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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
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
Rethinking Machine Learning at Scale
Today’s common machine learning architecture is not elastic and efficient at scale. It’s inevitable that we will need to find ways to scale machine learning better. With more digitization and implementation increasing across different industries, the data size and the complexity of machine learning models will increase as the algorithms evolve. Memory scaling and resiliency would require compute scaling as well to offer a more efficient and flexible fit for scale out architectures.
March 21, 2019 • 8 min read Technology
Five Hard Drive Technologies Making Big Data Possible
Hard drives have been around a long time and maybe because of that they don't seem to be as exciting as SSDs. Even after 60 years, though, hard drives are still advancing by great leaps. This is the first of a series of blogs detailing upcoming technologies that Western Digital is planning to deliver to customers to enable the next 60 years of hard drives. We’re going to look at technologies to allow hard drives to store more data, revolutionary hardware designs that dramatically improve hard drive performance, and advanced methods of enabling better use of those faster, denser hard drives in cloud data centers. But before we look to the future, let's review where we are today. Here are five technologies you might not know about but which are powering leading enterprise hard drives such as the 14TB Ultrastar DC HC530 and 15TB Ultrastar DC HS620 used in many cloud data centers today.
March 4, 2019 • 5 min read Data
Reshaping the Cloud and Edge with NVMe™ Innovations
The dual goals of supporting data volume and speed are driving new storage architectures in cloud and edge data centers. Here’s how our latest NVMe innovations leverage unique in-house technology design to deliver capabilities otherwise not possible, and give customers more choice.
February 26, 2019 • 5 min read Data
Western Digital’s New Collaboration with UCSC on Genomics Sequencing Could Accelerate Results
This multi-year, joint research and development agreement with the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and Baskin School of Engineering supports a collaborative team in genomics and computer engineering who believe that moving computational capabilities closer to data storage will help speed up the process of identifying and treating cancer.
January 29, 2019 • 3 min read Data
The Ultrastar® Memory Drive – How Our Memory Extension Drive Works
Cloud architects, digital platform stakeholders, and the HPC user community may use the Ultrastar memory drive to scale memory pools for real-time analytics, scientific workloads, and addition memory-demanding workloads. In this blog, I will show you the step-by-step boot process for a Linux environment and the availability of Ultrastar memory drive “virtualized memory pools” for use by in-memory workloads.
December 21, 2018 • 4 min read Data
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
How Helium Powers Our New Generation of 14TB HDDs
Drive technology has advanced at an incredible cadence. From helium sealing to Two Dimensional Magnetic Recording, here are some of the scientific advancements that enable our latest generation of 14TB HDDs.
December 12, 2018 • 6 min read Data
In-Memory Computing at Scale? Look Beyond Physical DRAM
Western Digital announces its entry into the in-memory computing market with the Ultrastar DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive. This memory drive leverages Western Digital data infrastructure leadership and NVMe technology to augment physical DRAM by creating virtual memory pools.
November 12, 2018 • 5 min read Data