Samsung Electronics has acquired Proximal Data, a developer of software that caches I/O in the server virtualization layer, to boost its SSD offering in the server market.

The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Under the terms of the agreement, we are not disclosing the details of the transaction,” a Samsung spokeswoman wrote in an email.

Proximal in San Diego, California, offers AutoCache, which attaches inside standard hypervisors such as VMware ESXi, where it inspects I/O from all virtual machines and places hot I/O into a local PCIe flash card or SSD. Embedded intelligence provides hot reads back to virtual machines that request them, without needing the system administrator to modify the deployed storage or VM infrastructure, according to a product brief.

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