All Research Sponsored By:Western Digital

Impact of 5G on the Future of Storage
WHITE PAPER: This paper will explain how 5G will primarily be an enabler of digital transformation and have a significant impact on where data is stored and processed and how that will impact the future of storage.
Posted: 23 Nov 2020 | Published: 23 Nov 2020

TOPICS:  IT Management

100+ Million Cameras – AI and Video are Changing the Edge
WHITE PAPER: Learn how the drastic increase in network cameras and use of AI is causing organizations to rethink their edge architectures.
Posted: 23 Nov 2020 | Published: 23 Nov 2020

TOPICS:  IT Management

OpenFlex Composable Infrastructure: Highly Scalable and Flexible Resource Utilization
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how OpenFlex Composable Infrastructure uses NVMe™-over-Fabric to dramatically improve compute and storage utilization, performance, and agility in the data center.
Posted: 23 Nov 2020 | Published: 23 Nov 2020

TOPICS:  IT Management

Innovative Design for Storage Enclosures Reduces Field Drive Returns by 62%
WHITE PAPER: Learn how innovation in the storage enclosure hardware can actually pay great dividends in terms of cost, performance and reliability and learn how Western Digital's deep knowledge of the interaction of devices and systems can help ensure an efficient design.
Posted: 23 Nov 2020 | Published: 23 Nov 2020

TOPICS:  IT Management

Fabrics and the New Data Infrastructure
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how new data infrastructure is coming and what that new infrastructure will look like as well as why we actually need it.
Posted: 23 Nov 2020 | Published: 23 Nov 2020

TOPICS:  IT Management

Reducing the Hidden Costs of Storage
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how having your staff spend less time replacing drives combined with increased saving in power and cooling with Western Digital can result in significant reduction in costs.
Posted: 23 Nov 2020 | Published: 23 Nov 2020

TOPICS:  IT Management

What is Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure?
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains current data center challenges and how Composable disaggregated Infrastructure is able to help your organization meet these challenges head on.
Posted: 23 Nov 2020 | Published: 23 Nov 2020

TOPICS:  IT Management

Enabling Business with NVMe-oF™
WHITE PAPER: Learn how NVME™ over fabrics (NVMe-oF™) can deliver great performance while also being able to mix and match different combinations of resources so you can tune your environment to meet business needs and rebuild it on the fly as those needs change.
Posted: 23 Nov 2020 | Published: 23 Nov 2020

TOPICS:  IT Management

OpenFlex™ Delivers Composability to Oracle® Database Environments
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how running your Oracle database environment on a highly reliable, ultra-high-performance OpenFlex storage solution, your business can gain and keep its competitive edge.
Posted: 23 Nov 2020 | Published: 23 Nov 2020

TOPICS:  IT Management

Push Your SQL Server® Data Strategy to the Next Level with OpenFlex™ Open Composable Infrastructure Storage
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how OpenFlex™ Open Composable Infrastructure Storage gives your business a boost by accelerating SQL Server applications with predictable performance to extract maximum performance from NVMe flash.
Posted: 23 Nov 2020 | Published: 23 Nov 2020

TOPICS:  IT Management

ICM Brain & Spine Institute Breaks the Storage Bottleneck for Life Sciences Computing
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how ICM Brain & Spine Institute turned to OpenFlex Composable Infrastructure from Western Digital to provide a storage infrastructure that could keep pace with their needs and scale for the future.
Posted: 23 Nov 2020 | Published: 23 Nov 2020

TOPICS:  IT Management

Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) SSDs Explained
WHITE PAPER: Learn the value of Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) SSDs for highly-scalable digital architectures – cloud services, mega digital platforms, and data center infrastructure – for data-intensive workloads.
Posted: 28 Oct 2020 | Published: 28 Oct 2020

TOPICS:  IT Management

NVMe™ Spec Ratification and New ZNS Milestones
WHITE PAPER: This paper will focus on Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) because there are significant milestones which were recently achieved that are particularly of interest for data center architects and developers.
Posted: 28 Oct 2020 | Published: 28 Oct 2020

