Image via CrunchBaseSanDisk, the leading manufacturer of flash memory, is relying largely on its assumption about the future market of solid-state storage and staying optimistic as it reaches near in finalizing the deal of acquiring another solid-state drive maker, Pliant. The rumors claim that the deal exchanges the company for a $327 million in cash along with several equity-based incentives. Pliant has been making one of the best high-yielding SAS solid-state drives, carefully designed for a market of most enterprises and data center storage solutions. The latest endeavors of the Pliant company were to release its newly manufactured PCIe-based storage systems, which are aimed for a very high-performance servers.
This acquisition deal is being seen as a very tactical step, according to the analysts. They assert that SanDisk being one of the manufacturers of flash memory, which has a wide consumer market and applications of its own, now with the acquisition of Pliant, will also put SanDisk in the direct enterprise and corporate markets as well. ScanDisk already has the grip in the consumer products market and has lead to master its products for portable devices like phones, cameras, and media players. Having already mastered the market of consumer products, now it is showing inclination to enter the enterprise and corporate markets of Pliant as well.
