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Simplify Machine Learning Pipeline Analysis with Object Storage

Simplify Machine Learning Pipeline Analysis with Object Storage

Machine Learning is bringing exciting opportunities for applications in healthcare and will be a key enabler of digital medicine and new discoveries. Many organizations are looking at how they can adopt Machine Learning for research and analysis. In this blog post I will walk you through a standard Machine Learning pipeline, some of the challenges […]

May 3, 2018 • 7 min read Data

New Record-Breaking SQL Server Data Warehouse Fast Track Solutions

New Record-Breaking SQL Server Data Warehouse Fast Track Solutions

The new, record-breaking performance and capacity of our SQL Server Data Warehouse Fast Track solutions with HPE can help you to harness the power of data and transform your business. Learn how the Microsoft-validated, pre-configured solutions can support the most demanding data warehouse workloads to deliver faster insights for the most massive data warehouses or large database consolidation project.

May 1, 2018 • 3 min read Data

Big Data & Fast Data & RISC-V, Western Digital CTO Reveals the Connections

Big Data & Fast Data & RISC-V, Western Digital CTO Reveals the Connections

Martin Fink, Western Digital’s Chief Technology Officer, delivered the opening keynote at the recent Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) Silicon Summit in San Jose, CA. Martin described the exponential growth we’re seeing in both the volume and value of data, Big Data and Fast Data applications and use cases, and then discussed RISC-V, the purpose-built instruction set architecture.

April 26, 2018 • 3 min read People

Safety, Data at the Edge, and Changes in Autotech

Safety, Data at the Edge, and Changes in Autotech

Tremendous growth in data, data moving to the edge, and the potential to completely change how we do things is nowhere more apparent than in the automotive industry! On April 13, over 300 people converged at Western Digital for the half-day Autonomous Vehicle meetup that was jointly organized by Autotech Council and Telecom Council. Car […]

April 24, 2018 • 6 min read Data

eMentoring STEM Students to Inspire & Drive the Future

eMentoring STEM Students to Inspire & Drive the Future

Western Digital is an official launch partner of TryEngineering Together (TET), an online STEM “eMentoring” volunteer program from IEEE and Cricket Media. Western Digital employees from campuses around the U.S. were matched one-on-one across distance and time zones to eMentor students.

April 17, 2018 • 4 min read People

Introducing the Western Digital® WD Purple™ microSD card, Purpose-built for Surveillance

Introducing the Western Digital® WD Purple™ microSD card, Purpose-built for Surveillance

Today, we’re pleased to introduce our first memory card storage device specifically designed for the surveillance edge: the WD Purple™ microSD card.  If the name sounds familiar, it should be. This new product leverages experience from over 20 years and 2 billion microSD cards shipped, along with over three years’ history of delivering award-winning hard […]

April 11, 2018 • 6 min read Data

Better Data Lake with Apache Hadoop® on Object Storage

Better Data Lake with Apache Hadoop® on Object Storage

S3A is Hadoop's new S3 adapter that allows you to connect your Hadoop cluster to any S3 compatible object storage. Here are three advantages to using Apache Hadoop® on Object Storage vs. traditional scale-out storage, and how you can build a better data lake today.

April 10, 2018 • 5 min read Data

Powering the Gaming Experience with NVMe™

Powering the Gaming Experience with NVMe™

The world of gaming is changing dramatically. New technologies are bringing ultra-high resolutions, higher frame rates, computed virtual field of view and ultimately, incredible immersive experiences! But fueling these enhancements requires strong hardware components that can support large graphics, 4K/8K video, and VR/AR content. This week at PAX East in Boston, MA, Western Digital launched […]

April 5, 2018 • 4 min read Data