Robotics Data: Harnessing a New Technology
Industries are embracing robots to assist in dirty, dangerous, and difficult jobs. Robotics data helps power this new development.
March 1, 2023 • 7 min read Data
How Creative Teams Are Unlocking the Benefits of the Cloud
Not long ago, filmmakers like David Zvi Levine had to wait for digital video footage to arrive at an editing studio by courier before he could begin the post-production process (editing). But with the evolution of the cloud, creatives like Levine are now able to collaborate remotely and in real time. Levine is a creative […]
February 23, 2023 • 7 min read Technology
Sabra Truesdale: Carving Her Own Path
Sabra Truesdale, associate general counsel for intellectual property, shares her unique career path and how she empowers women in tech.
February 14, 2023 • 5 min read People
Beyond the Stratosphere: Computing in Orbit
The new space age promises a not-so-distant future where humans explore and leverage space’s vast resources. But one doesn’t have to envision robots building data centers on the moon (check out Part I in this series) or the human colonization of Mars. Many space applications are more of an axiomatic evolution of what’s already happening […]
February 8, 2023 • 6 min read Technology
Building a Data Center on the Moon
If you haven’t been following the New Space Age closely, the next few decades may knock your socks off. Anticipated is a permanent presence on the moon, a commercial space station, private citizens traveling to orbit, space-based medical treatments, deep space travel, and a flurry of activity involving mining, producing, and exploiting space resources. No one can […]
February 2, 2023 • 5 min read Technology
Recharged: How Data Builds Better Batteries
Batteries are vital in the effort to electrify our economies. Collecting battery data improves batteries and fights climate change.
January 24, 2023 • 6 min read Technology
Project Apprentice: Developing Future Tech Leaders
Western Digital continues to innovate by training the next generation of tech leaders in its Product Leadership Development Program.
January 17, 2023 • 6 min read People
Calling All Plankton: Real-Time AI Goes Out to the Ocean
The ocean is in constant flux. Tides and currents swoosh and swirl in mercurial cycles, cascading nutrients and dispersing life through the vast waters. This dynamism makes the ocean so fascinating, but it also makes it difficult to study. Now scientists are finding new ways to explore the ocean’s lifecycle by leveraging advances in storage […]
January 10, 2023 • 12 min read Data
How UltraSMR Makes the Industry’s Highest Capacity Drives
Last May, Western Digital introduced its 26TB hard drive, the industry’s highest capacity drive available. It allows cloud-scale customers to achieve the ginormous capacities required for today’s massive data storage needs. The storage leader’s unceasing capacity gains are made possible by integrating multiple technology innovations. One such compilation is UltraSMR, which helped bring the 26TB […]
January 4, 2023 • 9 min read Technology
How Distinguished Engineer John Contreras Discovered an Unlikely Career Path
John Contreras, a distinguished engineer in Western Digital’s hard disk drive (HDD) CTO group, always knew he liked to build things, from electronic amplifiers and logic circuits to skateboard ramps. But he wouldn’t be the distinguished engineer he is today if not for influential high school math teachers and a fluke skateboarding accident resulting in […]
December 27, 2022 • 7 min read People