Zoned Storage
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 Happens After Moore’s Law?
Moore’s Law has run up against the law of physics. With the engine of technological progress running out of steam, computing technology is going to have to find radically different ways to scale.
February 23, 2021 • 8 min read Technology
Opening Doors to Open-Source Hardware, Software and Standards
From zoned storage to root-of-trust chips to shared memory pools, we're leading open-source innovation to drive new system architectures. Learn more here.
February 24, 2020 • 5 min read People
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
What is Zoned Storage and the Zoned Storage Initiative?
Zoned Storage is a new paradigm in storage motivated by the incredible explosion of data. This blog looks at what it is, how it's being adopted, SMR HDDs and Zoned Namespaces SSDs use cases, and the Zoned Storage Initiative.
June 14, 2019 • 8 min read Data
Enabling the Zettabyte Age
An ecosystem of hardware and software developers progress into the zettabyte age and drive the innovation needed for next generation data infrastructure.
June 11, 2019 • 6 min read Data