The Petabytes of Data Behind Montreux Jazz Festival’s Legacy
Here's the story of how the Montreux Jazz Festival invested ten years in digitizing 14,000 tapes to create a multi-petabyte archive.
February 9, 2019 • 4 min read Data
5 Reasons Enterprises are Finding it Hard to Adopt AI
Last year may have been AI’s biggest year. Yet its application in real-world use cases are still very far. Why are companies and enterprises struggling to adopt AI? We asked leading AI expert Yves Bergquist to explain the AI – enterprise bottleneck. Erik: How do you summarize what happened with AI in 2018? Yves: The […]
February 4, 2019 • 5 min read Technology
Western Digital’s New Collaboration with UCSC on Genomics Sequencing Could Accelerate Results
This multi-year, joint research and development agreement with the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and Baskin School of Engineering supports a collaborative team in genomics and computer engineering who believe that moving computational capabilities closer to data storage will help speed up the process of identifying and treating cancer.
January 29, 2019 • 3 min read Data
Why Diversity and Inclusion Creates a Better Workplace
Western Digital's new Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion, Roger Crockett, discusses the importance of an open and inclusive workplace culture.
January 23, 2019 • 6 min read People
Best of 2018 – Our Top Technology Trends
Our top stories, most read blogs and most engaged videos, and a summary of the technology trends that mattered most to our readers. Key content from each topic that can help you get up to speed and ahead of the emerging technology game in 2019.
December 26, 2018 • 4 min read Technology
The Ultrastar® Memory Drive – How Our Memory Extension Drive Works
Cloud architects, digital platform stakeholders, and the HPC user community may use the Ultrastar memory drive to scale memory pools for real-time analytics, scientific workloads, and addition memory-demanding workloads. In this blog, I will show you the step-by-step boot process for a Linux environment and the availability of Ultrastar memory drive “virtualized memory pools” for use by in-memory workloads.
December 21, 2018 • 4 min read Data
Here Comes Santa Claus, Right Down IoT Lane
Santa will need some serious help and logistics overhaul to keep up with his operations. His data requirements are both massive and complex – ingesting billions of requests, processing IoT data for predictive analytics and achieving same-day delivery worldwide. How can he transform his operations in the digital age?
December 20, 2018 • 4 min read Technology
Unleashing Innovation from Core to the Edge
At the first RISC-V Summit in Santa Clara, California, Western Digital EVP & CTO Martin Fink delivered a keynote entitled, "Unleashing Innovation from Core to the Edge," punctuated by announcements of three new Western Digital developed open-source innovations.
December 19, 2018 • 2 min read People
Maximizing TCO Savings with High Capacity Hard Drives
Whether you’re building the next big hyperscale app or managing a 4-node cluster, reducing costs is key to scaling. Here are the key TCO Principals to help you maximize savings with high-capacity hard drives.
December 12, 2018 • 7 min read Data
How Helium Powers Our New Generation of 14TB HDDs
Drive technology has advanced at an incredible cadence. From helium sealing to Two Dimensional Magnetic Recording, here are some of the scientific advancements that enable our latest generation of 14TB HDDs.
December 12, 2018 • 6 min read Data