TCO


2019 Data Center Year in Review

2019 Data Center Year in Review

A year-end recap of digital use cases, vertical applications, and cloud architecture options for your perusal, matched with the key Western Digital product and technological announcements we made throughout the year.

December 16, 2019 • 8 min read Data

Scaling Redis™ Memory, Data Management and Operations

Scaling Redis™ Memory, Data Management and Operations

A quick overview on how Ultrastar® products can help reduce the costly problem of scaling Redis data sets, conduct critical Redis data management and operations, and provide some storage tidbits on Apache Hadoop®-as-a-Service when Redis is used as a frontend to Hadoop.‌

March 26, 2019 • 7 min read Data

Evaluating New Data Center Infrastructure? 5 Questions You Should Ask

Evaluating New Data Center Infrastructure? 5 Questions You Should Ask

Change is daunting. Organizations might realize they need an infrastructure makeover, but the process can seem overwhelming. How do you pick the “right” solution with the least disruption? Customer viewpoints offer critical insight when evaluating new data center infrastructure.‌

March 13, 2019 • 5 min read Data

Maximizing TCO Savings with High Capacity Hard Drives

Maximizing TCO Savings with High Capacity Hard Drives

Whether you’re building the next big hyperscale app or managing a 4-node cluster, reducing costs is key to scaling. Here are the key TCO Principals to help you maximize savings with high-capacity hard drives.

December 12, 2018 • 7 min read Data

Introducing Skyhawk™ NVMe-compliant SSDs from SanDisk® brand

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

The TCO Implications of SSD Endurance

The TCO Implications of SSD Endurance

When looking at SSD endurance, a solution that initially seems less costly may actually, over time, be more expensive. Here's how to avoid a costly investment.

April 9, 2015 • 6 min read Data