Toshiba, HPE head 2017 storage acquisitions

The planned $17.7 billion sale of Toshiba's memory business that created lots of headlines in 2017 has yet to close, but there were other completed storage acquisitions that rocked the enterprise data storage world during the year. Most notably in 2017 storage acquisitions, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) started the year with a $650 million purchase of hyper-convergence pioneer SimpliVity. Then, HPE beefed up its storage array portfolio in March with the $1.2 billion acquisition of Nimble Storage to complement its 3PAR flash and hybrid product line.