Explore the RISC-V strategy at Western Digital by watching this short video of Steffen Hellmold, VP of Corporate Strategy, talking with Martin Fink, CTO, as they continue their discussion regarding RISC-V, now and in the future.
August 20, 2018 • 2 min read People
Can the combination of NVMe SSDs and VMware vSAN provide the performance and cost efficiency IT needs to deliver a competitive advantage? With VMworld around the corner, we invited the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) to test our latest vSAN configuration- here is what they found out. Organizations are embracing digital transformation, but the journey has […]
August 17, 2018 • 5 min read Data
Software may have eaten the world but, thanks to DevOps’ focus on scalability and need for continuous deployment, containers are taking a bite of that software dominance. Containers are a way of packaging applications, or even individual services, in a way that makes them fast and easy to deploy for developers, while at the same […]
August 16, 2018 • 3 min read Data
From the exponential growth in data to the increase in its variety, solving IT agility often comes at a cost to efficiency. Software Composable Infrastructure offers a new approach to reduce bottlenecks, complexity and inefficiencies at scale. Here's why OpenFlex™ will drive the future of data Infrastructure.
August 7, 2018 • 5 min read People
Check out a short video of Steffen Hellmold, VP of Corporate Strategy, and Martin Fink, CTO, discussing RISC-V and why it is interesting to Western Digital. The first in a series to communicate our RISC-V strategy.
August 6, 2018 • 2 min read People
A general purpose processor is fine for most servers and mobile phones, but isn’t optimized for the specific requirements created by the rise of Big Data and Fast Data applications. A big data application such as analytics has a very different processing profile that can handle large amounts of data versus a Fast Data application such as autonomous car controls, which requires time-critical processing for smaller amounts of data.
August 6, 2018 • 6 min read Data
Guest blogger Derek Kerton, Chairman of the Autotech Council of Silicon Valley, shares a compelling perspective on the adoption of self-driving cars. Aside from the wonderment that we get from the notion of a robotic vehicle competently working its way through complicated streets and driving situations, one of the main controversies around self-driving is that […]
August 2, 2018 • 8 min read Data
Keeping up with geospatial big data can be a daunting task, particularly when it comes to transforming and garnering value from it. Here’s how one international company built an open, scalable, and cost effective solution to help them unlock the power of geospatial data. What is Geospatial data? Geospatial data (or spatial data) is basically […]
August 1, 2018 • 4 min read Data
A few weeks ago, Western Digital’s Data Center Systems (DCS) business unit announced several new systems and platform offerings and capabilities to help our customers more efficiently build, scale, and manage their workloads. These solutions are made possible by our unique Symbiotics Design approach; today I’d like to take a deeper look at our newest storage server offering […]
July 27, 2018 • 5 min read Data
From Shanghai, to Northern California, to Israel, and all around the world, the Earth’s surface has a little less trash and a little extra sparkle thanks to Western Digital employees. We are grateful for the commitment and dedication of our employees to focus their efforts in helping preserve this planet and make it a cleaner, better place for all of us to live.
July 26, 2018 • 3 min read People
