Fueling the next wave of AI innovation, Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) introduced a six-stage AI Data Cycle framework that defines the optimal storage mix for AI workloads at scale. This framework will help customers plan and develop advanced storage infrastructures to maximize their AI investments, improve efficiency, and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of their AI workflows.
Western Digital Introduces New AI Data Cycle Storage Framework to Help Customers Capture the Value of AI
Why Car Storage Depends on the Right Workload Analysis
In this sponsored post, Russell Ruben, director of automotive and emerging segment market, Western Digital, believes that as vehicle innovation continues over the next few years, driven by advances in sensors, 5G, AI, machine and deep learning and big data analytics, so must storage. Storage technology needs to keep up with the rapid pace of development as it becomes increasingly critical to support more and more demanding applications with mixed usages than ever before.
Samsung and Western Digital Form Zoned (Block) Storage Collaboration
Samsung Electronics and Western Digital today announced a collaboration around zoned storage, which is a form of block storage, focused on data placement, processing and fabrics (D2PF) technologies. Western Digital has said zone storage is designed for workloads with increasingly voluminous and complex data management needs, creating “block storage devices that have their address space […]
University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center, Western Digital Leverage AI and Big Data in Fight Against Breast Cancer
Western Digital today said it has partnered with the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center to provide the storage infrastructure for from mammography scans cancer detection. The center’s AI Precision Health Institute (AI-PHI) has deployed the company’s Ultrastar Data60 Hybrid Storage Platform with 720TB of hard disk drives (HDDs) in support of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep learning […]
Western Digital and Qumulo Partner on Capacity and Scale for IHME COVID-19 Health Analytics and Vaccine Roll Out
San Jose, Jan 26, 2021 – Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) announced today that the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), in partnership with Qumulo, specializing in file data management for hybrid cloud environments, is employing Western Digital’s Ultrastar DC HC550 18TB HDDs and Ultrastar DC SN640 NVMe SSDs for ongoing COVID-19 research and vaccine […]
Western Digital Expands Flash Portfolio for Scaling Data-Centric Architectures
SAN JOSE – Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) has announced a suite of NVMe SSDs for enabling data-centric architectures for data centers, industrial IoT, automotive and client applications. It includes the Ultrastar DC ZN540 ZNS NVMe SSD for designing a more efficient data center storage tier with competitive TCO; the Western Digital IX SN530 Industrial SSD for the extreme […]
LIqid Steps up with Composable Infrastructure at SC19
In this video from SC19, Sumit Puri from Liqid describes the company’s innovative composable infrastructure technology for HPC. “We don’t build servers statically. We build servers dynamically by taking software and reconfiguring servers on the fly to have any amount of storage, GPU, networking, or compute that the application layer requires. Our mission is to turn the data center from statically configured to dynamically configurable.”
DDN to acquire IntelliFlash Business Unit from Western Digital
Today DDN announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Western Digital Corp. that includes an agreement to acquire Western Digital’s IntelliFlash business. Additionally, the companies will expand their existing relationship through a mutual global strategic sourcing agreement. DDN and Western Digital are committed to executing a smooth transition for customers and key stakeholders.
Univa Powers Million-core Cluster on AWS for Western Digital
Today Univa announced that Western Digital is using the company’s Navops Launch and Univa Grid Engine cloud software for large-scale deployments on AWS. “This successful collaboration with Univa and AWS shows the extreme scale, power and agility of cloud-based HPC to help us run complex simulations for future storage architecture analysis and materials science explorations. Using AWS to easily shrink simulation time from 20 days to 8 hours allows Western Digital R&D teams to explore new designs and innovations at a pace un-imaginable just a short time ago.”
Realizing Exabyte-scale PM Centric Architectures and Memory Fabrics
Zvonimir Bandic from Western Digital gave this talk at the SNIA Persistent Memory Summit. “Much has been debated about would it take to scale a system to exabyte main memory with the right levels of latencies to address the world’s growing and diverse data needs. This presentation will explore legacy distributed system architectures based on traditional CPU and peripheral attachment of persistent memory, scaled out through the use of RDMA networking.”









