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.

The market of PCs, tablets and smartphones will grow 6% in 2013

Combination of PCs, tablets and smartphones sales worldwide will remain upward in the next two years.

According to estimates of the prestigious Gartner Consulting, in 2013 the growth will be 6% to a total of 2,350 million devices.

Is expected that PC marketing fall to 10.6% in 2013. Or sales ultrabooks, nor Chromebooks, nor of devices with Windows 8 will help to increase sales in an industry that will remain in the doldrums. The fall will mitigate thanks to shipments of ultra-light devices against the PC classics.

The consumerist emphasis will move to mobile devices. The Tablet shipments will grow a 67.9% to 202 million units, while the mobile market will grow by 4.3% to 1.8 billion units (between smartphones and mobile phones).

In terms of operating systems, Android will continue to dominate the global picture. It OS from Google will double its presence between 2012 and 2014.

"The presence of Apple is the more homogeneous", indicate analysts after the report. The presence of Android brings together 90% of mobile phones and Microsoft in 85% of the PC market.

Asia-Pacific will be placed over Europe in the enterprise storage market

According to a report by consulting firm IDC, in the next two years there will be a change in the enterprise storage market.

Data from IDC speak that market Asia-Pacific excluding Japan, will start ahead of Western Europe and only behind the United States, which will remain the undisputed leader.

Some emerging regions as Asia Pacific excluding Japan, Middle East, and Africa, "will continue to show very high growth rates, thanks to the increase in the demand for services of enterprise storage and the emergence of new infrastructures in growing economies".

In relation to the figures of the global expenditure in enterprise data storage markets, forecasts speak of a growing annual average of 4.1 per cent between 2012 and 2017, reaching assume 42,500 million euros last year.

Digital files, business documents storage and the importance of data protection, have been essential to that growth, as they reported at ITProPortal.

Also IDC indicates in its report that in 2017 the demand of the companies reach the 102 exabytes of storage and 36 exabytes of storage internal figures that involve a significant growth of 20 external exabytes and 8 inmates reached in 2012.

Sony overtakes Apple in smartphones in Japan market

The giant of Cupertino has widely been overtaken by Sony in Japan, since the Japanese company has set up business plans which have proven to be a success.
Sony has bet strong by a sales strategy based on a discount program that has carried out together with the operator NTT DoCoMo, reported in Bloomberg.