Clay Ryder , author at Western Digital Corporate Blog

Clay Ryder

Clay has over twenty-five years of experience in the enterprise storage industry, building business momentum through strategic marketing, product positioning, and analyst relations. Clay received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Sciences from California State University, Chico.

Clay has 25+ years in the enterprise storage industry, driving business via strategic marketing, product positioning and analyst relations.

The Next-Gen Data Center is Data @ the Center

Cloud|Data Center

Here's how to take the first step and change the conversation from your data center(s) to empowering your business by placing Data @ the Center.

July 24, 2019

By Clay Ryder

Getting the Same Results? 5 Ways to Improve Your IT Strategy

Data Center|Data Strategy|NVMe|NVMe-oF

As you think about how to evolve your IT strategy from 'it's not broke' toward competitive advantage, here are the top 5 things you should consider.

May 8, 2019

By Clay Ryder

Data Interaction is Changing – What it Means for IT Infrastructure

Data at Scale|Data Center|Data Interaction

Data interaction is changing. Here's what new, data-centric environments will look like, how to support the workloads of today while preparing for…

April 12, 2019

By Clay Ryder

Evaluating New Data Center Infrastructure? 5 Questions You Should Ask

Data Center|Gartner|Infrastructure|TCO

Change is daunting. Organizations might realize they need an infrastructure makeover, but the process can seem overwhelming. How do you pick the…

March 13, 2019

By Clay Ryder

How Smart Caching Lets You Run Business at the Speed of Memory

Caching|IntelliFlash|NAND|NVMe

Enterprises are in a never-ending quest to make their applications and business run faster. Here's how we leverage NVMe and smart caching to deliver…

February 8, 2019

By Clay Ryder

Bringing Ludicrous Mode to the Data Center the Easy Way

Data Center|IntelliFlash|NVMe

Wish you had ‘Ludicrous Mode’ for some of your data? Here’s how to build a single environment that can support Ludicrous Mode and the rest of…

February 5, 2019

By Clay Ryder

Long Live Data – Data Preservation for the Broadcast Industry

Active Archive|Media and Entertainment

A challenge for many companies is data preservation, how to protect and preserve data for years to come and make a few extra bucks along the way.…

March 17, 2017

By Clay Ryder

Key Considerations for Geo-Spreading with Object Storage

Geo-Spreading|Object Storage

For most enterprises and service providers, a single location is not sufficient to deliver a high availability data protection strategy. Here are key…

March 9, 2017

By Clay Ryder