Western Digital Unveils Advanced Storage Platform Technology for Ultra High-Performance “Fast Data” Cloud Scale Applicati...
December 06 2016 - 7:58AM
Business Wire
Storage Leader Demonstrates Next-Generation
Flash Platform Technology, Delivering Unprecedented Levels of
Performance, Scalability, TCO and Optimization Enabling
Disaggregated Cloud Data Center Architectures
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today unveiled innovative
technology aimed at optimizing storage performance, efficiency and
cost in disaggregated cloud-scale data center infrastructures.
Targeting the needs of real-time applications, the advanced flash
platform provides breakthrough performance that can be provisioned
across multiple servers. This advanced platform leverages the
company’s unique expertise in high-performance, high-capacity flash
technologies to deliver unprecedented value for its customers.
At its 2016 Investor Day today, Western Digital is highlighting
an all-flash storage platform that delivers 18 million input/output
operations per second (IOPS) of performance. Using only 2-units (2U
or 3.75-inch) of rack space, this represents the highest
performance per rack unit in the industry. This performance is
achieved through industry-standard NVMe SSDs connected to multiple
servers over a PCIe switched fabric. The low latencies of these
devices and the PCIe interconnect combine to deliver a winning
combination of high performance and compact form factor. In
addition to raw performance, the technology provides independent
provisioning of capacity and performance, which is essential to the
sharing of storage resources in a disaggregated cloud data center
architecture. The platform is designed to provide the high
availability and serviceability required to support business
critical applications. The capabilities of this advanced platform
are ideally suited for real-time and streaming analytics
applications such as credit card fraud detection, video stream
analysis, location-based services, advertising servers, automated
systems, and solutions built on artificial intelligence (AI),
machine learning (ML), or deep learning (DL).
“While the benefits of disaggregating resources, such as
compute, storage, and networking for cloud-scale data centers is
well understood, the fundamental building blocks will need to be
more than just a collection of raw devices,” said Dave Tang, senior
vice president and general manager, data center systems business
unit, Western Digital. “To deliver new levels of performance,
efficiency and TCO, our advanced platform enables data center
operators to build more efficient systems that offer tuning of
storage performance as required by their individual applications.
Our expertise in performance flash and system technologies gives us
unique capabilities to innovate for the future.”
The high-performance NVMe-over-PCIe fabric advanced flash
platform will be available in the first half of calendar 2017. To
foster standardization, the company plans to contribute software in
support of this technology to the open source community.
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About Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) is an industry-leading
provider of storage technologies and solutions that enable people
to create, leverage, experience and preserve data. The company
addresses ever-changing market needs by providing a full portfolio
of compelling, high-quality storage solutions with customer-focused
innovation, high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Our products
are marketed under the HGST, SanDisk and WD brands to OEMs,
distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure providers and
consumers.
One GB is equal to one billion bytes and one TB equals 1,000 GB
(one trillion bytes). One PB is equal to 1,000 TB (one quadrillion
bytes). Actual capacity will vary depending on operating
environment and formatting. Usable capacity will vary from the raw
capacity due to object storage methodologies and other factors.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including statements concerning the development, performance and
capacity, capabilities, applications, and availability of the
company’s flash platform technology. There are a number of risks
and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements
to be inaccurate including, among others: volatility in global
economic conditions; business conditions and growth in the storage
ecosystem; impact of competitive products and pricing; market
acceptance and cost of commodity materials and specialized product
components; actions by competitors; unexpected advances in
competing technologies; our development and introduction of
products based on new technologies and expansion into new data
storage markets; risks associated with acquisitions, mergers and
joint ventures; difficulties or delays in manufacturing; and other
risks and uncertainties listed in the company's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including the
company’s Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on Nov. 8, 2016, to which
your attention is directed. The company undertakes no obligation to
update the information in this release in the event facts or
circumstances change after the date of this release.
© 2016 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights
reserved. Western Digital, WD, and SanDisk are registered
trademarks or trademarks of Western Digital Corporation or its
affiliates in the US and/or other countries. All other marks are
the property of their respective owners.
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