What’s New and What’s Hot at SMPTE 2017
One of media & entertainment's biggest tech conferences is right around the corner. Industry veteran, Erik Weaver, shares what's new and what's going to be hot at SMPTE 2017.
October 18, 2017 • 5 min read Data
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Leveraging Edge Storage for a Successful Cloud DVR Deployment
In previous blogs Nadav Neufeld described the role of Flash in Cloud DVR deployments in Connected Home use cases such as Pause Live TV. This blog digs deep into how data stored at the edge can greatly improve the user experience when adopting cloud DVR technology. The Value of High Endurance Flash The successful delivery […]
October 17, 2017 • 7 min read Data
Driving the Next Decade of Data Technology Innovations
Flash memory and capacity HDD will continue to coexist, with Western Digital well positioned across the full spectrum of opportunities. “We’re in a strong position to define the future of data-centric compute architectures.” — Mike Cordano As the scale of data continues to increase through Big Data and Fast Data demands, and the diversity of […]
October 11, 2017 • 1 min read Data
A Proven Leader – Our Track Record of Delivering on Innovation
With over 7000 patents in hard drive technology, we have the most powerful storage patent portfolio and are the undisputed units-shipped leader in HDDs. “We plan to deliver the first MAMR hard drive in 2019 to launch a new era.” — Brendan Collins Western Digital has a long, successful heritage in hard drive innovation having […]
October 11, 2017 • 1 min read Data
MAMR Breakthrough Exceeds Expectations
Breakthroughs delivering the reliability, manufacturability and affordability to address customer demands. “We broke conventional wisdom to break theoretical limits.” — Brendan Collins Both HAMR and MAMR present their own challenges. HAMR has reliability issues due to the extreme heat utilized in the process and requires several complex and costly changes to drive infrastructure, among other […]
October 11, 2017 • 2 min read Data
The Need for Energy-assisted Recording Technology
Providing energy-assistance with heat-assisted and microwave-assisted magnetic recording technologies. “MAMR has significant advantages over HAMR in the quest to bring lower cost, high-reliability storage to the data center.” Brendan Collins To expand capacities even further requires that the write head size be reduced, as well as the size of the magnetic grains that store bit […]
October 11, 2017 • 5 min read Data
Foundational Technologies to Achieve Growth in $/TB Value for Capacity HDD
Helium-sealed technology is just one of three essential pillars that support higher track density. “We have made deliberate and substantial investments in both Damascene and micro-actuation for the past five-plus years to push the limits of areal density.” — Brendan Collins Western Digital has existing technologies that provide the foundation to support increased TPI. The […]
October 11, 2017 • 5 min read Data
Big Data and Fast Data Create a Bifurcation of Technology
As the scale of data continues to increase, and the diversity of application workloads expand, the world will need new data storage technologies and architectures. “We needed to rethink how data is captured, preserved, accessed and transformed.” — Mike Cordano Data is now used in a variety of ways and these different ways create unique […]
October 11, 2017 • 2 min read Data
The Big 5: Questions on the Future of AI and Data Science with Yves Bergquist
Data scientist Yves Bergquist answers five questions about the future of AI, its relationship to the media industry and the role of data.
October 9, 2017 • 5 min read Technology
The Intelligence of Things – A View from the Edge
Artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are converging to create "The Intelligence of Things". Western Digital’s Chris Bergey, VP, Embedded Solutions, sees AI in action at the edge today. Read on for a reality check of where AI and IoT are today and the critical role data will play to reach this intersection of AI and IoT.
October 4, 2017 • 7 min read Technology