TOPICS:  IT Management

Three Technologies that Make HDD Magic
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn what three technologies are currently used in Western Digital's HDDs that make it possible to increase storage capacity to 18 terabytes and 20 terabytes in a 1 inch casing.
Posted: 28 Oct 2020 | Published: 28 Oct 2020

TOPICS:  IT Management

New NVMe Western Digital SSDs Target Cloud, Hyperscale, and the Edge
EGUIDE: View the following expert guide to examine the benefits of running read-intensive workloads in public and private clouds, hyperscale data centers, and edge computing deployments on NVMe.
Posted: 30 Jul 2019 | Published: 29 Jul 2019


Western Digital IntelliFlash Adds NVMe and SAS Storage to Its Lineup
EGUIDE: Recognizing this mission-critical need for latency and the shortcomings of legacy SAS, Western Digital recently revamped its IntelliFlash storage by adding an NVMe all-flash building block and a higher-capacity hybrid SAS array. Read this expert guide to learn more about these developments.
Posted: 29 Jul 2019 | Published: 25 Jul 2019


On-premises, in the Cloud and Hybrid: Object Storage Options and Use Cases
EGUIDE: This expert guide looks at how object storage is tackling the issue of unstructured data volumes. Access it now for an in-depth look at object storage use cases and 11 vendors to see for yourself if it's a good fit for your organization.
Posted: 23 May 2019 | Published: 20 May 2019


Advantages of Object Storage and How It Differs from Alternatives
EGUIDE: This TechTarget-produced expert guide digs into the advantages of object storage and how it differs from other storage technologies. Download now for a rundown of key characteristics; a bakeoff between object, file, and block storage; and more.
Posted: 22 May 2019 | Published: 20 May 2019


Safeway Insurance Streamlines Policy Management Platform with Western Digital
CASE STUDY: To support their application access needs for over 500 employees and thousands of insurance agents and customers, Safeway Insurance test-drove NVMe-based all-flash arrays. Click here to see the results and see for yourself why they made the choice.
Posted: 12 Apr 2019 | Published: 12 Apr 2019


Bringing Ludicrous Mode to the Data Center the Easy Way
WHITE PAPER: Wish you had 'Ludicrous Mode' for some of your data? Here's how to build a single environment that can support Ludicrous Mode and the rest of your applications.
Posted: 15 Mar 2019 | Published: 15 Mar 2019

TOPICS:  IT Management

ESG Brief - Flash Storage: Growth, Acceptance, and the Rise of NVMe
WHITE PAPER: Read the report to see where the IT industry is heading, the key drivers for deployment, and benefits realized from solid-state storage.
Posted: 15 Mar 2019 | Published: 15 Mar 2019

TOPICS:  IT Management

Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) Details and Capabilities
WHITE PAPER: Will NVMe actually make a difference in the data center? Download this 10-page e-book for the answer to that question, with guidance on understanding NVMe and scale-out NVMe, practical applications, how flash needs to evolve to support NVMe, and more.
Posted: 15 Mar 2019 | Published: 15 Mar 2019


Differentiating All-flash Array Vendors from their Counterparts
EGUIDE: Our experts compiled this guide to determining the most suitable AFA vendor for your enterprise—ensuring you choose one that not only provides snapshots and thin provisioning, but also active-active controllers and replication, and QoS. Read on to also gain access to instruction for a three-phase AFA implementation.
Posted: 26 Jun 2017 | Published: 19 Jun 2017


Flashing Towards the Future of NVMe-Enabled Storage
EGUIDE: In this guide, read an interview with the CEO of one major flash storage distributor as he talks about NVMe, how customers are using SSDs, and plans for the future. Then, read more about an all-flash offering that's already prepped for NVMe capabilities as soon as the demand arises.
Posted: 26 Jun 2017 | Published: 20 Jun 2017


Full Guide to the Growth of NVMe
EGUIDE: Read this expert-guide to discover the benefits nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) provides, and explore how yet another stage of NVMe development, NVMe over Fabrics, is allowing this tech to scale rapidly to meet development needs. Then, learn why the introduction of NVMe over Ethernet may be the only thing capable of saving Ethernet drives.
Posted: 21 Jun 2017 | Published: 19 Jun 2017