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From Edge to Core – the Portfolio You Need to See at VMworld

From Edge to Core – the Portfolio You Need to See at VMworld

The kids have just gone back to school, the days are starting to get shorter, and Las Vegas is sweltering along in the triple digits, so it must be time for VMworld® 2018! Western Digital, and our HGST, Tegile and SanDisk brands, have worked with VMware® and attended VMworld for many, many years now.  This […]

August 22, 2018 • 4 min read Data

Great Things Come in Threes at VMworld 2017

Great Things Come in Threes at VMworld 2017

From modernizing the data center to digital transformation and integrating the cloud, great things come in threes at VMworld 2017! Here's what you should get excited about in HGST booth #525.

August 18, 2017 • 7 min read Data

Where Your Data Center Needs to be_Tomorrow (Part II)

Where Your Data Center Needs to be_Tomorrow (Part II)

At VMworld in Barcelona, Western Digital will be announcing two new SSD certifications for high performance caching using Virtual SAN™. Learn how flash is enabling the VMware Cloud Foundation.

October 17, 2016 • 5 min read Data

Software-Defined, Flash Accelerated at VMworld Europe 2016

Software-Defined, Flash Accelerated at VMworld Europe 2016

VMworld Europe will be a great opportunity to learn about our latest system and infrastructure innovations that can help businesses contend with the demands of now. Here's an overview of our activities and speaking sessions.

October 14, 2016 • 5 min read Data

VMware® Whiz? Take Our Virtual SAN Quiz!

VMware® Whiz? Take Our Virtual SAN Quiz!

It’s no secret that we’re excited about Virtual SAN. We’ve been working with our partners and VMware to deliver certified all-flash and hybrid Virtual SAN Ready Nodes that have proven reference architectures for business critical applications like virtualized Microsoft® SQL Server® 2016 running on all-flash Virtual SAN. VMworld will be a great place to hear […]

August 25, 2016 • 1 min read Data

VMworld® Sneak Peek – Tegile Bets on Blue!

VMworld® Sneak Peek – Tegile Bets on Blue!

Ahead of VMworld, Dave Montgomery sat down with Tegile to learn more about the successes of IntelliFlash HD, see whether they'll be raffling an Audi again, and hear Rob Commins share his mom's best career advice.

August 24, 2016 • 2 min read Data

Optimizing Virtual SAN for Maximum Business Benefits

Optimizing Virtual SAN for Maximum Business Benefits

In the opening paragraph introducing my recent guest blog on VMware blogs, Michael Haag, Product Line Marketing Manager in the Storage and Availability Business Unit at VMware described SanDisk® as “one of our highly-valued partners on a number of initiatives, including Virtual SAN and vSphere APIs for IO Filtering (VAIO)”. In this blog I will […]

September 25, 2015 • 5 min read Data

VMworld US 2015: Something new and exciting is happening in VMware vSphere 6

VMworld US 2015: Something new and exciting is happening in VMware vSphere 6

VMware is expanding the platform’s SDS capabilities to incorporate and support third party software-based data services such as caching and replication. With our FlashSoft software, we take advantage of these capabilities to optimize storage I/O performance, while running as a data service that is deployed and managed by vSphere storage policies. It’s real-world software-defined storage that […]

August 10, 2015 • 5 min read Data