We think that this division will be a big driver of growth going forward, mainly because SSDs seem to be taking over traditional hard drives as the primary form of storage on laptops and enterprise servers.
In fact, the disruption and chaos from a merge often drives customers away and is the primary reason acquisitions do not measure up to their projected financial benefits.
Caching and buffering using solid state drives (SSDs) are becoming wide-spread in many enterprise applications with some primary storage systems using only solid state storage vying for some applications.