WDC's biz banquet has made it a chips-to-disks-to-systems monstrosity

CEO Milligan has reshaped firm upwards and outwards

Analysis Western Digital Corporation under CEO Steve Milligan's rule is becoming an aggressively expanding chips, disks, systems and cloud storage business. It's trying to buy Toshiba's flash foundry joint-venture interest and has just announced it's buying storage array-maker Tegile and personal cloud storage provider Upthere. What is Milligan up to?"