Additional Resources The Future of IP Networking – Time for Radical Change
Open Everything: Driving Open Standards and Open Source at Western Digital
Richard New, Ph.D., Vice President of Research, discusses Western Digital’s approach to open standards and open source. Since storage performance and TCO are increasingly determined by system design, Western Digital is working with other companies and projects to drive open standards. The company is working to implement Zoned Storage in the Linux storage software stack, […]
Western Digital Open Composability Accelerates the Future of Data Infrastructure
Scott Hamilton, Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing, Data Center Platforms Business Unit, discusses the need for open composability in future enterprise IT infrastructure. As we near zettabyte scale, shared-nothing models strand resources, lack of agility leads to SKU explosion, and new use cases move GPUs to the data. Composable infrastructure is the answer, […]
Enabling New Markets Through Flash Storage Innovation with Western Digital
Luca Fasoli, Ph.D., Vice President, Memory Product Solutions, discusses Western Digital’s continuing innovation in flash storage technology. Demand for flash storage capacity is driving scale, with 23% CAGR expected from 2018 through 2023. Meeting this demand requires vertical scaling, lateral scaling through process innovations, and logical scaling to increase bits per cell. Each of these […]
Continuing Hard Disk Drive Innovation from Western Digital
Carl Che, Ph.D., Vice President, HDD Technology, discusses Western Digital’s continuous innovation in hard disk drive technology. The company is driving capacity and efficiency with mechanical innovation, new firmware and features, and increases in areal density. Energy-assisted recording technologies are emerging, including ePMR, MAMR, and HAMR, enabling capacity to 50 TB and beyond. New suspension […]
Western Digital Innovation Through Zoned Storage
Swapna Yasarapu, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Data Center Business Unit, presents Western Digital’s approach to intelligently placing data with zoned storage. This includes both SMR for hard disk drives and ZNS for SSDs and is based on industry standards.
Solving the Data Dilemma with Data Center HDDs from Western Digital
Phil Bullinger, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Business Unit, discusses Western Digital’s approach to enable zettabyte scale data. There is an enormous business opportunity to support digital data at scale, especially when it comes to IoT data. If TCO drives data center decisions, technologies that reduce overall costs can affect more than […]
Enabling Automotive, Mobile, and Emerging End Points with Western Digital
Huibert Verhoeven, Senior Vice President, Automotive, Mobile, and Emerging (AME) at Western Digital presents new use end point demands for storage. Data is exploding in automotive, mobile, and IoT/Industrial environments and diversified storage solutions are needed. With 5G enabling literally billions of devices to be. connected in coming years, new challenges appear. One critical element […]
Next-Level Gaming with Western Digital Black Performance-Driven NVMe SSDs
Eric Spanneut, Vice President, Client Computing, presents Western Digital’s Black series NVMe SSDs. He talks about extreme NVMe storage, purpose-built for the performance and capacity demands of the growing gaming market. He is joined by Leah Schoeb, Senior Development Manager for AMD, who points out the factors driving extreme storage performance demand.
50 Years of HDD and Flash Innovation from Western Digital
Yusuf Jamal, Senior Vice President, Devices and Platforms, introduces Western Digital’s presentation at Storage Field Day 19. He gives a retrospective look at 50 years of HDD and flash storage innovation from the company, and how this is enabling the transformation and value of data from edge to core in the zettabyte age.
The Impact of 5G and Edge Computing on Smart Video Recording with Western Digital
Stefaan Vervaet, Senior Director, Smart Video Segment, Client Computing at Western Digital, presents the impact of 5G and edge computing on smart video. He begins by presenting the growth of video data worldwide, with 120 million cameras generating 37 exabytes of data in 2019. Western Digital positions the purple series of storage media to address […]
NetApp StorageGRID – Object Storage for What’s Next
– Evolution of Object Storage – StorageGRID Architecture – Create your Data Fabric
NetApp Active IQ Platform Architecture
How the hybrid-cloud architecture powering Active IQ allows NetApp to innovate and scale while driving down costs.
NetApp AIOps
How NetApp continues to innovate using AIOps to realize the goal of automated infrastructure.
NetApp The New Active IQ Experience Demo
A demonstration of the new Active IQ experience covering three personas. 1 IT Director 2 Solution Architect 3 IT Generalist
NetApp Introduction to Active IQ
Active IQ, a digital advisor that uses AIOps to simplify the care and optimization of NetApp environments.
