Cloud Computing: How your iMessages and Amazon purchases are driving the tech megadeal frenzy

Storage-hardware maker Western Digital announced on Wednesday it will buy flash memory giant SanDisk for $19 billion.  It’s just the latest multi-billion dollar deal in the tech industry this year, following Intel’s takeover of Altera, Avago’s acquisition of Broadcom, and Dell’s $67 billion takeover of EMC.

 

What’s behind many of these transactions are huge shifts in the way we capture and store data — be it cell phone data, ecommerce data, or any other computer data…