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…
The Next Game-Changer Is in the Cloud
Game Changer The most-played game of the 2000s was not Wii Sports, Grand Theft Auto, or The Sims. It was…
What Happens After Moore’s Law?
The assumption that every technology will continue to get faster and better has become second nature much in thanks to…
AI Enters the Fight to Cure Breast Cancer
In March of 2020, some positive news was buried in virus panic: using advanced stem cell technology, doctors cured a…
What Is “Next-Gen”? How SSDs are Shaping Gaming’s Evolution
In November, Sony and Microsoft released their newest home video game consoles. Along with a bevy of new games and…
The Project That Never Sleeps
Perched on the window in the top left corner of his living room sits a mounted DSLR camera that peers…
Living on the Edge
New storage solutions will bring the data center to the remote edge From stoplights to space stations, IoT, 5G, and…
Changing Course – The Journey to ZNS
Matias Bjørling is an engineer by day and an amateur woodworker by night. He likes to build furniture and other…
Flash Perspective: A Conversation with Rob Soderbery
The growth of the NAND flash market continues at a breakneck pace. With practically every new technology innovation developed with…
A Venture into Chia Farming
When Shannon Hames, a public relations specialist at Western Digital, first heard about the cryptocurrency Chia, she was curious about…
Speeding Up: How AI and Data Are Accelerating Our Cities
Traffic is inescapable for millions of people around the world. Whether it’s the morning commute or the weekend escape, the…
Why Cold Storage Is So Hot Right Now
Baseball is back. And with the return of a new season comes hours of content: player statistics, team records, video…
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…
