IBM is going to buy privately held high-performance flash memory house Texas Memory Systems (TMS).
It did not disclose the terms of the definitive agreement. The deal is expected to close later this year.
The Houston company has been around since 1978. It sells its solid-state solutions as the RamSan family of shared rack-mount systems and Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) cards. They’re supposed to improve performance and reduce server sprawl, power consumption, cooling and floor space requirements.
The purchase is a shift from IBM’s usual concentration on software.