Dave Montgomery , author at Western Digital Corporate Blog

Dave Montgomery

Dave Montgomery

Dave has over 20 years of experience in the enterprise storage, computing, and software business. At Western Digital, he is Director, Flash Storage Platform Marketing – a key, foundational element in the emerging Software-Defined-Storage (SDS) environment.

Dave is Director of Storage Platform Marketing with 20+ years of experience in the enterprise storage, computing, and software business.

JBOD vs. RAID vs. Erasure Coding

Data Center|Platforms|RAID

We explain the difference between these configurations, and the value that JBOD and RAID stand to bring to the modern workload set.

September 4, 2019

By Dave Montgomery

Data @ the Center of VMworld – What You Should See

Platforms|SSD|Virtualization|VMworld

VMworld 2019 is just around the corner! Here's what you should be on the lookout for at the show.

August 21, 2019

By Dave Montgomery

flash to fabric with NVMe-oF

From Flash to Fabric – Where the Data Center is Headed

Data Center|NVMe|NVMe-oF

By 2025, most data centers will likely have adopted NVMe-based fabric (NVMe-oF) for some parts of their architecture ⁠— Here’s how you get from…

July 17, 2019

By Dave Montgomery

composable disaggregated infrastructure

What is Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure?

CDI|Infrastructure|NVMe-oF|OpenFlex

Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure focuses on hardware flexibility and responsiveness powered by software, to make IT infrastructure…

June 12, 2019

By Dave Montgomery

NVMe™ over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) Explained

Infrastructure|NVMe-oF

You've heard of NVMe over Fabrics, or NVMeF, NVMf, or NVMe-oF. Learn what it is and how it will impact your IT infrastructure. Here is NVMe-oF…

April 17, 2019

By Dave Montgomery

NVMe-oF™: the Path to Software Composable Infrastructure

CDI|NVMe-oF|OpenFlex

Western Digital’s new OpenFlex architecture promises breakthrough levels of scalability, efficiency and performance. Here’s a look at some of the…

August 21, 2018

By Dave Montgomery

How Symbiotics Design™ Drives Platforms Innovation

Data Center|Platforms|Ultrastar

A few weeks ago, Western Digital’s Data Center Systems (DCS) business unit announced several new systems and platform offerings and capabilities…

July 27, 2018

By Dave Montgomery

Three Rules to Software-Defined Storage Success – Gartner Event Takeaways

Gartner|Software Defined Storage|Storage

As you build your IT strategy for 2017, here are three rules to Software-Defined Storage that you should follow to ensure its success.

December 22, 2016

By Dave Montgomery

VMworld® Sneak Peek – Tegile Bets on Blue!

partners|Tegile|VMworld

Ahead of VMworld, Dave Montgomery sat down with Tegile to learn more about the successes of IntelliFlash HD, see whether they'll be raffling an Audi…

August 24, 2016

By Dave Montgomery

SanDisk® at Red Hat Summit

Open Source

A partner ecosystem and best-in-class solutions - come see SanDisk and Western Digital in Booth #529A!

June 23, 2016

By Dave Montgomery