What Does Helium Have to Do with the Black Hole Image?
In 2015, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project shared they would be using our (then HGST branded) Ultrastar® HelioSeal® hard disk drives (HDDs) to store the captured imaging data for the supermassive black hole.
April 11, 2019 • 5 min read Data
Does Storage break Moore’s Law?
Over the years an exponential gap has grown between the advancements of CPU and memory, and what storage can handle. Hard drive performance is the laggard by simply being too slow.
July 22, 2014 • 5 min read Data
How Symbiotics Design™ Drives Platforms Innovation
A few weeks ago, Western Digital’s Data Center Systems (DCS) business unit announced several new systems and platform offerings and capabilities to help our customers more efficiently build, scale, and manage their workloads. These solutions are made possible by our unique Symbiotics Design approach; today I’d like to take a deeper look at our newest storage server offering […]
July 27, 2018 • 5 min read Data
The Data that Saved our Lives
Helping others is a longstanding tradition of Thanksgiving. Here are four examples of how data can bring about a positive change when we harness it for good. Data. Some say it’s the new currency, economy or even oil. One thing is certain, data has changed our world and it is a rising force with boundless […]
November 20, 2018 • 3 min read Data
The Ultrastar DC HC300 Family Just Got a 10TB HDD Boost
Our R&D teams are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for HDDs while continuing to drive lower $/TB - get to know the Ultrastar® DC HC330 10TB HDD.
July 18, 2019 • 4 min read Data
What’s the Future of Tech Devices? A Look Back at 2017 and Ahead to 2018
Tracking the developments in tech devices is a fun, but often exhausting, exercise. Changes happen so rapidly that it’s hard for anybody to know them all— even if, like me, that’s essentially your job. But the effort required to dig in and discover all the amazing new capabilities of cool new tech gadgets, apps and […]
November 15, 2017 • 6 min read Data
SanDisk® is Cloudera Certified! Hadoop with Confidence
Within our SanDisk® labs, I conducted a number of experiments with Apache Hadoop and SanDisk flash, mainly our CloudSpeed Ascend SATA Solid State Drives (SSDs). The initial experiments were with standard Hadoop benchmarks, namely the Terasort and the TestDFSIO benchmarks. These benchmarks helped show me how SanDisk SSDs helped boost the performance of the Terasort […]
November 10, 2014 • 3 min read Data
What’s Enabling IIoT Surveillance at the Edge?
The surveillance industry has changed. Surveillance has gone mobile with edge devices and mesh networks. No longer are surveillance cameras fixed in one place. They are now increasingly deployed on moving devices. Drones circle miles of agriculture fields. Law enforcement agencies equip their police officers with body-worn cameras. Surveillance reports state for 2017, 98 million […]
June 19, 2017 • 4 min read Technology
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