Data Center
An Insider’s View into the Future of Data Infrastructure
Storage Field Day #18 was a unique opportunity to get an insider’s view of the innovations that are driving the future of big data and fast data infrastructure. Our experts and fellows shared how we’re pushing the boundaries of physics in hard drives and new energy-assist formats, the science and technology behind our flash-based devices and systems and how we are accelerating a future of composable infrastructure by leveraging NVMe innovation.
March 1, 2019 • 4 min read People
Reshaping the Cloud and Edge with NVMe™ Innovations
The dual goals of supporting data volume and speed are driving new storage architectures in cloud and edge data centers. Here’s how our latest NVMe innovations leverage unique in-house technology design to deliver capabilities otherwise not possible, and give customers more choice.
February 26, 2019 • 5 min read Data
How Symbiotics Design™ Drives Platforms Innovation
A few weeks ago, Western Digital’s Data Center Systems (DCS) business unit announced several new systems and platform offerings and capabilities to help our customers more efficiently build, scale, and manage their workloads. These solutions are made possible by our unique Symbiotics Design approach; today I’d like to take a deeper look at our newest storage server offering […]
July 27, 2018 • 5 min read Data
Making Data Thrive with NVMe™
The data surges caused by today’s IoT devices or big e-commerce promotions do not have to take us down! Businesses need to rethink how data is captured, preserved, accessed and transformed. NVMe™ is one of the hottest topics for data center architectures in 2018, and one of great interest on this blog. We’ve shared a […]
May 25, 2018 • 3 min read Data
6 NVMe™ Features for Enterprise & Edge Storage
It’s not only performance that makes NVMe a game changer. NVMe also has some very innovative features that bring unique benefits to existing workloads and open possibilities for new applications. Here are 6 NVMe features you should be aware of.
March 13, 2018 • 6 min read Data
The Need for Energy-assisted Recording Technology
Providing energy-assistance with heat-assisted and microwave-assisted magnetic recording technologies. “MAMR has significant advantages over HAMR in the quest to bring lower cost, high-reliability storage to the data center.” Brendan Collins To expand capacities even further requires that the write head size be reduced, as well as the size of the magnetic grains that store bit […]
October 11, 2017 • 5 min read Data
Introducing Skyhawk™ NVMe-compliant SSDs from SanDisk® brand
Meet the Skyhawk NVMe-compliant PCIe SSDs from our SanDisk brand. Skyhawk PCIe SSDs are optimized to give customers the ideal balance of fast and consistent performance, cost-effect storage and Quality of Service (QoS) to address large, unstructured data center workloads for cloud environments.
February 7, 2017 • 4 min read Data