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Building the Supply Chain of the Future

Building the Supply Chain of the Future

To create our future supply chain, we created a machine learning feedback loop that improved shipment consolidation, reliability, time in transit, and cost.

November 13, 2019 • 6 min read People

SCinet’19 – Making the Impossible Possible

SCinet’19 – Making the Impossible Possible

Western Digital and Pavilion Data Systems are providing the high-performance storage infrastructure with NVMe™ and NVMe-over-Fabrics storage for the SCinet network and its participants.

November 7, 2019 • 3 min read Data

Making Data Infrastructure Safer and More Transparent with OpenTitan

Making Data Infrastructure Safer and More Transparent with OpenTitan

We have entered an exciting new partnership with lowRISC and Google in support of OpenTitan, the first open-source project building transparent, high-quality reference design and integration guidelines for silicon root of trust (RoT) chips that can be used in data storage, compute, and other hardware platforms.

November 5, 2019 • 5 min read People

SAS Lives On and Here’s Why

SAS Lives On and Here’s Why

The Ultrastar DC SS540 SAS SSDs are our 6th generation of SAS SSDs and are the ideal drives for all-flash arrays, caching tiers, HPC and SDS environments.

November 4, 2019 • 3 min read Data

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How to Shift to Data @ the Center

We have several resources to help you move beyond supporting – and storing – data in the data center to actually realizing the power within all of that information.

October 16, 2019 • 3 min read Data

Tech It Out! We Helped Open a Tech Lab for Bay Area Youth

Tech It Out! We Helped Open a Tech Lab for Bay Area Youth

For kids growing up in East Palo Alto, a historically underserved community in the affluent Bay Area, having access to safe and enriching after-school programs has been a hurdle for many years. The city has long had to deal with challenges in the community. In recent times, though, much progress has been made. The chance […]

October 15, 2019 • 3 min read People

4 Reasons You Should Be Excited at OCP Amsterdam

4 Reasons You Should Be Excited at OCP Amsterdam

The open-source community is pushing forward new technology to make hardware more flexible, scalable, and efficient. As a leader in energy-conscious hardware design, we’re excited to participate in the Open Compute Project (OCP) Regional Summit, taking place in Amsterdam. This two-day event – tailored for hardware designers, data center architects, infrastructure engineers, and other technologists […]

September 25, 2019 • 3 min read Data