Dave Tang, Western Digital | Western Digital the Next Decade of Big Data 2017
Dave Tang, SVP of Corporate Marketing & Communications sits down with Jeff Frick at Innovating to Fuel the Next Decade of Big Data, Western Digital World HQ in San Jose, CA #theCUBE #WesternDigital #SiliconANGLE https://siliconangle.com/2017/10/16/hot-storage-technology-gets-a-cool-down-from-western-digital-letdatathrive/ Covering the complete data environment Western Digital’s latest moves indicate a desire to follow the trends in enterprise computing with a technology portfolio to meet cost and performance demands. Need to extend the data storage lifecycle at a higher capacity with less expense? Check. Interested in a flash solution? They’ve got that covered, too. But the company is also taking a future focus as demonstrated by the new storage technology. “The useful life of data is growing exponentially along with the volume,” Tang explained. “You have to provide complete environments to capture and access and preserve and transform that data, which means we have to go well beyond storage and think about how that data is accessed.” Western Digital’s breakthrough technology may go a long way toward meeting enterprise storage needs for the foreseeable future. The proliferation of IoT devices and growing fondness for data-intensive artificial intelligence technologies virtually ensures that the need to store vast amounts of information is not going to change anytime soon. “Long live data; that’s what we say,” Grace said.