Western Digital (HGST) Named a Challenger in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage
October 29, 2018
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that Western Digital
(HGST) has been recognized as a Challenger in the 2018 Gartner Magic
Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.
“Object storage adoption is rapidly expanding as companies look to not
only preserve and protect data but increasingly derive greater strategic
value from it through analytics and machine learning,” said Phil
Bullinger, senior vice president and general manager, Data Center
Systems Business Unit, Western Digital. “The volume, velocity and
variety of unstructured data generated today are dramatically
challenging the scalability and efficiency of traditional data center
architectures. Our ActiveScale™ object storage systems have proven to
deliver outstanding scalability, performance and resiliency at unmatched
TCO value in some of the largest and most challenging on-premises
deployments in the industry. By taking advantage of our easy-to-deploy
ActiveScale object storage systems, our customers are shifting their
focus from infrastructure to driving greater insight and value into
their businesses.”
Western Digital ActiveScale
Western Digital’s ActiveScale system represents the next-generation of
object storage for simplified data management and improved storage
economics for managing petabyte-scale unstructured data growth. Enabling
private or hybrid cloud environments, the ActiveScale system helps
customers implement a “Data Forever” architecture that delivers seamless
scalability and extreme data durability required for long-term data
storage across generations of hardware and software technology. Its new
Unified Data Access capabilities provide ingest and management of data
in traditional file system format and for improving storage usage in
environments with mixed file and object use cases.
With one of the largest, object-storage technology
alliance partner ecosystems in the industry, Western Digital
delivers innovation and flexibility to end users, providing integrated
solutions that help simplify deployment and accelerate time to value.
Its comprehensive solution ecosystem, with leading and certified,
independent software vendors (ISVs), target a variety of market
segments, including healthcare/life sciences, media and entertainment,
telecommunications and financial services. Use cases include data
collaboration, data lakes, and digital repositories for media workflows,
analytics, machine learning, IoT, and tape and legacy NAS consolidation
in backup and archive workloads.
Come visit Western Digital at the 2018 Gartner
IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference,
December 3-6 in Las Vegas (Booth #209). On Wednesday, December 5 at 9:15
am PT, join Phil Bullinger, senior vice president and general manager of
Western Digital’s Data Center Systems business unit, as he will be
sharing insights on “Creating
the Next Generation of Data-Driven Infrastructure.”
The ActiveScale system complements Western Digital’s full data center
portfolio, including ActiveScale,
IntelliFlash™,
OpenFlex™,
Ultrastar®
platforms, and its family of Ultrastar
data center-class HDDs and SSDs.
Now available, the ActiveScale family starts at 864TB1 raw
capacity and can scale to 63PB in a single namespace. For more
information, visit: https://www.hgst.com/products/systems.
View a complimentary copy of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed
File Systems and Object Storage at: http://www.westerndigital.com/gartner-MQ-DFOS.
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage,
Julia Palmer | Raj Bala | John McArthur, 18 October 2018.
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About Western Digital
Western Digital creates environments for data to thrive. 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. Western Digital® data-centric solutions are marketed under the
G-Technology™, HGST, SanDisk®, Tegile™, Upthere™, and WD® brands.
1One terabyte (TB) equals one trillion bytes
and one petabyte (PB) equals 1,000TB when referring to storage capacity.
Usable capacity will vary from the raw capacity due to object storage
methodologies and other factors.
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statements regarding the applications, benefits, capabilities, features
and performance of Western Digital’s ActiveScale product. There are a
number of risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking
statements to be inaccurate including, among others: 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
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or delays in manufacturing; and other risks and uncertainties listed in
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the information in this release in the event facts or circumstances
change after the date of this release.
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