Big Data
AI Enters the Fight to Cure Breast Cancer
Medical researchers are training deep learning models paired with powerful compute and storage technology to identify cancer biomarkers.
February 17, 2021 • 7 min read Technology
Our Global Supply Chain is Using Data Toward a Paperless Future
Shipping millions of HDDs and SSDs around the world is no small feat. Find out how our global supply chain is using data to reduce our carbon footprint.
April 20, 2020 • 4 min read People
9 Tips for Better DevOps, Self-Service and Automation
The current COVID-19 pandemic has made automated and self-service IT ecosystems critical to keep business running. Here are nine tips to help your DevOps transition.
April 10, 2020 • 6 min read Data
Big Data Solutions
Learn about storage architectures that are solutions for the challenges of data at scale, including Ultrastar hard drives and OpenFlex NVMe-oF platforms.
April 9, 2020 • 2 min read Data
100 Trillion Data Points – Western Digital Wins CIO 100 Awards
Today we’re celebrating! First, our team was named a winner of the CIO 100award, recognizing the innovative ways in which we use IT to deliver business value. Second, Western Digital’s CIO, Steve Phillpott, has been selected as one of 11 new members of the CIO Hall of Fame, acknowledged for his significant accomplishments as a senior technology leader.
March 9, 2020 • 3 min read Data
Building the Supply Chain of the Future
To create our future supply chain, we created a machine learning feedback loop that improved shipment consolidation, reliability, time in transit, and cost.
November 13, 2019 • 6 min read People
6 Ways to Optimize the Cost of Your Big Data Platform
Here are our tips and tricks about how to evaluate and optimize costs for a big data platform.
September 3, 2019 • 8 min read Technology
Building a Data Analytics Platform? Start by Futureproofing
Are you building a data analytics platform? Here's why futureproofing is a key concept you should adopt when approaching data analytics platform design.
July 22, 2019 • 6 min read Technology
Not All Data is Created Equal – Best Practices for Building a Data Strategy
Developing a data strategy is critical in both managing diverse datasets and aligning data to drive actionable business insights. But how do you do it?
June 28, 2019 • 4 min read Data
Understanding Access Patterns in Machine Learning
To help organizations understand how to build optimized data infrastructure for machine learning, they need to understand how their data is served, accessed and processed at every step. Here's a step by step outline showing data size, file systems and access patterns in machine learning.
March 12, 2019 • 6 min read Technology