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463 Exabytes

The projected volume of data that will be created every day by 2025.1

56%

The share of organizations leveraging analytics that experience faster, more effective decision-making.2

Data is the lifeblood of strategic business decision-making. And it’s being generated everywhere from smart phones, IoT devices, autonomous vehicles, industrial sensors, medical wearables, video surveillance, and other next-gen tech. Storing all this data is one (big) thing, but being able to preserve, access, and gain actionable insights from that data could be what sets your business apart from the rest.

To do that, your data center storage strategy needs to keep pace—whether that means utilizing tiered storage, co-locating compute and data center systems, deploying multicloud environments, taking full advantage of enterprise hard disk drives (HDDs) for large-capacity storage, or using the latest NVMe™ (nonvolatile memory express) innovations. You need to select the right data storage solution based on your unique application requirements, use cases, and workloads. Is your biggest challenge around storing big data? Disruptive lag times when trying to quickly access or analyze data? Scaling efficiently?

Whether you are a large enterprise setting up a private cloud or a small-to-midsize company wanting to securely manage your data on-site, Western Digital data center storage solutions can help you store, optimize, and monetize your data for better business outcomes.

Massive Data Storage Capacity

Big data—or very large datasets used for analysis—is being generated everywhere from IoT, machine sensors, mobile devices, health monitors, and more.

Gain Valuable Insights

Various computations, algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) are used to analyze big data to uncover trends, patterns, and associations that provide valuable insights to help you make better business decisions.

Store More So You Can Do More

To store massive datasets, you need advanced data storage infrastructure that is purpose-built to support critical applications and workloads. Laying the foundation for more effective data centers, Western Digital delivers industry-leading, high-capacity hard drives so you can not only store more data, but also do more with that data.

Fast Data for Fast Decision-Making

Speed is a business imperative. Confidently make game-changing decisions with fast access to your data. Stay ahead of ever-changing market trends and industry competition with the streamlined compute, storage, and network resources you need to scale in real time.

Unlock Data Intelligence

Data analysis can extract insights that lead to better business decisions, efficiencies in productivity and automation, and even bring unexpected value.

Accelerate Your Business

With Western Digital, capture, organize, and access the latest data for critical analytics and enterprise workflows. Our portfolio of high-performance SSD devices can access, read, and write datasets with ultra-low latency so you can respond rather than react to changing needs.

Scaling Efficiently and Effectively

Get the most out of enterprise workflows and applications with data storage solutions designed to store and access data quickly and reliably—even across the largest datasets.

Balance Performance And Capacity

Brave the most demanding data-heavy tasks with storage platforms from Western Digital. Customize your infrastructure to flexibly balance capacity, performance, and cost—and make the most of your data to benefit your business.

Data Center Storage that Drives Performance and Expands Capacity

Western Digital offers an extensive portfolio of enterprise drives and platforms to meet your most demanding data storage needs. Your business is unique—your data infrastructure should be, too. Scale up how much data you can store, boost performance, or both. Select from the following tabs to find the solution that is right for you.

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Disclosures

  1. Source: World Economic Forum “How much data is generated each day?”, accessed January 13, 2022.
  2. Source: MicroStrategy “2020 Global State of Enterprise Analytics”, accessed January 13, 2022.