eventually
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Gate of the Sea caught the big fish finally

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Awesome I can see this turning out fantastically for Seagate, I wonder if they will stop making their SSHD's.
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Why would they? The drives work very well for the small amount of onboard NAND they have. I recently put one in my laptop and the performance is phenomenal for the cost. Hopefully, with this new partnership, they'll improve their SSHD line by increasing the NAND quantity from 8GB. Seeing as this partnership is targeting the Enterprise market and Seagate's SSHD targets the consumer market, I don't expect there to be any change.
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"tech marriage"
Micron has the NAND know how Seagate has the old school know how and the money.
Bliss.