Big Data


Introducing the New WesternDigital.com

Introducing the New WesternDigital.com

This morning we launched a fully redesigned westerndigital.com—and it’s more than a visual makeover. This new site truly reflects who Western Digital is today. If you have been witness to Western Digital for the past six years, you might be familiar with our journey. We have made some notable acquisitions with HGST, SanDisk and Tegile. […]

November 12, 2018 • 3 min read People

Top 5 Surveillance Industry Trends from IFSEC International

Top 5 Surveillance Industry Trends from IFSEC International

A few weeks ago our team traveled to London to join the 600+ exhibitors and over 27,000 security professionals at IFSEC International. In addition to launching the industry’s highest capacity, deep-learning-capable, surveillance-class drive, Western Digital® Purple 12TB drive, I was able to walk the show floor. Here are the top 5 surveillance industry trends and takeaways for […]

July 13, 2018 • 8 min read Data

What is Symbiotics Design™?

What is Symbiotics Design™?

The Symbiotics Design™ approach is an integrated approach to our complete technology portfolio, allowing us to create increasingly specialized environments for data to thrive, whether it’s the immediate results from Fast Data or the breakthrough insights and precision from Big Data. Our products and solutions are purpose-built, tuned and optimized for a full range of data-centric applications.

June 28, 2018 • 4 min read Data

Step Into the Office of the CTO

Step Into the Office of the CTO

How can we help create value from data? Since a large percentage of the world’s data lives on our products, we believe that Western Digital is in a unique position to drive innovation around data. We look forward to sharing the excitement of our activities.

June 27, 2018 • 2 min read People

Looking for Love in All the Online Places

Looking for Love in All the Online Places

For Valentine’s Day, we’re taking a look at the question on the minds of at least a million single folks around the world: Can data help me find love? Online dating websites have monetized the idea of finding true love for over 15 years now, and some of them have been very successful – financially […]

February 13, 2018 • 3 min read Data

Driving the Next Decade of Data Technology Innovations

Driving the Next Decade of Data Technology Innovations

Flash memory and capacity HDD will continue to coexist, with Western Digital well positioned across the full spectrum of opportunities. “We’re in a strong position to define the future of data-centric compute architectures.” — Mike Cordano As the scale of data continues to increase through Big Data and Fast Data demands, and the diversity of […]

October 11, 2017 • 1 min read Data

Big Data and Fast Data Create a Bifurcation of Technology

Big Data and Fast Data Create a Bifurcation of Technology

As the scale of data continues to increase, and the diversity of application workloads expand, the world will need new data storage technologies and architectures. “We needed to rethink how data is captured, preserved, accessed and transformed.” — Mike Cordano Data is now used in a variety of ways and these different ways create unique […]

October 11, 2017 • 2 min read Data

Big Data in the Driver’s Seat: Motorsports Winning with SSDs

Big Data in the Driver’s Seat: Motorsports Winning with SSDs

“We use SSDs because we want the win.” Joe Foley, CTO, Joe Gibbs Racing In the world of motorsports, the margin of victory is often measured in milliseconds. In 2002, the smallest winning margin in Formula 1 was witnessed at the United States Grand Prix victory of Rubens Barichello over Michael Schumacher by 0.011 seconds. […]

October 12, 2016 • 2 min read Data