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Post-Quantum Cryptography for Enterprise HDDs | WD
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (525+ words) At WD we make protecting our customers" storage solutions part of our company mission. This is why upgrading the algorithms that protect our storage hardware from bad actors is critical to our engineering and innovation efforts. Toward that end, WD…...
AI Storage vs. Memory: Understanding the Difference in AI Infrastructure | WD
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (688+ words) When I was a teen, which to those who know me will be no surprise, I was the only computer-literate person, and surely the only computer geek, in the household. I recall telling my father at the time that we…...
Why AI Data Centers Are Really Data Systems | WD
1+ week, 2+ day ago (346+ words) The AI infrastructure conversation has a compute problem'not a shortage of it, but an obsession with it. Every AI workflow is a data generator. Training runs produce model weights. Inference produces outputs, logs, embeddings, and context. None of that disappears…...
Why Cloud Storage Runs on Hard Drives, Not SSDs | WD
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1215+ words) Most people picture something out of the movies: racks of SSDs, optimized for performance. The reality is different. And more revealing. At scale, the cloud is still built largely on spinning disks. That becomes even more true in AI systems,…...
Building Sustainable AI Data Infrastructure: WD's FY2025 Progress | WD
3+ week, 5+ day ago (760+ words) At WD, sustainability is not a side initiative, it is fundamental to how we innovate, operate, and grow. As we release our FY2025 Annual Sustainability Report, we are doing so at a moment of profound transformation. The rapid acceleration of AI…...
Why AI Data Centers Must Be Designed as Data Systems | WD
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1334+ words) At scale, how you manage data'not how much compute you deploy'determines whether AI delivers sustained business value. AI infrastructure is still largely understood as structured around compute. It is more than that. In reality, it is a data system. For…...
What Must Stay Human: Designing AI-Driven Workforce Strategy | WD
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (669+ words) AI is moving faster than certainty. As new tools and capabilities emerge almost daily, organizations are racing to keep up. But at WD, we believe this moment requires more than speed'it requires intention. Because the most important question isn't what…...
World Backup Day 2026: Enterprise Data Resilience & AI Readiness | WD
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (173+ words) At WD, we believe in powering possibilities'not only for what data can do today, but for what it must enable tomorrow. Backup isn't about preservation alone. It's about driving your business forward with confidence. We drive forward with the understanding…...
WD Named One of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 8th Year
2+ mon, 2+ hour ago (381+ words) WD plays a critical role in providing essential infrastructure for the AI-driven data economy. With that role comes a responsibility to operate transparently and to hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards'every day. It is therefore an incredible honor that…...
WD Earns A- CDP Climate Score | Sustainability Leadership
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (250+ words) Our climate efforts are bolstered by strong commitments that we have translated into concrete action and measurable progress. These commitments are more than aspirational'they are woven into the life cycle of our products, from design to manufacturing to distributions, and…...