Western Digital Expands Smart Video Surveillance Solutions for Growing AI-Enabled Workloads from Endpoint to Cloud
May 18 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
New WD Purple Pro product line brings elevated
performance, workload capability and reliability to advanced
AI-enabled recorders and video analytics server applications
Empowering the world’s essential data infrastructure,
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced the expansion
of the WD Purple family with the WD Purple™ Pro product line for a
new generation of advanced AI-enabled recorders and back-end
servers.
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The worldwide video surveillance camera market is estimated to
grow to $44 billion by 2025, up from $23.6 billion in 2019,
according to IDC. Emerging smart video architectures that capture,
store and analyze massive amounts of video data, and perform heavy
deep-learning video analytics, are putting an unprecedented level
of stress on storage subsystems. The new WD Purple Pro line is
designed to handle these workloads with optimized storage
performance, capacity, workload capability and reliability for a
myriad of devices, including AI-enabled network video recorders
(NVRs), video analytics servers, storage arrays and storage/server
solutions, including those that perform deep-learning
analytics.
“With the addition of WD Purple Pro, our full portfolio of smart
video products covers customers’ needs from dedicated WD Purple
microSD™ cards for cameras to WD Purple hard drives for mainstream
NVRs and the new generation of smart video architectures, where the
‘smart’ of the solution starts with the brains at the back-end –
the servers that perform video analytics and heavy computational
deep learning,” said Brian Mallari, director of marketing for Smart
Video, Western Digital. “WD Purple Pro is the ideal solution to
enable original equipment manufacturers and integrators to evolve
their systems for emerging AI workloads.”
WD Purple Pro hard drive benefits include:
- Enhanced AllFrame™ AI technology enabling video streams from up
to 64 HD cameras to be recorded concurrently¹, while simultaneously
handling up to an additional 32 AI streams for AI functions,
whether cameras are directly connected to advanced recorders or to
cloud-based servers.
- High performance and workload capability, supporting up to
550TB a year workload rating², provides for the additional demands
of AI functionality, including pattern matching and object/event
recognition, while writing a multitude of video streams.
- High reliability and capacity solutions help retain and feed
thousands of hours of training video to enable effective
deep-learning and AI algorithm development. Capacities range from
8TB to 18TB³ with a five-year limited warranty.
- Enterprise-class durability to work seamlessly in large-scale,
high-density video analytics servers and cloud solutions. Offers
ongoing HDD health monitoring in compatible systems with Western
Digital Device Analytics™ support.
“Western Digital’s new WD Purple Pro, AI-ready high-capacity
solutions offer the performance needed for data-heavy workloads and
provide the reliability our customers need to store their critical
data,” said Dave Nieweg, community program manager, Milestone
Systems. “Whether providing more secure access to a building or
school, monitoring patients, or capturing and analyzing smart city
parking and transportation data for safety and efficiency, offering
users a trusted storage solution from the cameras at the endpoints
to the cloud is essential.”
Western Digital’s full family of WD Purple solutions for smart
video surveillance includes 1TB³ WD Purple microSD cards for
cameras and edge devices to 1TB-8TB³ WD Purple HDDs for NVRs; and
now, WD Purple Pro drives from 8TB to 18TB³ to support a range of
systems for AI-heavy workloads, including back-end enterprise
servers. WD Purple Pro solutions will be available this quarter
from Western Digital resellers.
Related Western Digital resources:
- Speeding Up: How AI and Data Are Accelerating Our Cities -
blog
- Storage for advanced smart video solutions – product brief
About Western Digital
Western Digital creates environments for data to thrive. As a
leader in data infrastructure, the company is driving the
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
devices, our industry-leading solutions deliver the possibilities
of data. Our data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western
Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk® and WD® brands.
¹Single stream per camera @ 3.2Mbps (1080p, H.265, 25 fps).
Results may vary depending on camera resolution, file format,
frames per second, software, system settings, video quality, and
other factors.
²Workload Rate is defined as the amount of user data transferred
to or from the hard drive. Workload Rate is annualized (TB
transferred ✕ (8760 / recorded power-on hours)). Workload Rate will
vary depending on your hardware and software components and
configurations.
³As used for storage capacity, 1GB = 1 billion bytes and 1TB =
one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less due to
operating environment.
Western Digital, the Western Digital logo, G-Technology,
SanDisk, WD, AllFrame, WD Purple, and Western Digital Device
Analytics 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. Product specifications subject to change without notice.
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Erin Hartin Western Digital Public Relations 1-303-601-8035
erin.hartin@wdc.com
T. Peter Andrew Western Digital Investor Relations
1-800-695-6399 investor@wdc.com
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