A Big Data Thanksgiving
Looking at Thanksgiving through a magnifying glass might tell you a lot about how our modern lives, and holidays, are data driven.
November 25, 2015 • 3 min read Data
Who Generates The Most Big Data?
What human activity will generate the most data in the future? Media? Financial analytics? The answer, it turns out, could be in our collective DNA. Where Big Data is Getting Much Bigger Human genomics is poised to become one of the largest, if not the largest, sources of new data over the next decade, said […]
September 10, 2015 • 4 min read Data
Better Together: Thoughts on Flash, Big Data and the Cloud as Fusion ioMemory Joins the SanDisk® Family
The combined knowledge and solutions of the Fusion-io and SanDisk teams is our greatest strength as we are powering millions of users around the world
November 4, 2014 • 6 min read Data
Big Data and Precision Medicine – Can We Quantify Human Health?
Will Big Data pave a new path to healthcare? We gathered the latest discussions on big data, precision medicine, and the dramatic changes in technology powering bioinformatics and healthcare.
June 7, 2017 • 2 min read Data
Five Hard Drive Technologies Making Big Data Possible
Hard drives have been around a long time and maybe because of that they don't seem to be as exciting as SSDs. Even after 60 years, though, hard drives are still advancing by great leaps. This is the first of a series of blogs detailing upcoming technologies that Western Digital is planning to deliver to customers to enable the next 60 years of hard drives. We’re going to look at technologies to allow hard drives to store more data, revolutionary hardware designs that dramatically improve hard drive performance, and advanced methods of enabling better use of those faster, denser hard drives in cloud data centers. But before we look to the future, let's review where we are today. Here are five technologies you might not know about but which are powering leading enterprise hard drives such as the 14TB Ultrastar DC HC530 and 15TB Ultrastar DC HS620 used in many cloud data centers today.
March 4, 2019 • 5 min read Data
2018 Data Trends – How Data Will Change
Data is changing. Big Data is getting faster; Fast Data is getting bigger. Our bloggers look at the dynamic landscape ahead, and share their insight into 2018 data trends.
January 11, 2018 • 8 min read People
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
Big Data Solutions
Learn about storage architectures that are solutions for the challenges of data at scale, including Ultrastar hard drives and OpenFlex NVMe-oF platforms.
April 9, 2020 • 2 min read Data
From Data Control to Regulations – 8 Ways to Make Data Work from DataWorks Summit
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
2018 Tech Trends – A 360 View on Data
As the volume, velocity, variety and value of data grow, so do the possibilities. We asked our blog authors, and industry experts across the company, to take out their crystal ball and shine light on the 2018 tech trends ahead.
December 27, 2017 • 11 min read People