Generative AI and the Next Era of Software Engineering
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
On Building AI Storage Systems
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
NVIDIA’s Chief Platform Architect on Scaling 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
How AI is Reshaping the World’s Data Systems
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
Details in the Data with Fashion Photographer Robert Ector
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
Into the FathomVerse: Community science, data, and the sea
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
Joyce Chen: The Intricate Details of Substrate Design
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
The New Era of NAND: A Conversation with Rob Soderbery
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
What’s Your Create: Ouida
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
A Balancing Act: HDDs and SSDs in Modern Data Centers
It’s true that flash storage is getting faster and more affordable, but hard drives (HDDs) continue to play a major role in the enterprise. Nowhere is this more apparent than in today’s data centers where the amount of data created continues to grow exponentially, fueled further by the AI Data Cycle. While consumers tend to […]
July 25, 2024 • 6 min read Data