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Technology for Tomorrow’s Data: Samsung and Western Digital Collaborate to Kindle More Robust Data Storage Ecosystems
Proliferation of data requires greater storage efficiencies and value for managing data at scale. Samsung and Western Digital have partnered to help user in standardization.
April 19, 2022 • 6 min read Technology
Changing Course – The Journey to ZNS
Inventor Matias Bjorling and his journey to innovation with the Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) portion of the Zoned Storage initiative.
June 10, 2021 • 6 min read People
What the Industry is Doing About its Zetta-Scale Problem
The industry is pushing the boundaries of technology to keep up with data at zettabyte scale. A new meetup series looks at these new architectures.
November 17, 2020 • 6 min read Technology
ZNS SSDs Just Got Real – Ultrastar® DC ZN540 Now Sampling
Western Digital, today, announced it is sampling a new generation of SSDs to select customers – Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) SSDs, specifically the Ultrastar DC ZN540 ZNS NVMe™ SSD. Here’s why ZNS SSDs are pivotal in the evolution of data-centric architectures as we enter the zettabyte era, and some real-world application testing results. The advent of the cloud, […]
November 9, 2020 • 5 min read Data
Can LSM-Tree & Zoned Namespaces Bring Databases to QLC SSDs?
Adopting QLC SSDs requires addressing the questions of endurance. Here's one way to solve this through the storage engine and writing technology.
July 16, 2020 • 7 min read Data
NVMe™ Spec Ratification and New ZNS Milestones
ZNS SSDs and Zoned Storage have just achieved several significant milestones, including NVMe spec ratification. Here's a summary for data center architects and developers
June 17, 2020 • 5 min read Data
Zonefs File-System Will Land with Linux® 5.6
A monumental milestone, because landing a new file system in the kernel is one of the hardest things to do in Linux and it opens up a whole new world for developers who want to take advantage of zoned devices.
February 24, 2020 • 6 min read Data
4 Reasons You Should Be Excited at OCP Amsterdam
The open-source community is pushing forward new technology to make hardware more flexible, scalable, and efficient. As a leader in energy-conscious hardware design, we’re excited to participate in the Open Compute Project (OCP) Regional Summit, taking place in Amsterdam. This two-day event – tailored for hardware designers, data center architects, infrastructure engineers, and other technologists […]
September 25, 2019 • 3 min read Data
Entering the Zettabyte Age the “Write” Way
At Flash Memory Summit 2019, Dr. Siva Sivaram, president of technology and strategy, and Chris Bergey, senior vice president of devices, spoke about the biggest challenges we face amid exponential data growth and the foundational technologies needed to help organizations contend with the demands of the zettabyte age.
August 21, 2019 • 8 min read People
One Year Later… Dropbox Continues to Innovate with Western Digital
As new large-scale applications are developed, we have been working closely with our customers to optimize our storage device behavior to align more closely to application requirements.
July 30, 2019 • 8 min read Data