Western Digital Capital, the strategic investment fund of Western Digital Corp. announced its strategic investment in Excelero, representing as the fourth strategic investor in Excelero along with Micron and Qualcomm, thus bringing the total VC funds exposure in the company to $35 million. 
Separate from the funding, both the companies have begun technical collaboration activities whereby the two firms are offering web-scale storage solutions to some of the world’s largest, most demanding enterprises and service providers. By harnessing Excelero’s award-winning NVMesh software-defined block storage solution along with Western Digital’s NVMe SSD hardware, the companies are delivering unrivaled storage scalability, performance, and agility.
“Excelero has developed a software-defined block storage solution designed to redefine storage for web-scale applications. The company is addressing an important and growing challenge associated with traditional architectures and we are pleased to support their efforts,” said Mark Long, president, Western Digital Capital. “Western Digital is committed to providing a variety of options to customers to solve the increasing challenge of managing AI, real-time analytics and other Fast Data applications. Our new OpenFlex architecture and products allow for the independent scaling of compute, storage and network resources, with orchestration and management enabled through an open API. We look forward to working with Excelero to integrate and advance our technologies to create even more powerful solutions for customers in data-centric businesses.”
Excelero is experiencing the rapid adoption that speaks to the appeal of its hardware-agnostic approach. As more enterprises embrace web-scale architectures, Excelero is delivering the agility, ready scalability and efficiency from which to easily grow their operations.
Lior Gal, CEO and co-founder of Excelero said “We’re honored to receive this strategic funding from Western Digital Capital, and to embark on a technical collaboration with Western Digital. We look forward to accelerating our go-to-market efforts together as we drive innovation in data center technologies.”
