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Innovation in Surveillance: What’s Changing at the Edge, Core and Cloud?

Innovation in Surveillance: What’s Changing at the Edge, Core and Cloud?

What’s new in the surveillance market? To say that interesting things are happening around surveillance technology would be a huge understatement. As we gear up for ISC West this year, some of the most significant trends we’re seeing are: artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, the power of IoT, combining different data sources to add meta […]

April 3, 2018 • 5 min read Data

Ultimate NAB – The Big 5 with Chuck Correll

Ultimate NAB – The Big 5 with Chuck Correll

From digital edge, to monetizing content, blockchain and more - The Big 5 with Chuck Correll of Equinix is your ultimate NAB Show preview on the big trends in media & entertainment.

April 2, 2018 • 7 min read Data

Deduplication in the Cloud – Getting the Most of Hybrid Cloud Workflows

Deduplication in the Cloud – Getting the Most of Hybrid Cloud Workflows

The impact of deduplication on traditional storage efficiency was significant. Now deduplication is expanding to deliver those benefits to cloud environments. In this blog post I’ll look at how our new partnership is bringing the power of deduplication to hybrid and private cloud infrastructure. Let’s begin with the fundamentals and establish some definitions. Introduction to Data […]

March 30, 2018 • 6 min read Data

Keep Your Backup Appliances From Multiplying Like Rabbits

Keep Your Backup Appliances From Multiplying Like Rabbits

Your first backup appliance was great, but how did you feel about your fifth? Most backup appliances can’t scale to meet the capacity needs of a digital company. Learn about our partnership with StorReduce that enables primary backups to be stored directly on private or hybrid cloud, so you can retain your data at scale, at lower costs.

March 27, 2018 • 7 min read Data

Western Digital Named one of 50 Most Innovative IoT Companies

Western Digital Named one of 50 Most Innovative IoT Companies

We’re excited to share that Western Digital has been named among one of the 50 most innovative IoT companies by IoTInnovator.com. This list honors the “most cutting-edge companies dotting the IoT landscape” and is selected by IoT Innovator’s international editorial panel. One industry analyst predicts that by 2020 over 30 billion end point devices will be connected […]

March 26, 2018 • 3 min read Technology

Western Digital and What’s Hot at NAB 2018

Western Digital and What’s Hot at NAB 2018

360° cameras, drones, helicopters and even astronauts – 2017 NAB Show was incredible. So what's going to be hot at NAB 2018? Here's what you can expect from us in Las Vegas.

March 23, 2018 • 5 min read Data

Why Object Storage? A Short, Definitive Explanation

Why Object Storage? A Short, Definitive Explanation

If you're a systems engineer wondering why object storage, what is it good for, and why you would abandon an existing storage solution for an object store - Mike McWhorter has some answers for you.

March 19, 2018 • 8 min read Data

Top 7 Trends at Mobile World Congress 2018

Top 7 Trends at Mobile World Congress 2018

“5G”, “ecosystem”, “edge compute”, “NOW!” As I walked the halls of Mobile World Congress 2018, these were among the most common words vendors used to attract attention to their booths. (There were also some more surprising themes, like “the Internet of Cows” which I’ll explain…) But they all represent deeper messages and the top trends […]

March 16, 2018 • 6 min read Data

Western Digital Unveils New Addition: 8TB Ultrastar® DC HC320

Western Digital Unveils New Addition: 8TB Ultrastar® DC HC320

We are now shipping the latest product in our capacity enterprise HDD product line, the 8TB Ultrastar® DC HC320, providing a new high capacity point in our lower capacity lineup of air-based products. As part of the unification of our new Western Digital brand, the Ultrastar DC HC320 is being introduced under the Western Digital […]

March 15, 2018 • 3 min read Data

6 NVMe™ Features for Enterprise & Edge Storage

6 NVMe™ Features for Enterprise & Edge Storage

It’s not only performance that makes NVMe a game changer. NVMe also has some very innovative features that bring unique benefits to existing workloads and open possibilities for new applications. Here are 6 NVMe features you should be aware of.

March 13, 2018 • 6 min read Data