Increased demand for its embedded and branded flash-based products and solid-state drives (SSDs) helped carry storage solutions firm Western Digital to a solid fiscal first quarter... More
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Revenue, Profits Rise for Western Digital (MESA)
Western Digital President, COO Cordano on Importance of Investing in Hard-Drive, Flash Technology (CRN)
Michael Cordano: "For big data in general, the place where that’s growing the fastest is the hyper-scale community. But we do see on-prem use cases and applications expanding and... More
Western Digital Aims Largest Hard Drive Ever at World’s Largest Data Centers (DCK)
Western Digital says it has built the world’s first 14TB hard drive, but the product is targeted at a specific audience: operators of hyper-scale clouds, hosted in some of the wo... More
Western Digital Starts Shipping the World’s First 14TB Hard Drive (Tech Spot)
Many component manufacturers compete to see who can release the fastest/smallest/largest technologies first, and the hard drive industry is no different. In January, Seagate announ... More
Western Digital Introduces ActiveScale, Facilitating a Data Forever Architecture (HITS)
Western Digital announced the introduction of new features with its ActiveScale object storage 5.1 Release that facilitates a data forever architecture. Companies looking to increa... More
G-Technology Empowers Photographers to Create Big, Save Time (MESA)
Western Digital today announced the new G-Technology® brand G-DRIVE® mobile SSD R-Series device, the fastest G-Technology portable SSD. With the latest-generation USB-C™ connec... More
Western Digital Invests in Cloud Storage in M&A Wave (Data Economy)
Western Digital has made one of its strongest bets yet in the cloud market with the acquisition of cloud storage companies Tegile and UpThere. The buys follow from early reports th... More
Western Digital Acquires Upthere (HITS)
Western Digital and Upthere announced today that Western Digital has completed the asset acquisition of Upthere, a leading cloud services company that is providing a new and better... More
Western Digital Unveils its First Portable SSD (Engadget)
Western Digital only just started accepting that SSDs are ready for the mainstream, but it's making up for that lost time by launching its first portable SSD just months after unve... More
Western Digital’s HGST Archives One of the World’s Largest Collections of Live Jazz Music (MESA)
Western Digital announced that the HGST Active Archive System is enabling the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) to archive more than 17,000 hours’ worth of live ... More
Western Digital Names Martin Fink CTO (HITS)
Western Digital today announced the appointment of Martin Fink to the position of chief technology officer (CTO). Fink most recently served as CTO and director of HP Labs at Hewlet... More
Fortium, HGST at CPS: Selecting a Security Solution is Crucial Amid Piracy, Hacking Proliferation
Securing media and entertainment companies’ content — whether it’s a new movie or any of a company’s confidential stored data — remains important, but challenging, as pir... More
Western Digital Introduces Advanced Storage Devices to Manage Evolving Data Center Application Demands (HITS)
Western Digital today further expanded its data center SSD and HDD portfolio with the introduction of next-generation storage solutions designed to help IT managers address the int... More
Western Digital: There’s Growing Demand for Faster Performance, Greater Storage Capacity
There’s a growing demand in the IT sector for faster performance and greater capacity because we’re clearly in the middle of a “data explosion,” and all that data must be s... More
Western Digital Addresses Increasing Application Workload Demands for VMware Environments with New Certifications of Two SSDs (HITS)
Western Digital announced that two of its most compelling data center devices are now certified for use with VMware® environments1, including the high-capacity yet cost-effective ... More
Western Digital Goes for Performance and Sustainability With New Solid State Drives (VentureBeat)
Western Digital has gone both blue and green. The maker of hard drives and storage devices has a new line of high-capacity solid state drives (SSDs) that emphasize either the high-... More
HGST, a Western Digital Brand: Collaboration in a Crowded Storage Market
Being the oldest in your line of work is one thing. Being the biggest is another. Western Digital Corporation, including the HGST brand, happens to be both. The HGST brand wa... More