Enterprise
A Balancing Act: HDDs and SSDs in Modern Data Centers
It’s true that flash storage is getting faster and more affordable, but hard drives (HDDs) continue to play a major role in the enterprise. Nowhere is this more apparent than in today’s data centers where the amount of data created continues to grow exponentially, fueled further by the AI Data Cycle. While consumers tend to […]
July 25, 2024 • 6 min read Data
What is the IoT Data Journey?
At CompuForum 2020, CheChung Lin shared the journey of IoT data and how to maximize its value through purpose-built data storage. Learn more here.
July 23, 2020 • 5 min read Technology
What is NVMe™ and why is it important? A Technical Guide
What is NVMe? In this blog we take a deep dive into the new protocol for accessing high-speed storage media and what you need to know for your business.
June 9, 2020 • 8 min read Data
Accelerate Your Enterprise with WD Gold NVMe SSDs
Add the power of NVMe to your enterprise with WD Gold NVMe SSDs to improve system responsiveness and boost productivity while lowering your overall TCO.
March 4, 2020 • 4 min read Data
3 Data Center Trends You Need to Know for the Zettabyte Age
Future data centers must be open to reach zettabyte scale. We explore the key data center trends of open composability, source, and standards.
December 23, 2019 • 8 min read Data
Go for WD Gold, Our Enterprise-Class HDDs
This post was updated on 7/8/2020 to reflect new 18 TB storage capacities, energy-assisted technology, and triple-stage actuator features. As data continues to grow, it adds complexities to the storage architecture of our customers. Whether data is generated from healthcare records, consumer habits, or financial transactions, reliable storage and quick access to the data in […]
September 24, 2019 • 3 min read Data
5 Reasons Enterprises are Finding it Hard to Adopt AI
Last year may have been AI’s biggest year. Yet its application in real-world use cases are still very far. Why are companies and enterprises struggling to adopt AI? We asked leading AI expert Yves Bergquist to explain the AI – enterprise bottleneck. Erik: How do you summarize what happened with AI in 2018? Yves: The […]
February 4, 2019 • 5 min read Technology
Accelerate Containerized Databases with Western Digital® SSDs and Red Hat® CNS
Software may have eaten the world but, thanks to DevOps’ focus on scalability and need for continuous deployment, containers are taking a bite of that software dominance. Containers are a way of packaging applications, or even individual services, in a way that makes them fast and easy to deploy for developers, while at the same […]
August 16, 2018 • 3 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
Deduplication in the Cloud – Getting the Most of Hybrid Cloud Workflows
The impact of deduplication on traditional storage efficiency was significant. Now deduplication is expanding to deliver those benefits to cloud environments. In this blog post I’ll look at how our new partnership is bringing the power of deduplication to hybrid and private cloud infrastructure. Let’s begin with the fundamentals and establish some definitions. Introduction to Data […]
March 30, 2018 • 6 min read Data