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Automotive at the Edge: Using AI to Predict Mass Transit Patterns

Creating fully autonomous vehicles at scale means solving not just thousands of problems, but literally millions and billions of vehicle issues and driving scenarios. There may be light at the end of the tunnel, though. Artificial intelligence (AI) could take on these challenges by predicting passenger journeys: where passengers are going, when they need to arrive, and what stops they need to make.

October 25, 2018 • 4 min read Technology

15TB HDD – Taking Big Data Capacity to the Next Level

Western Digital announces our 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 Host-Managed SMR HDD. This technological achievement in Western Digital’s Ultrastar shingled magnetic recording and helium-sealed enterprise-class HDD provides the continued basis for rack-scale data growth expansion and improved TCO, helping to tackle critical challenges of big data growth.

October 24, 2018 • 7 min read Data

How Smart Video Surveillance is Changing Edge Architectures

It’s exciting to witness the innovation happening in the video surveillance industry. Technological advancements continue at a very fast pace, driven by the desire to get more return of investment from surveillance solutions. The past year has seen a lot of buzz around A.I. and smart video, because both promise to extract more from surveillance video […]

October 23, 2018 • 7 min read Data

SQL Server 2008 EOS – a Perfect Storm for HCI and S2D

If you're in IT, you’re facing a change in server architecture and deployment with hyperconverged infrastructure; a change in storage architecture with software-defined storage, and another wave of SQL Server migration and consolidation with the imminent SQL Server 2008 EOS (End of Support). All at the same time!

October 16, 2018 • 5 min read Data

3D NAND and How the Data Explosion Defines the Future

At the recent China Flash Market Summit, Christopher Bergey, Senior Vice President of Devices Products at Western Digital, delivered a keynote address on the future of storage and memory technology. How is the data explosion driving innovation such as 3D NAND? Keep reading to find out! As the data universe continues to expand, it’s exciting […]

October 11, 2018 • 6 min read Data

Automotive at the Edge: Autonomous Delivery with AI

Imagine a world where your groceries are delivered to your driveway. Food that’s delivered, not by someone that you don’t know, but by… well, no one at all. We’re talking about the rise of autonomous delivery, and it’s not as far away as you might think.

October 8, 2018 • 4 min read Data

Automotive at the Edge: Machine Learning to Help Self-Driving Vehicles See Better

In the real-world, road conditions are rarely ideal and usually messy. For drivers, quick decisions are just a way of life on the road. If the goal is to have autonomous vehicles think like human drivers, then the vehicles need to see and react to everything in their path. As Dave Tokic, VP Marketing & Strategic Partnerships at Algolux, says, we need autonomous cars to have autonomous vision.

October 4, 2018 • 6 min read Technology

What Could Happen in a World That’s Four Degrees Warmer?

For the very first time in our history, we can collect incredible amounts of data at scale. Modern data infrastructure enables the documentation and recording of billions of species, especially the species that were never before documented or recorded, that are disappearing right now. Data science enables us to have an amazing ability to collect, analyze, predict and slow down the speed of extinction.

October 3, 2018 • 2 min read People

Accelerating the RISC-V Ecosystem

Learn about accelerating the RISC-V ecosystem: 1. The current state of the ecosystem; 2. What it needs and the work that must be done. For those who want to be part of defining, inventing and creating where the world's going to be and how the next generation of applications are going to be optimized, this is the time to be involved.

October 1, 2018 • 2 min read People

Be You & Flourish with Western Digital

You may have seen a few of our people on billboards and social media, as well as in airports and at conferences. These are our employees—the very same people who discover new solutions, bring technology to life, assure quality products and support the business.

September 25, 2018 • 2 min read People