The Demise of the Centralized Data Center
In traditional thinking, the data center is a site where the collection of servers, storage, networking, and applications reside to…
Go for WD Gold, Our Enterprise-Class HDDs
As data continues to grow, it adds complexities to the storage architecture of our customers. Whether data is generated from…
End-to-End NVMe™ is Your Future, the Only Question is When
Guest blog by Tony Lock, Director of Engagement & Distinguished Analyst, and Bryan Betts, Principal Analyst, of Freeform Dynamics Ltd…
3 Things We Learned (the Hard Way) About Data Quality
The definition of data quality is not straightforward. It is rather a qualitative assessment of how well data can serve…
Tech It Out! We Helped Open a Tech Lab for Bay Area Youth
For kids growing up in East Palo Alto, a historically underserved community in the affluent Bay Area, having access to…
How to Shift to Data @ the Center
You may have noticed we’ve been sharing our thoughts on “Data @ the Center” for a few months. From a…
Designing for the Edge – 5 Trends in Smart Security
Smart security is moving beyond static surveillance to real-time video analytics, thanks to new capabilities enabled by artificial intelligence (AI)….
SAS Lives On and Here’s Why
In the Zettabyte Age, data is the new lifeline. Data is transforming anything and everything at an unprecedented rate in…
Making Data Infrastructure Safer and More Transparent with OpenTitan
Today, we have announced an exciting new partnership with lowRISC and Google in support of OpenTitan, the first open-source project…
SCinet’19 – Making the Impossible Possible
By Walt Hinton, Pavilion Data Systems Supercomputing 2019 will be held in my back yard of Denver, Colorado, from November…
Drive the Future
Data storage helps the automotive industry take the next step forward Car manufactures are building smarter technologies into autonomous vehicles…
The Race to Seal Helium HDDs
Innovation is rarely quick and often only obvious in hindsight. Helium has been one of the greatest breakthroughs for high-capacity…
A Taste of Data: How Data Is Revolutionizing the Alcohol Industry
Since antiquity, humans have made alcohol. It’s part of our ancestry and our every day, and there’s always been a…
Power to the Data Center: Hero or Villain?
Data centers are among the largest consumers of power and electricity, using an estimated two percent of the world’s electricity…
Power to the Data Center: Hero or Villian?
Data centers are among the largest consumers of power and electricity, using an estimated two percent of the world’s electricity…
The Shift to Shared: A New Approach to Optimizing IT Operations
Ask any data center architect what keeps them up at night and they will likely mention downtime and how to…
Five Reasons the 2019 RISC-V Summit is a Can’t-Miss Event
Whether you’re a veteran RISC-V enthusiast or brand new to the world of open-source instruction set architecture (ISA), the RISC-V…
The IoT Evolution – Top 9 IoT Use Cases of 2019
As smart sensors are placed in billions of connected devices around the world, new IoT applications are generating massive streams…
Driving to Data-Centric Architectures and 1B RISC-V Cores
Two years ago we kicked off our commitment to open-source innovation by announcing our goal to transition over one billion…
In 2039, Could Fully Autonomous and Connected Cars Exist?
Recently, I gave the opening remarks and sat in on a panel at A Data-Driven Futurean automotive industry event hosted…
2019 Data Center Year in Review
The era of digital business transformation has been in full thrust in 2019, as emerging applications and data center infrastructure…
Industrial-Grade Storage Enables Drones for Search and Rescue Teams
First things, first: I’m a proud member of the El Dorado County Search and Rescue (EDSAR) organization and have been…
