We caught up with Martin Booth, Director of Marketing for Automotive and Industrial solutions at Western Digital at the recent Autotech Council meetup, hosted by Western Digital. Martin shared his thoughts on the role of data in the automotive market as it evolves from today’s connected cars to the autonomous vehicles of the future in […]
May 8, 2018 • 6 min read Data
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
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
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
Data professionals met recently at the DataWorks Summit Europe to talk about the hottest issues relating to big data management and analytics. Whether it’s the data value chain, governance, management, metadata, or standardization, data control and regulation is a perfect storm of all things data. Here are our 8 key takeaways.
April 25, 2018 • 5 min read Data
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
The economics of data are changing. As businesses rethink how data is captured, preserved, accessed and transformed, what steps can they take to see more value from their data in 2018? The following five steps, if not already taken, are imperative to be get to extract insight from data.
April 18, 2018 • 3 min read Data
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
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
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
