Enterprise
Keep Your Backup Appliances From Multiplying Like Rabbits
Your first backup appliance was great, but how did you feel about your fifth? Most backup appliances can’t scale to meet the capacity needs of a digital company. Learn about our partnership with StorReduce that enables primary backups to be stored directly on private or hybrid cloud, so you can retain your data at scale, at lower costs.
March 27, 2018 • 7 min read Data
Western Digital Unveils New Addition: 8TB Ultrastar® DC HC320
We are now shipping the latest product in our capacity enterprise HDD product line, the 8TB Ultrastar® DC HC320, providing a new high capacity point in our lower capacity lineup of air-based products. As part of the unification of our new Western Digital brand, the Ultrastar DC HC320 is being introduced under the Western Digital […]
March 15, 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
Enabling Data to Thrive in Content Delivery Networks
Today, Western Digital introduced a purpose-built SATA SSD for read-intensive workloads, typical in environments like content delivery networks (CDNs). But before I share some product specifics, let’s take a quick look at what CDNs make possible. Several exciting, major sporting events are set to take place in 2018 that will captivate audiences across the globe. […]
January 31, 2018 • 4 min read Data
Backup to Object Storage? It’s faster (and cheaper) than you think
To compete in today’s market, the TCO of an object storage system for long term data retention needs to be in the same ballpark OR LESS than tape. See how you can build a backup to object storage private cloud solution that's 52% lower TCO!
January 29, 2018 • 4 min read Data
Optimizing Your Storage Spaces Direct Configuration
In this blog series, Peter Plamondon will be sharing helpful, broad guidelines on how to optimize your Storage Spaces Direct configuration and avoid common pitfalls.
January 26, 2018 • 5 min read Data
Ultrastar® 7K6: More Data, Fewer Disks
Western Digital eliminates platters to deliver better value! Even with Western Digital’s advancements in the SSD business, we remain committed to the value we can deliver with drives based on spinning media. Our latest enterprise-class hard disk drive (HDD), the Ultrastar 7K6, leverages improved areal density to provide the same capacity as the previous generation […]
January 10, 2018 • 3 min read Data
NVMe™ and Data Warehouse Workloads – is it Ready to Dominate?
Abandoning the decades-old SAS and SATA software protocol stacks, NVMe is the new kid on the block. Will it dominate the data warehouse workload space?
September 22, 2017 • 5 min read Data
HDDs vs. SSDs – What’s Ahead in the Evolution of Storage?
HDDs vs. SSDs - will any device lead the data storage space? Here’s a look at where we are and what’s awaiting us.
August 22, 2017 • 8 min read Data