Western Digital Employees around the World Volunteer for Earth Day
Protecting our planet takes the collective effort of a global community of like-minded environmental advocates. To bring this vision to life, nearly 1 billion from around the world come together each year on Earth Day – the world’s largest civic-focused day of action1. This worldwide event began in 1970, as millions of citizens took to […]
April 22, 2019 • 3 min read People
Lucas Gilman, Adventure Photographer: Capturing the Extremes
Lucas Gilman lives on the edge. A world-renowned adventure photographer and filmmaker, he spends nearly 180 days a year traveling the globe. Whether he’s strapped to a helicopter filming surfers, hanging upside-down atop a waterfall to document a kayaker’s descent, or nearly kidnapped in the jungle, Gilman captures once-in-a-lifetime moments. “The things that I shoot […]
June 6, 2023 • 7 min read People
Can AI Authenticate Real Art?
Authenticity and uniqueness are the currency of the art world. A fake Van Gogh means nothing, but a real Renoir means everything. But, as with every creative pursuit, AI is situated to disrupt the art world, both past and present. AI, powered by curated data sets, is positioning itself as a tool to better understand […]
October 31, 2023 • 6 min read Technology
The Upside to the Windows 2003 Migration
Monumental hardware and software changes came to market after Windows 2003 started to gain commercial momentum. Organizations can now take advantage of technology that is more versatile, powerful and economical.
July 8, 2015 • 5 min read Data
2019 — The Year of NVMe™!
Why would you embrace any new technology- and when? Technologies change over time, so deciding when to implement new technology provides different benefits and risks. Ideally, you’ll invest in a platform that you can take advantage of as it continues to grow over time and gives you the longest economic cycle with the lowest costs. If you haven't put “consider NVMe” on your new year’s resolutions, this is why you should.
March 5, 2019 • 6 min read Data
RISC-V and Future Data Workloads
Learn how the role of data is changing in our lives, and find out why this makes alternative approaches to processing data important, by watching this short video discussion between Steffen Hellmold, VP of Corporate Strategy, and Martin Fink, CTO, as their conversation about RISC-V continues.
September 6, 2018 • 2 min read People
Working with OSNEXUS to Make SDS Adoption Easy
Traditional storage arrays (feature-rich, powerful, and proprietary) have seen a revolution over the last decade with the dawn of Software-Defined Storage (SDS). I spoke with Western Digital partner Steven Umbehocker, CEO & Founder of OSNEXUS Corporation, to learn more about the state of SDS today, and how businesses and MSPs are taking advantage of SDS […]
November 16, 2020 • 6 min read Data
M.2 SSD: The Form Factor of the Future, Today
Flash memory comes in all shapes and sizes thanks to the power of semiconductors and NAND wafers. This flexibility inspired many form factors, from flash drives to SD cards, to push storage forward. The M.2 SSD (pronounced m-dot-two) became one of the most prolific form factors on the market, thanks to its unparalleled speed and […]
November 15, 2022 • 6 min read Products
See Our Machine Learning Accelerator at Embedded World
At its booth at Embedded World 2019, Western Digital, in collaboration with Mipsology, will demonstrate a small form factor (SFF) machine learning accelerator prototype, optimized to enhance the performance and efficiency of data-centric machine-learning applications in data centers at the edge.
February 20, 2019 • 3 min read Technology
The Invention of the SD Card: When Tiny Storage Met Tech Giants
In 2014, at the National Medals of Science and National Medals of Technology and Innovation award ceremony, former President Barack Obama took a SanDisk SD card from his pocket and held it for the audience to see. The 512GB card was a gift from SanDisk’s former CEO, Eli Harari, who was awarded a medal that day. […]
September 29, 2022 • 8 min read Technology