The All-Flash Data Center was supposed to eliminate all storage problems and allow the application architecture to scale to new heights. The problem is data capacities are growing faster than the cost per GB of flash can decrease. Most data…
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Webinar: The All-Flash Fix – How to Create a Hybrid Storage Architecture
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, Tegile, Virtualization, Western Digital
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
ChalkTalk Video: Object Storage Needs Flash Too!
Object storage is known by many for its ability to drive down the cost to store data through the use of commodity servers and high capacity hard drives. But object storage systems need flash and object storage system designers need…
Enterprise-grade Backup for SMBs – WD Arkeia DA2300 Backup Appliance Part 2
This is part two of Storage Switzerland’s test drive of WD’s DA2300 Backup Appliance that features the WD Arkeia backup software. In part one we went through the set up and configuration steps, getting backup clients connected to the system…
Tagged with: Arkeia, Backup, Data Reduction, Deduplication, RAID, Replication, SMB, Storage Space, Video, Virtualization, Western Digital, Windows
Posted in Lab Report
Posted in Lab Report
Enterprise-grade Backup for SMBs – WD Arkeia DA2300 Backup Appliance
The DA2300 is a purpose-built backup appliance from Western Digital that runs the Arkeia backup software package on a capable quad-core, four-drive desktop chassis that WD originally developed for their small business server. While it offers enterprise-level features that meet…
Why HGST is now building Storage Systems
Historically, HGST (a subsidiary of WD) and other drive manufacturers have done an impressive job with innovation both from an incremental perspective (when you build millions of units, you get good at fine tuning a technology) and with larger scale…
HGST upgrades Flash Acceleration hardware and software products
HGST, a division of longtime disk drive manufacturer Western Digital, announced updates for two products in the application acceleration market. FlashMAX III is the latest generation of half-height, half-length PCIe accelerator cards designed for high performance enterprise and hyper-scale environments.…
Tagged with: Deduplication, Disk Drive, Flash, Flash Acceleration, HGST, PCIe, performance, SSD, VeloBit, Western Digital
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Storage Q&A: An SMB NAS that brings the Cloud to Small Businesses
For many small to medium sized businesses (SMBs), the cloud may be intimidating. It sounds appealing but they think it’s too expensive or too complex for their business. WD is trying to dispel those notions with a line of products…
Shining a light on Shadow IT
IT Cloak and Dagger With the advent of cloud computing, all it takes is the swipe of a credit card to instantly get more storage capacity. Likewise, some users may just opt to purchase their own physical storage and keep…
ChalkTalk Video – The right way to the SMB Cloud
The storage cloud is very appealing to small companies for several reasons. It’s easy to get started – simply install a piece of software on the user’s computer and you’re ready to go – and thanks to the practice of…
Tagged with: Backup, Cache, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Medium Size Business, Small Business, SMB, Western Digital
Posted in Video
Posted in Video
A One-box Upgrade for Small Business IT part 3 – Exploring Windows Storage Spaces
The WD Sentinel DS5100/6100 is a compact file server system from disk drive manufacturer Western Digital (WD), designed for the Small- to Medium-sized Business (SMB). The DS5100/6100 comes with Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials and has the upgraded hardware…
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