Western Digital Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Transition to NVMe with New WD Gold NVMe SSDs
March 04 2020 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
New WD Gold Enterprise-class NVMe SSDs Designed
to Dramatically Improve Application Responsiveness and
Performance
News highlights:
- With the industry transitioning to NVMe, the new WD Gold NVMe
SSDs enable SME data centers to improve application responsiveness,
lower TCO and accelerate time to business decisions
- Delivering up to 5x sequential performance compared to
enterprise SATA SSDs, WD Gold NVMe SSDs help enterprise
infrastructures scale to peak demand for applications such as
business intelligence, data analytics, virtualization and ERP,
while delivering peace-of-mind with high reliability
- With its own NAND flash, purpose-built firmware and in-house
integrated controller, Western Digital demonstrates
silicon-to-system expertise and leverages its expansive
distribution channel to empower a broad set of customers to easily
transition to NVMe technology
Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) is enabling small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) to easily transition to NVMe™ storage and
dramatically improve application performance with a new addition to
its portfolio of data center NVMe SSDs: the first enterprise-class
NVMe SSD in the WD Gold™ family.
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Western Digital Empowering Small and
Medium Enterprises in Transition to NVMe with New WD Gold NVMe SSDs
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Industry analyst firm IDC expects NVMe unit shipments to reach
more than 79 percent of the market by 20231. With advancements in
multi-core, multi-threaded CPUs, legacy storage technology has
become a bottleneck to maximum application performance.
Shipping in early CQ2 2020, the new WD Gold NVMe SSDs will be
available in four capacities to channel partners and end customers.
The WD Gold NVMe SSD is designed to be the primary storage in
servers delivering superior response times, higher throughput and
greater scale than existing SATA devices for enterprise
applications. WD Gold NVMe SSDs complement recently launched WD
Gold HDDs by providing a high-performance storage tier for
applications and data sets that requires low latency or high
throughput.
The new WD Gold NVMe SSDs are designed with Western Digital’s
silicon-to-system expertise, from its 3D TLC NAND SSD media to its
purpose-built firmware and own integrated controller. Customers
have the high reliability for peace of mind that power-loss and
data-path protection provide, as well as an extended five-year
limited warranty. Secure boot and secure erase provide customers
with additional data-management protections.
“Pick any industry - the world is being transformed by data.
There is transformation and innovation happening across many IT
fronts, and across virtually every industry, large and small, and
it's all driven by data,” said Phil Bullinger, senior vice
president and general manager, Data Center Business at Western
Digital. “Transitioning to NVMe is fundamental to unlocking the
performance potential of high-speed storage media, enabling new
applications, use cases and workloads. The addition of WD Gold NVMe
SSDs to our currently shipping high-capacity WD Gold HDDs means
channel partners and customers have expanded, robust options to
achieve faster time-to-value.”
Western Digital's data center solutions address a variety of
needs in a fast-moving and ever-changing data technology landscape.
Its broad data center portfolio includes its family of Ultrastar®
HDDs and SSDs; WD Gold HDDs and SSDs; OpenFlex™ NVMe over Fabrics
(NVMe-oF™) open composable infrastructure; Ultrastar JBOF/JBOD
storage platforms; NVMe-oF bridge solutions; and the Ultrastar
memory extension drive.
About Western Digital
Western Digital creates environments for data to thrive. As a
leader in data infrastructure, the company is driving the
innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access and
transform an ever-increasing diversity of data. Everywhere data
lives, from advanced data centers to mobile sensors to personal
devices, our industry-leading solutions deliver the possibilities
of data. Our data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western
Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk®, and WD® brands.
1Worldwide Solid State Drive Forecast Update, 2019–2023 (Dec
2019, IDC Doc #US44492119)
© 2020 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights
reserved.
Western Digital, the Western Digital logo, OpenFlex, Ultrastar
and WD Gold are registered trademarks or trademarks of Western
Digital Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other
countries. The NVMe and NVMe-oF word marks are trademarks of NVM
Express, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective
owners. Product specifications subject to change without notice.
Pictures shown may vary from actual products. Not all products are
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Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including the expected availability, benefits, capabilities,
capacity, performance, speed and/or other features of the WD Gold
NVMe SSD. There are a number of risks and uncertainties that may
cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate including,
among others: changes to specifications from standards
organizations, volatility in global economic conditions; business
conditions and growth in the storage ecosystem; impact of
competitive products and pricing; market acceptance and cost of
commodity materials and specialized product components; actions by
competitors; unexpected advances in competing technologies; our
development and introduction of products based on new technologies
and expansion into new data storage markets; risks associated with
acquisitions, divestitures, mergers and joint ventures;
difficulties or delays in manufacturing; and other risks and
uncertainties listed in the company's filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, including the company's most recently
filed periodic report, to which your attention is directed. You
should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking
statements, which speak only as of the date hereof, and the company
undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements
to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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Heather Davis Western Digital Product Communications
949-672-7920 heather.davis@wdc.com
T. Peter Andrew Western Digital Investor Relations
1-800-695-6399 peter.andrew@wdc.com investor@wdc.com
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