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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Robert Anderson’s tongue is only partly in his cheek when he says, “The greatest thing ever for the HDD industry was the smartphone.” …
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. …
There is little doubt that solid state disks have become a disruptive force for datacenter storage and have bright future. …
Any on premises HPC cluster has its own limits of scale and throughput. …
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