HOUSTON, 1 Sept. 2007.VMETRO has acquired Micro Memory LLC. VMETRO is a provider of embedded computing, data recording, storage, and protocol analyzer products for more than 20 years. Micro Memory, a privately held U.S.-based company with headquarters in Chatsworth, Calif., has provided high-performance board-level products for streaming signal and image processing, real-time data acquisition, memory nodes, and enterprise network storage for more than 30 years.
The addition of Micro Memory improves VMETRO's capabilities to serve existing defense and aerospace customers and increases VMETRO's market diversification. This acquisition leverages the strengths of each company by combining VMETRO's world-wide presence, its two European design centers, and its strong sales and marketing infrastructure with Micro Memory's technology, its U.S. customer base, and its U.S. design center.
Micro Memory's real-time embedded system products will add breadth and depth to VMETRO's embedded Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and high-performance data recording offerings.
The Micro Memory VITA 41 (VXS) products strengthen VMETRO's existing VXS leadership position. Both companies are heavily committed to the VITA 46/48 (VPX/VPX-REDI) standards; this commitment combined with Micro Memory's proven Serial RapidIO IP will bolster VMETRO's VPX product introduction.
In addition to providing VMETRO a broader embedded product portfolio, this acquisition enables further diversification into a new market sector for the company through sales of Micro Memory's Umem NVRAM cards. These products are solid-state, non-volatile random access PCI memory cards that increase performance while maintaining reliability in storage servers and appliances that are currently utilized by leading Tier I/II OEMs to satisfy applications in the rapidly growing segments of enterprise network storage.
