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Working with OSNEXUS to Make SDS Adoption Easy
Traditional storage arrays (feature-rich, powerful, and proprietary) have seen a revolution over the last decade with the dawn of Software-Defined Storage (SDS). I spoke with Western Digital partner Steven Umbehocker, CEO & Founder of OSNEXUS Corporation, to learn more about the state of SDS today, and how businesses and MSPs are taking advantage of SDS […]
November 16, 2020 • 6 min read Data

Reducing the Hidden Costs of Storage
How something as seemingly behind-the-scenes as a drive platform could help organizations reduce the hidden costs of storage.
July 8, 2020 • 5 min read Data

JBOD vs. RAID vs. Erasure Coding
We explain the difference between these configurations, and the value that JBOD and RAID stand to bring to the modern workload set.
September 4, 2019 • 7 min read Data

Data @ the Center of VMworld – What You Should See
VMworld 2019 is just around the corner! Here's what you should be on the lookout for at the show.
August 21, 2019 • 5 min read Data

Feeding the GPU Beast – How to Leverage NVMe™ for AI & ML Workloads
Following the launch of the new Ultrastar Serv24-4N, our four-node storage server that delivers extremely fast, dense and efficient NVMe storage, we asked our partners at Excelero to share their insights into how to best leverage NVMe for AI & ML workloads.
August 7, 2019 • 6 min read Technology

Top 3 Reasons to Pay Closer Attention to Storage Enclosures
Why are storage enclosures so important? Here are the top 3 reasons to pay closer attention.
July 2, 2019 • 4 min read Data

How a New Approach to Storage Server Cooling Can Save You Costs
Here's how our Silicon to Systems Design approach helped us think differently about the problem of server cooling and design a new solution.
May 29, 2019 • 5 min read Data

Your Data Infrastructure Deserves Better Storage Enclosures
Starting storage server design from the ground up allowed us to rethink a few design elements. Here's how we managed to reduce drive vibration by up to 63%.
February 13, 2019 • 5 min read Data

Why NVMe™ is the Key to SQL Server™ 2008 Migration
DataON, a Western Digital customer and partner, delivers Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions built to optimize the full stack of Windows Server Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC).
September 24, 2018 • 3 min read Data

Building an Open, Scalable Infrastructure for Geospatial Data
Keeping up with geospatial big data can be a daunting task, particularly when it comes to transforming and garnering value from it. Here’s how one international company built an open, scalable, and cost effective solution to help them unlock the power of geospatial data. What is Geospatial data? Geospatial data (or spatial data) is basically […]
August 1, 2018 • 4 min read Data