To help organizations understand how to build optimized data infrastructure for machine learning, they need to understand how their data is served, accessed and processed at every step. Here's a step by step outline showing data size, file systems and access patterns in machine learning.
March 12, 2019 • 6 min read Technology
What makes a leader great? To find out, we sat down with some of our top leaders, who have a combined 113 years of experience at Western Digital.
March 8, 2019 • 10 min read People
Why would you embrace any new technology- and when? Technologies change over time, so deciding when to implement new technology provides different benefits and risks. Ideally, you’ll invest in a platform that you can take advantage of as it continues to grow over time and gives you the longest economic cycle with the lowest costs. If you haven't put “consider NVMe” on your new year’s resolutions, this is why you should.
March 5, 2019 • 6 min read Data
Hard drives have been around a long time and maybe because of that they don't seem to be as exciting as SSDs. Even after 60 years, though, hard drives are still advancing by great leaps. This is the first of a series of blogs detailing upcoming technologies that Western Digital is planning to deliver to customers to enable the next 60 years of hard drives. We’re going to look at technologies to allow hard drives to store more data, revolutionary hardware designs that dramatically improve hard drive performance, and advanced methods of enabling better use of those faster, denser hard drives in cloud data centers. But before we look to the future, let's review where we are today. Here are five technologies you might not know about but which are powering leading enterprise hard drives such as the 14TB Ultrastar DC HC530 and 15TB Ultrastar DC HS620 used in many cloud data centers today.
March 4, 2019 • 5 min read Data
Storage Field Day #18 was a unique opportunity to get an insider’s view of the innovations that are driving the future of big data and fast data infrastructure. Our experts and fellows shared how we’re pushing the boundaries of physics in hard drives and new energy-assist formats, the science and technology behind our flash-based devices and systems and how we are accelerating a future of composable infrastructure by leveraging NVMe innovation.
March 1, 2019 • 4 min read People
Although saturation concerns exist, we’re shortly before the next revolution of the mobile computing experience. Here’s a look at the top 8 developments shaping mobile technology and its future trends.
February 27, 2019 • 6 min read Data
The dual goals of supporting data volume and speed are driving new storage architectures in cloud and edge data centers. Here’s how our latest NVMe innovations leverage unique in-house technology design to deliver capabilities otherwise not possible, and give customers more choice.
February 26, 2019 • 5 min read Data
At its booth at Embedded World 2019, Western Digital, in collaboration with Mipsology, will demonstrate a small form factor (SFF) machine learning accelerator prototype, optimized to enhance the performance and efficiency of data-centric machine-learning applications in data centers at the edge.
February 20, 2019 • 3 min read Technology
What does it mean to be a surveillance-optimized drive? Here are 5 things to consider when choosing a drive to support your round-the-clock surveillance needs.
February 20, 2019 • 6 min read Data
Western Digital is offering scholarships for students pursuing an undergraduate STEM degree.
February 19, 2019 • 3 min read People
