閃存記憶體供應(yīng)商SanDisk公司周三（2月15日）宣布將收購緩存軟件提供商FlashSoft公司，目前暫未公開收購價格。
SanDisk公司表示，它計劃把FlashSoft的軟件當(dāng)作單獨的產(chǎn)品出售的同時，也提供給Sandisk自己的SAS，PCIe和SATA總線的企業(yè)固態(tài)硬盤（SSD）使用。
FlashSoft的軟件主要針對Windows，Linux和VMware平臺，并將提供基于SanDisk和第三方合作伙伴的SSD軟件優(yōu)化解決方案，SanDisk表示。
SanDisk總裁兼首席執(zhí)行官桑杰·梅赫羅特拉（Sanjay Mehrotra），在一份聲明中說，“FlashSoft的軟件產(chǎn)品，豐富和完善了我們不斷增加的SAS，PCIE和SATA企業(yè)級SSD產(chǎn)品線，我們很高興FlashSoft加入SanDisk大家庭?！?
在同一天，SanDisk還表示，它正與Diskeeper公司洽談一份全球性的獨家協(xié)議，希望后者授權(quán)其緩存軟件解決方案給Sandisk的SSD。
該公司表示，根據(jù)該協(xié)議的條款，SanDisk將可以把這些解決方案當(dāng)作獨立的軟件產(chǎn)品出售，或者與SanDisk的SSD產(chǎn)品綁定。
由此產(chǎn)生的硬件/軟件捆 綁解決方案將有助于為消費類電子的OEM客戶提供優(yōu)化的計算存儲設(shè)備，如Ultrabooks和其他超薄外形產(chǎn)品，新的SSD產(chǎn)品可以提供給世界各地的消費者更高的響應(yīng)速度，更高的性能和整體更好的用戶體驗，SanDisk表示。
編譯：Luffy Liu
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參考英文原文：SanDisk buys caching software firm, by Dylan McGrath
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SanDisk buys caching software firm
Dylan McGrath
SAN FRANCISCO—Flash memory vendor SanDisk Corp. Wednesday (Feb. 15) announced the acquisition of FlashSoft Corp., a provider of caching software, for an undisclosed purchase price.
SanDisk (Milpitas, Calif.) said it plans to sell FlashSoft's products as standalone software, as well as offer them in combination with SanDisk’s portfolio of SAS, PCIe and SATA enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs).
FlashSoft's software is targeted for Windows, Linux and VMWare platforms, and will form the basis of a of SSD-optimized software solutions from SanDisk and third party partners, SanDisk said.
"FlashSoft’s software products complement our growing family of SAS, PCIe and SATA enterprise SSDs, and we are pleased to welcome FlashSoft to the SanDisk family," said Sanjay Mehrotra, president and CEO of SanDisk, in a statement.
Also Wednesday, SanDisk said it entered into a worldwide, exclusive agreement with Diskeeper Corp. to license its caching software solutions for SSDs. Under the terms of the agreement, SanDisk will provide these solutions both as standalone software products as well as bundled with SanDisk's SSD products for client computing applications, the company said. The resulting hardware/software bundled solution will help consumer OEM customers build optimized computing devices, such as Ultrabooks and other ultra-thin form factor products, that provide greater responsiveness, higher performance and an overall better user experience to consumers worldwide, SanDisk said.
