Amber Huffman is a principal engineer at Google Cloud, leading industry engagement efforts in the data center ecosystem. She is on the board of multiple open source and industry organizations and has led numerous industry standards to successful adoption.
September 26, 2024 • 11 min read AI
Ravi Shankar Goli is a lead principal software engineer at Microsoft, developing a new generative AI product. He recently completed a second master’s degree focused on AI and is helping to nurture the next generation of innovators through volunteering.
September 24, 2024 • 9 min read AI
Niall MacLeod is the director of applications engineering for Western Digital storage platforms. He specializes in disaggregated storage using NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) architectures for machine learning and AI workloads.
September 18, 2024 • 9 min read AI
Robert Ober is the chief platform architect of NVIDIA's data center products. He works with global hyperscale data centers to architect AI clusters, including some of the largest deployed, and influence NVIDIA’s hardware and software platform roadmaps.
September 16, 2024 • 11 min read AI
It seems every corner of our lives is starting to feel the “AI effect.” Virtually no industry is left untouched by AI’s growing influence. Yet, in one domain, AI’s irreversible impact is increasingly evident: the data infrastructure that fuels it. Western Digital talked with four experts working at the heart of AI’s hardware and software […]
September 6, 2024 • 15 min read AI
Robert Ector is a fashion photographer for celebrity clients including Mary J. Blige, Steve Harvey, Serena Williams, Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey, and others. He travels to exotic locations to capture the glitz and glam of these famous and fashionable globetrotters, taking photos that would be difficult to replicate. “When I work with entertainers, I always […]
August 27, 2024 • 9 min read People
Despite extensive research dives and piles of visual data, ocean scientists estimate that more than 90% of marine life remains unclassified. Beneath the frothy waves, there’s a cosmopolis of undersea denizens, unknown and unaware of the world above. However, the ongoing climate crisis highlights just how entangled these two worlds are. As we seek to […]
August 20, 2024 • 8 min read Data
Details are crucial for Joyce Chen. They have to be. Chen, a senior manager of package design engineering at Western Digital, leads a team of engineers responsible for the intricacies of semiconductor packaging design. Attention to detail is just one of her traits ideally suited for the job. Packaging design involves a series of steps […]
August 13, 2024 • 6 min read People
Today at FMS 2024, Flash Business EVP and GM Rob Soderbery took the stage to deliver a view of the changing dynamics in the NAND market. We had a chance to catch up with Soderbery and discuss those dynamics, their span across capital, innovation, and technological shifts, as well as the end of what he […]
August 6, 2024 • 7 min read Products
For singer-songwriter Ouida, music was always the answer. Dancing and acting were fine, but singing opened her up like nothing else could. “Music has always been intuitive to me. “I could be vulnerable and honest, really unpack things about myself,” she said. Despite the confines of the video call, pale and unassuming, Ouida’s intuition and […]
July 30, 2024 • 7 min read People
