Our Helium-Sealed Technology Awarded Prestigious JSME Medal and on Display in Tokyo Museum
Our helium-sealed technology has proved to be fundamental in developing high capacity hard disk drives. With more than 18 million drives leveraging this award-winning technology, our engineers won the prestigious JSME medal and showcased our innovation at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo.
August 10, 2017 • 4 min read Data
Open in Seattle: SanDisk® at LinuxCon North America
When you think of the big changes and disruptors in the new data center of today and tomorrow, Open Source software and Flash storage are two major forces that come to mind. What better place to bring the two together than at the Linux Conference for North America. It is one of the best places […]
August 12, 2015 • 4 min read Data
Edge Computing is Reshaping the Cloud
We’re starting to see the rise of a new computing model called edge computing. The basic idea behind edge computing is to take some of the power of cloud computing and bring it closer to our devices that are located near the end, or edge, of the network. But cloud computing isn't going away — far from it.
June 13, 2018 • 7 min read Data
The Emergence of Software-Defined Memory – Accelerating Applications in the World of Flash, DRAM and Persistent Memory
In the past several years our industry has seen the emergence of the “Software-Defined” concept. Where previously resource management, policy, and data management were embedded within hardware products, both Software-Defined Networking and Software-Defined Storage advocated for policies of management to be separated from the hardware components themselves, enabling software to then coordinate access to a […]
October 1, 2014 • 3 min read Data
From Flash to Fabric – Where the Data Center is Headed
By 2025, most data centers will likely have adopted NVMe-based fabric (NVMe-oF) for some parts of their architecture — Here’s how you get from flash to fabric.
July 17, 2019 • 5 min read Data
From Edge to Core – the Portfolio You Need to See at VMworld
The kids have just gone back to school, the days are starting to get shorter, and Las Vegas is sweltering along in the triple digits, so it must be time for VMworld® 2018! Western Digital, and our HGST, Tegile and SanDisk brands, have worked with VMware® and attended VMworld for many, many years now. This […]
August 22, 2018 • 4 min read Data
Business Critical Applications on VMware Virtual SAN: Extrapolating 48 Million NOPM!
Hello! It’s been a while since I’ve shared my last blog, mostly as I have been so busy working with different OEM partners on enabling VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) solutions. VMworld 2015 US is around the corner, taking place next week! My colleague, Beth Caltagirone, has written a nice blog elaborating on SanDisk®’s broad presence […]
August 27, 2015 • 3 min read Data
Forget TCO. It’s all about TCA.
I’ve been in the IT industry for multiple decades now, and the mantra I have heard along my path from my MBA professors, from my colleagues, from competitors and industry consultants is that Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is the most important aspect of evaluating a purchase. TCO goes beyond the outlay and really embraces […]
September 4, 2014 • 4 min read Data
Explained: HDD Areal Density
Have you ever wondered how hard drives manage to store vast amounts of data in such a small space? In part, this is made possible by areal density—the driving factor in HDD capacity. This is areal density, explained. What is areal density? Areal density is the amount of data that can be stored per square […]
October 10, 2023 • 3 min read Technology
Western Digital Media & Entertainment Executive Council
Sunday night wrapped up this year’s Sundance Festival in Utah, and we were there talking with key executives and IT stakeholders behind the scenes of the media & entertainment industry. It’s not by chance we chose Sundance as the location for the first meeting of our Media & Entertainment Executive Council. We have been working […]
January 31, 2018 • 3 min read Data