It Takes Two: Why Digital Twins Need Both Humans and Machines
When Western Digital expanded its hard drive manufacturing site in Thailand, the first time the assembly lines were turned on wasn’t on the factory floor; it was on a laptop 8,000 miles away. Before any physical machinery found its place within the newly constructed walls, teams of engineers meticulously crafted its virtual counterpart. This digital […]
September 19, 2023 • 8 min read Technology
152,000 New Internet Devices Every Minute: IDC Outlines The ‘Smart’ Future
The Internet of Things is growing faster than you probably think. By 2025, approximately 80 billion devices will be connected to the Internet, according to Vernon Turner, senior vice president of enterprise systems at IDC, speaking at the IDC Directions conference in San Jose this week. To put that in perspective, approximately 11 billion devices […]
March 7, 2016 • 4 min read Technology
SCinet’19 – Making the Impossible Possible
Western Digital and Pavilion Data Systems are providing the high-performance storage infrastructure with NVMe™ and NVMe-over-Fabrics storage for the SCinet network and its participants.
November 7, 2019 • 3 min read Data
What Are Encrypted Drives?
Device encryption provides drive security for stored data. Available in devices from encrypted hard drives to encrypted flash drives, encryption can help shield your valuable data. This is encrypted drives, explained. What is an encrypted drive? An encrypted drive is a device such as a hard drive (HDD), SSD, or USB flash drive that automatically […]
November 14, 2023 • 3 min read Technology
NVMe™ Spec Ratification and New ZNS Milestones
ZNS SSDs and Zoned Storage have just achieved several significant milestones, including NVMe spec ratification. Here's a summary for data center architects and developers
June 17, 2020 • 5 min read Data
NVMe-oF Full Speed Ahead
As users expect fast response times from increasingly massive amounts of data, data center architects at cloud service providers and OEMs are furthering their investment in NVMe™ and NVMe-oF™ into their IT infrastructures. Western Digital launched its next step in NVMe and NVMe-oF with enhanced versions of its OpenFlex™ Data24 NVMe-oF storage platform, next-generation RapidFlex […]
August 8, 2023 • 6 min read Products
SanDisk® at Microsoft WPC – Helping Partners Enable the Flash-Transformed Data Center
See the value SanDisk flash products bring to Microsoft Data Center solutions, and how channel partners can flash-optimize and transform customers' data centers
July 8, 2015 • 3 min read Data
WD Red NAS SSDs Boost NAS Performance in Home and Work Offices
Our WD Red NAS SATA SSD gives a huge boost to NAS SOHO applications. These drives are designed specifically for caching through tiered data storage. If a low number of writes and non-continuous sustained performance is needed, however, full flash applications are feasible.
January 23, 2020 • 6 min read Data
Have a Heaping Helping of 12TB storage!
Western Digital satisfies the insatiable appetite for data with He12! Introducing the world’s highest capacity hard disk drive. Storing a massive 12,000,000,000,000 bytes of data, it’s built for a data, data, data world.
December 6, 2016 • 3 min read Data
SQL Server 2005: How To Give It Up And Thrive
The migration off SQL Server 2005 can present you with challenges, but it is actually a great opportunity to save money and deploy a more efficient, economical database solution. Jason Pederson shares how.
October 29, 2015 • 6 min read Data