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Hybrid Disk/Flash Storage Isn’t New, But It Is Getting Better

September 1, 2021 Jeffrey Burt 0

Five years ago, Western Digital, known for its hard disk drive (HDD) storage technologies, doled out $19 billion in cash and stock for SanDisk and its solid state drive (SDD) product portfolio, giving it deep expertise in the non-volatile flash memory space at a time when enterprises were looking for expanded storage options in the wake of the rise of the cloud and the edge. …

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When It Comes To AI, Flash Is Getting Smaller And Bigger

July 28, 2021 Joseph Martins Comments Off on When It Comes To AI, Flash Is Getting Smaller And Bigger

Sponsored We all know AI and machine learning rely on vast amounts of data, just as we all know the Internet is largely cat videos and other user-generated content no one ever looks at. …

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Wondering Where Your Data Is? It’s Probably Chilling On A Hard Disk

July 12, 2021 Comments Off on Wondering Where Your Data Is? It’s Probably Chilling On A Hard Disk

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Robert Anderson’s tongue is only partly in his cheek when he says, “The greatest thing ever for the HDD industry was the smartphone.” …

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Why Dropbox’s Exascale Strategy Is Long-Term, On-Prem Disk

March 9, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 2

The various life-extension technologies that will keep disk at the forefront of some of the largest storage installations are working–and keeping disk’s largest consumers, like Dropbox, around for long haul…

When it comes to exascale storage capacity, the national labs have nothing on Dropbox. …

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COVID Modeling Demands Mean Big Storage Boost for IHME

January 22, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 0

Over the course of the pandemic, you have probably encountered data from IHME, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. …

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Hard Disks Give New Technologies a Spin

October 17, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

There is little doubt that solid state disks have become a disruptive force for datacenter storage and have bright future. …

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Rumors of Disk’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

September 16, 2019 Nicole Hemsoth 1

We talked recently about the addition of new layers of performance in the storage stack and how users and storage architects are trying to make most effective use of those. …

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Western Digital Drives HPC Simulation Scale On AWS

February 25, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Any on premises HPC cluster has its own limits of scale and throughput. …

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