Pushing HPC Boundaries to Design Future Hard Drives
We set a high-performance computing (HPC) record with AWS by running 2.5 million tasks on 1 million cores. Here's what prompted it.
July 1, 2019 • 5 min read Data
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NVMe-oF™: Answers to Your Most Asked Questions
Key answers to your questions about NVMe-oF protocol and the fabric that stitches it together.
June 28, 2019 • 4 min read Data
Raising the Tide – First Demo of microSD™ Express
MicroSD Express, supported by NVMe and PCIe, is opening a whole new world of data opportunities for mobile device computing capabilities and experiences.
June 28, 2019 • 4 min read Data
Not All Data is Created Equal – Best Practices for Building a Data Strategy
Developing a data strategy is critical in both managing diverse datasets and aligning data to drive actionable business insights. But how do you do it?
June 28, 2019 • 4 min read Data
Western Digital Takes Pride in Pride
Perhaps you noticed that the Western Digital logo looked a little different this June? I am quite pleased to share that we decided to introduce a rainbow version of our logo for the month of June, also known as Pride Month. The rainbow is a powerful symbol showing support for the LGBTQ+ community, and the […]
June 26, 2019 • 5 min read People
OmniXtend™ Cache-Coherent Fabric Drives Innovation with RISC-V
OmniXtend is the open approach to providing cache coherent memory over an Ethernet fabric & can enable innovation in next-generation data-centric computing.
June 18, 2019 • 3 min read Data
How to Build a Data Strategy Framework
Once stakeholders agree that data is an asset to us, who actually sits in the captain’s chair and steers the ship toward building and executing on the data strategy framework?
June 17, 2019 • 3 min read Data
What is Zoned Storage and the Zoned Storage Initiative?
Zoned Storage is a new paradigm in storage motivated by the incredible explosion of data. This blog looks at what it is, how it's being adopted, SMR HDDs and Zoned Namespaces SSDs use cases, and the Zoned Storage Initiative.
June 14, 2019 • 8 min read Data
What is Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure?
Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure focuses on hardware flexibility and responsiveness powered by software, to make IT infrastructure significantly easier to automate.
June 12, 2019 • 7 min read Data
Enabling the Zettabyte Age
An ecosystem of hardware and software developers progress into the zettabyte age and drive the innovation needed for next generation data infrastructure.
June 11, 2019 • 6 min read Data