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Hard Drives Are The Mark Twain Of Technology
After almost two years with data storage giant Western Digital, Ashley Gorakhpurwalla is getting used to the questions. …
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Hybrid Disk/Flash Storage Isn’t New, But It Is Getting Better
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
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
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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
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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Hard Disks Give New Technologies a Spin
There is little doubt that solid state disks have become a disruptive force for datacenter storage and have bright future. …
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Western Digital Drives HPC Simulation Scale On AWS
Any on premises HPC cluster has its own limits of scale and throughput. …