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How does WD ePMR reduce power consumption? Executive summary ePMR helps support Sustainable AI goals by improving the fundamental efficiency of storage infrastructure. By increasing areal density and capacity per drive, organizations can store more data with fewer physical assets, lowering watts per terabyte and improving storage Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). While not a […]

Most of the world thinks of WD as a hard disk drive (HDD) company. Inside our walls, we see things differently. We are a storage company, with HDD as our primary product. In fact, in the early days of our 56-year history, WD was not a hard drive vendor. The initial flagship product of our […]

Reframing Jensen Huang’s Five-Layer Cake Through the Lens of the Token Economy Key Takeaways Jensen Huang’s five-layer cake is missing a layer Jensen Huang recently described AI infrastructure as a five-layer stack: energy, chips, infrastructure, models, and applications.1 NVIDIA’s AI factory materials use the same structure and say AI factories are built to optimize token […]

What is the highest capacity enterprise HDD for AI? Key takeaways Executive summary AI workloads are accelerating unstructured data growth across enterprises, especially within data lake storage, nearline tiers, and long-term retention environments. While high-performance flash remains critical for active AI training and inference, most AI-era data must be stored with a focus on density, […]

Material Event filed 2026-06-11

Key Takeaways The last year has seen a remarkable growth in demand across the entire chain of AI infrastructure. With 2026 hyperscaler CapEx forecast by Data Center Knowledge at an eye-popping $700B, and projected to rise to $820B next year,1 it’s showing no signs of slowing down. Much of the focus has been on GPU, […]

How training, inference, and the data inference produces have together reshaped cloud storage, and why both flash and HDDs are winning. How training, inference, and the data inference produces have together reshaped cloud storage, and why both flash and HDDs are winning. Compute digests demand. Data compounds. That distinction, simple as it sounds, explains why […]

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Material Event filed 2026-05-28

For years, the AI conversation has been dominated by compute. Faster GPUs. Larger clusters. More powerful training environments. But as AI moves from experimentation into continuous, production-scale deployment, the industry is beginning to confront a different reality: AI is fundamentally a data systems challenge. Every AI workflow continuously generates new data, training datasets, inference logs, […]

Key Takeaways Safeguarding enterprise data at global scale is as complex as it is crucial. Whether at rest or in transit, the billions of bytes residing on enterprise hard drives today are typically encrypted to mitigate security weaknesses at points along the data path or workflow. However, a challenge that often goes unnoticed or unappreciated […]