Tag: Western Digital
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Smarter Data and a New Era of Connected Health Care
Western Digital Blog – 3.28.23 Mike Verdugo, senior director of business process transformation in Western Digital’s corporate strategy organization, is passionate about the roles data and storage play in improving people’s lives. When he was 33 years old, he was diagnosed with Type I, insulin-dependent diabetes. A life changing event. Source: Smarter Data and a…
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How UltraSMR Makes the Industry’s Highest Capacity Drives
Western Digital – 1.4.22 Last May, Western Digital introduced its 26TB hard drive, the industry’s highest capacity drive available. It allows cloud-scale customers to achieve the ginormous capacities required for today’s massive data storage needs. The storage leader’s unceasing capacity gains are made possible by integrating multiple technology innovations. One such compilation is UltraSMR, which helped bring…
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How Data Unlocks the Future of Autonomous Vehicles
Western Digital Blog – 12.7.22 In the autonomous vehicles (AVs) industry, engineers, data scientists, and business leaders have all identified true self-driving vehicles as not just a priority, but an eventuality. That narrative is so strong, however, it’s easy to forget that the mass deployment of AVs still faces significant challenges that extend beyond training…
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Privacy Without Compromise
Western Digital YouTube Channel – 9.9.22 Western Digital provides products and services that store and transfer data with the understating that protecting your data is critical. Source: Privacy Without Compromise
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Innovation & Disruption: The Next 35 Years of Flash
Western Digital YouTube Channel – 8/13/22 (8.12.22) Since its conception more than 35 years ago, NAND Flash has transformed industries, fueled innovations and disrupted markets. From mobile devices and connected vehicles to gaming and data centers, Flash is at the core. Virtually every market is growing in ways that demand more than just faster…
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Damaris Davis: Generating the Future
Western Digital Blog – 4.11.22 Damaris Davis bought a 3D printer thinking she’d start a few small projects in her free time, but her twelve-year-old daughter had other plans. Inspired by a recent cover of Make Magazine, she wanted to build a humanoid. “And so that’s what she did one summer,” said Damaris. “It blew my…
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What It Takes to Build an Award-Winning Drive
WD Blog – 3.21.22 WD_BLACK launched in 2019 as a brand purpose-built for the high-performance challenges of video game storage. As excellence is a lifelong pursuit that requires determination and talent in equal parts, the global team behind WD_BLACK has proved its excellence by being recognized as named one of Fast Company’s 10 most innovative companies in gaming for…
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Changing the Game: eSports in Schools
Western Digital Blog – 1.5.22 Josh D. is a high school senior. Outside of classes, he spends more than 10 hours each week at practice and meets with coaches and teammates to prepare for competitions. Some of these competitions take place in large arenas. Others are virtual. They have equipment and uniforms. He, and others…
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Redrawing the Map: How Location Data Drives Innovation
Western Digital Blog – 12.27.21 Smartphones are gold mines of technologies that power countless uses. Accelerometers and gyroscopes offer utility and quality-of-life features, but the GPS built into the phone is chief among them. Modern phones and other mobile devices provide near real-time location data, and the value of this data has not been lost…
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Not Just Talk: How Mobile Storage Keeps Pace with Smart Phones
Western Digital Blog – 7.23.21 (7.17.21) The first mobile phones weighed a few pounds, sported an awkward antenna, and were the size of a small briefcase. Today’s mobile devices tout the ability to quickly upload photos while on vacation, verify owner identity by fingerprint or facial recognition, or make a purchase while simultaneously streaming a…