COVID to the Cloud—Can you Handle Me?
With social distancing measures in place, cloud usage has been soaring. But can the cloud handle the demand of the pandemic?
October 19, 2020 • 9 min read Data
The Ultrastar® SS300 – Our Highest-Performing SAS SSD to Date
The Ultrastar® SS300 is the newest generation of our popular SAS SSD, integrating advanced controller technology with 3D NAND to power the most challenging workloads with greater efficiency.
May 16, 2017 • 3 min read Data
Optimizing Your Storage Spaces Direct Configuration
In this blog series, Peter Plamondon will be sharing helpful, broad guidelines on how to optimize your Storage Spaces Direct configuration and avoid common pitfalls.
January 26, 2018 • 5 min read Data
Tips to Best Prepare Against Ransomware Attacks
Today, ransomware is evolving into an global epidemic threat. Welcome our guest blogger Jim Crook, Senior Product Marketing Manager at CTERA, as he shares different preventive measures you can take to best prepare for a ransomware attack.
February 15, 2017 • 4 min read Data
Black Holes: Photographing the Universe’s Greatest Mystery
Since 2015, Western Digital has been supporting the Event Horizon Telescope, a groundbreaking virtual telescope observing and imaging black holes. Almost every image we’ve seen of a black hole isn’t an image at all. It is an illustration of what we think black holes look like, based on mathematical theory and fairly recent evidence that […]
August 2, 2022 • 8 min read Data
Storage at the Edge of Surveillance
The number of connected devices is expected to grow exponentially over the coming years. Some of these devices generate small bursts of data, but others produce a large stream of sequential data. As more IoT devices connect to the network, it’s becoming clear that without significant investments, the existing infrastructure cannot support the rapid growth […]
April 4, 2017 • 3 min read Data
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
Prepare for the Technology Refresh – Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 End-of-Life (EOL)
Microsoft’s announcement of an end-of-life (EOL) status for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 (WS03) operating system by July, 2015 marks the end of an industry era. It means that WS03 – which was a stepping stone between Windows NT Server 4.0 and more modern versions of Windows for 32-bit and 64-bit servers – will no […]
November 5, 2014 • 6 min read Data
The Cloud Architect’s Survival Guide
Cloud architects looking to transform their organizations should look at how top cloud providers support a range of workloads, use cases, and I/O patterns. Here are 5 challenges to building cloud services, and how to survive them.
May 11, 2016 • 5 min read Data
Think Big! Why Flash Isn’t (Just) About Performance
If you think flash storage is just about performance, you're missing the bigger picture. Chief Hardware Architect, Adam Roberts, looks at where flash can make the biggest impact for your architecture and bottom line.
June 13, 2016 • 7 min read Data