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Inside CERN’s Exabyte Data Center
Image of LHC tunnel during LS2n by Brice, M. courtesy of CERN Tucked beneath the countryside on the outskirts of Geneva lies the world’s largest and most powerful particle-smashing machine: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Run by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the LHC probes the universe’s origins by recreating the conditions that existed just […]
April 30, 2024 • 7 min read Technology
NVMe-oF Full Speed Ahead
As users expect fast response times from increasingly massive amounts of data, data center architects at cloud service providers and OEMs are furthering their investment in NVMe™ and NVMe-oF™ into their IT infrastructures. Western Digital launched its next step in NVMe and NVMe-oF with enhanced versions of its OpenFlex™ Data24 NVMe-oF storage platform, next-generation RapidFlex […]
August 8, 2023 • 6 min read Products
Calling All Plankton: Real-Time AI Goes Out to the Ocean
The ocean is in constant flux. Tides and currents swoosh and swirl in mercurial cycles, cascading nutrients and dispersing life through the vast waters. This dynamism makes the ocean so fascinating, but it also makes it difficult to study. Now scientists are finding new ways to explore the ocean’s lifecycle by leveraging advances in storage […]
January 10, 2023 • 12 min read Data
The Magnetic Attraction of ePMR
In conducting research and development toward other energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) technologies, Western Digital engineers discovered a way to significantly increase HDD capacity using ePMR, or energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording.
August 19, 2021 • 7 min read Products
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
5 Reasons it’s Time to Consider NVMe-oF™ Today
End-to-end NVMe is likely in your future, but when and how do you take the next step? Here are five reasons to start the transition now.
June 24, 2020 • 5 min read Data
SCinet’19 – Making the Impossible Possible
Western Digital and Pavilion Data Systems are providing the high-performance storage infrastructure with NVMe™ and NVMe-over-Fabrics storage for the SCinet network and its participants.
November 7, 2019 • 3 min read Data
SAS Lives On and Here’s Why
The Ultrastar DC SS540 SAS SSDs are our 6th generation of SAS SSDs and are the ideal drives for all-flash arrays, caching tiers, HPC and SDS environments.
November 4, 2019 • 3 min read Data
5 Data Center Trends Driving the Next Generation of NVMe™ SSDs
Emerging technologies are dependent on massive data streams. Here are 5 key trends driving the next generation of NVMe SSDs in data centers and the cloud.
August 5, 2019 • 8 min read Data
The Ultrastar DC HC300 Family Just Got a 10TB HDD Boost
Our R&D teams are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for HDDs while continuing to drive lower $/TB - get to know the Ultrastar® DC HC330 10TB HDD.
July 18, 2019 • 4 min read Data