Mike McWhorter , author at Western Digital Corporate Blog

Mike McWhorter

Mike McWhorter is a Senior Technologist for Western Digital. He specializes in performance tuning and storage optimization for Western Digital's big data customers. Mike received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Longwood University in Virginia.

Mike is a Senior Technologist for Western Digital and specializes in performance tuning and storage optimization for big data customers.

Data Pipeline Service — Microservices Tutorial

ActiveScale|Cloud|Object Storage

We recently announced several exciting new features in the ActiveScale 5.5 OS, including our Data Pipeline Service. In this blog I’ll walk you…

August 1, 2019

By Mike McWhorter

Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud – What Workloads Fit Where

Cloud|Data at Scale|Hybrid Cloud

The cloud hosting model has completely transformed the IT industry, yet not every workload is ideally suited for the public cloud, or will see cost…

April 8, 2019

By Mike McWhorter

Hyperscale? Why RAID Systems Are Dangerous – And Why You Should Stop Using Them

ActiveScale|Data at Scale|IntelliFlash|RAID

RAID has been around for a long time, and at this point, most people consider it to be a reliable and well understood technology. But as data…

February 22, 2019

By Mike McWhorter

Splunk® SmartStore – How to Supercharge Splunk’s New Architecture

ActiveScale|Object Storage|Splunk

Splunk Smart Store is a radical departure from the classic architecture, designed to make Splunk more cloud-friendly. Here’s what you need to know,…

October 2, 2018

By Mike McWhorter

Better Data Lake with Apache Hadoop® on Object Storage

Hadoop|HDFS|Object Storage|S3A

S3A is Hadoop's new S3 adapter that allows you to connect your Hadoop cluster to any S3 compatible object storage. Here are three advantages to using…

April 10, 2018

By Mike McWhorter