Western Digital buy sTec to continue growing in the market of SSD hard drives

The American producer of hard disks Western Digital has reached an agreement to buy its rival Stec for 340 million dollars, in a deal that will allow you to increase your market share.

sTec is a veteran California specializing in Flash drives (SSD) who was born in 1990, and in recent years is mired in a crisis because of the advance of companies like the own Western Digital, Seagate or Fusion-io, the current market leader.

In addition, sTec last year suffered a scandal when it was discovered that its co-founder and CEO Manouch'k Moshayedi, who founded the company along with his brother Mike, he had used inside information to profit in the stock market.

For Western Digital purchase lets you focus in disks SSD, a business with a future and growth, in contrast to traditional hard drives.

The offer made from Western Digital amounts to the 6.85 dollars per share, which is equivalent to 91% of the closing share price last Friday.

Finally, should be noted that it is expected that the operation will occur during the third or fourth quarter of this year 2013.

By 2020 there will be 35.2 zettabytes of digital information

Win the career success of those companies able to convert large volumes of data into knowledge.

Within 7 years there will be 35.2 zettabytes of digital information. What is this number? Considering that 1 zb is equal to one trillion gigabytes... it can be estimated that there will be more than 37,000 million GB in circulation by in cyberspace.

For those who still do not is the idea. 1.8 zb are equivalent to 200 HD movies billion.

With these data on the table, not strange that Big Data profile as a driving force in the information age, where the data will be that drink and water will depend on much of the business world.

The main sources that generate large amounts of data are, according to estimates of Sogeti, traditional business applications, mobile data, search engines, social networks and the information from sensors.

The companies that get separate the really valuable from other information, process it and turn it into knowledge will be those who win the race. And therefore will require a strategy for Big Data, with a strong roadmap that would raise benefits in the medium term. Gartner estimates do not give rise to doubts: companies that climbing on Big Data will have some results financierosn 20% best to those who do not.