Ultrastar
15TB HDD – Taking Big Data Capacity to the Next Level
Western Digital announces our 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 Host-Managed SMR HDD. This technological achievement in Western Digital’s Ultrastar shingled magnetic recording and helium-sealed enterprise-class HDD provides the continued basis for rack-scale data growth expansion and improved TCO, helping to tackle critical challenges of big data growth.
October 24, 2018 • 7 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
The Tech Enabling the MMO Gaming Experience
MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) Gaming is big business. In 2017, an estimated $30 billion USD was spent on MMO gaming. That number is projected to grow even further. Players located across the globe simultaneously interact with these MMO games, including Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs). Using their own computers, players access these games via their Internet […]
September 11, 2018 • 5 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
How Symbiotics Design™ Drives Platforms Innovation
A few weeks ago, Western Digital’s Data Center Systems (DCS) business unit announced several new systems and platform offerings and capabilities to help our customers more efficiently build, scale, and manage their workloads. These solutions are made possible by our unique Symbiotics Design approach; today I’d like to take a deeper look at our newest storage server offering […]
July 27, 2018 • 5 min read Data
Scale with Confidence: Ultrastar DC SS530 SAS SSDs
Western Digital is excited to announce the new Ultrastar® DC SS530 SAS SSD, our company’s highest-density drive and the fastest dual-port SAS SSD on the market. The Ultrastar DC SS530 doubles the maximum capacity compared to the prior-generation SAS SSD to a whopping 15.36TB1. Its performance sets new industry records among SAS SSDs with up […]
July 25, 2018 • 5 min read Data
SQL Server™ 2017 on Linux® – 3TB TPC-H World Record!
A New Benchmark With Real Business Impact Using SQL Server 2017 on Linux and the Power of NVMe™. Another TPC-H Benchmark™ with SQL Server 2017 on Linux by Western Digital? Yes! Today we are pleased to announce that Western Digital and Cisco set the first 3,000GB world record using a two-socket server and the first […]
July 12, 2018 • 5 min read Data
Making Host Managed SMR Work for You – Dropbox’s Successful Journey
Organizations are looking for new, cost-effective mass storage solutions to help them contend with the onslaught of data. Innovations such as helium-sealed drives take advantage of lower internal atmospheric density to enable additional, thinner disks for higher capacities, while Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) hard drives overlap data tracks to achieve greater storage density. The first […]
June 12, 2018 • 5 min read Data
Choosing the Right All-Flash Storage Spaces Direct Configuration
Don’t put a Go Kart engine in your race car! Part II of this blog series looks at initial testing results and how they can help you to choose the right Storage Spaces Direct configuration for virtualized workloads. Software-defined storage solutions can provide many benefits, but they can’t overcome running a workload on the wrong […]
May 14, 2018 • 7 min read Data
New Record-Breaking SQL Server Data Warehouse Fast Track Solutions
The new, record-breaking performance and capacity of our SQL Server Data Warehouse Fast Track solutions with HPE can help you to harness the power of data and transform your business. Learn how the Microsoft-validated, pre-configured solutions can support the most demanding data warehouse workloads to deliver faster insights for the most massive data warehouses or large database consolidation project.
May 1, 2018 • 3 min read Data