HGST, a Western Digital Brand, Recognized by Gartner as a Niche Player in the Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems & O...
November 29 2017 - 8:00AM
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Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), with its ActiveScale™
object storage family of data center systems, has been recognized
by Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) in its 2017 Magic Quadrant for
Distributed File Systems and Object Storage¹. The company was
recognized for its completeness of vision and ability to
execute.
“In today's enterprise and cloud-scale data centers, there is
growing demand to deploy scalable storage architectures that
deliver high data integrity and long-term data management at a much
lower total cost for an expanding range of Big Data and Fast Data
applications,” said Phil Bullinger, general manager, Data Center
Systems Business Unit, Western Digital. “Our ActiveScale System
provides the foundation for 'Data Forever' environments,
simplifying the management of unstructured data for Big Data
analytics, backup and archive. By offering easy to deploy software
defined storage systems, we enable our users to shift their focus
and investments from infrastructure to extracting value from data,
so that they can be more competitive.”
Bullinger added: “We are honored to be recognized by Gartner. We
feel Western Digital is disrupting the economics of data with our
ActiveScale object storage system that is well-suited for petabyte
(PB)-scale deployments.”
Western Digital will showcase its Big Data and Fast Data
Solutions at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations Management
& Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, December 4-7. On
Tuesday, December 5 Stefaan Vervaet, senior director of Cloud
Strategies, will be speaking at 3:45 PT in the Venetian G
conference room.
According to the Gartner report, “with data growth exceeding 50
percent year over year, infrastructure and operations (I&O)
leaders are looking for extensible on-premises storage products
that can address an increasing number of digital business use cases
with lower acquisition and operational costs.” The report further
notes, “by 2021, more than 80 percent of enterprise data will be
stored in scale-out storage systems in enterprise and cloud data
centers, up from 30 percent today.” Western Digital believes it is
imperative that enterprises deploy a flexible and scalable
solution, like the ActiveScale System, to manage their vast amount
of data.
The HGST-branded ActiveScale system is a fully self-contained,
scale-out object storage system that rivals the scale and total
cost of ownership (TCO) benefits of traditional cloud
infrastructures. It scales up to 5.8 petabytes (PB) of raw data
storage in a single rack, and scales out to more than 52PB (raw) to
support the growth and scale of even the largest enterprises and
cloud service providers. The ActiveScale system helps customers
implement a “Data Forever” strategy that delivers the seamless
scalability and extreme data durability required for long-term data
storage, across generations of hardware technology. Its patented
BitSpread® dynamic data placement technology adapts to changes in
the configuration, hardware failures, or additional capacity
without impacting operations, and without rebalancing.
View a complimentary copy of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Distributed File Systems and Object Storage at:
http://pages.hgst.com/2017GartnerMQ_ObjectStorage.html.
For more information on the Western Digital ActiveScale
portfolio, visit: https://www.hgst.com/products/systems.
¹Source: Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems
and Object Storage,” Julia Palmer, Arun Chandrasekaran, Raj Bala,
17 October 2017.
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innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access and
transform an ever-increasing diversity of data. Everywhere data
lives, from advanced data centers to mobile sensors to personal
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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 StatementsThis news release contains
certain forward-looking statements, including statements relating
to the market for and capabilities of our ActiveScale systems.
These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those expressed in the forward-looking statements, including
but not limited to, the risks detailed in our Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filings, including our most recent Form
10-Q filed with the SEC on Nov. 7, 2017, to which your attention is
directed. You should not place undue reliance on these
forward-looking statements and Western Digital undertakes no
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subsequent events or circumstances.
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