First in its Portfolio, New Ultrastar DC ME200
Memory Extension Drive Expands Servers with Memory Capacity for
Real-Time Data Processing, Scaling Databases, Application Caching
and Cloud Services
Supercomputing 2018 (#SC18), Booth #3901 – Western
Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), a data infrastructure leader,
today announced it is extending the breadth and depth of its data
center portfolio into the rapidly evolving in-memory computing
market segment. The new Ultrastar® DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive
is the company’s first product that enables customers to better
optimize in-memory system capacity/performance for running
demanding applications that drive today’s real-time analytics and
business insights.
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Western Digital Ultrastar® DC ME200
Memory Extension Drive - NVMe™ U.2 and AIC HH-HL form factors
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“Today’s requirement for faster analytics, data processing,
cloud services and high-performance computing (HPC) is increasing
demand for in-memory computing across a variety of industries,
including healthcare, telecommunications and IT, and retail,” said
Ashish Nadkarni, group vice president, IDC. “By expanding in-memory
capacity, the Ultrastar memory drive helps alleviate the high cost
of adding extra DRAM, as well as addresses the physical limitations
of available DIMM slots, where scaling is either cost-prohibitive
or nearly impossible.”
“As a storage infrastructure leader, we’re constantly innovating
and delivering solutions that address new ways of capturing,
preserving, accessing and transforming data,” said Mark Grace,
senior vice president of Devices, Western Digital. “The new
Ultrastar memory drive is a natural addition to our world-class
data center portfolio, addressing growing customer demand for
business acceleration and real-time data processing within
in-memory platforms. Leveraging our proven technology leadership,
data center expertise and economies of scale, we are providing a
new paradigm to in-memory computing relative to the size, scale and
cost-effectiveness of the solution.”
The Ultrastar memory drive provides cost-efficient, near-DRAM
performance for companies to expand memory pools sizes up to 8X the
DRAM capacity, while offering substantial CAPEX and OPEX savings.
With larger memory pools, application developers can take advantage
of memory-aware performance and capacity optimizations, and expand
faster data processing across many applications and workloads. The
Ultrastar memory drive is ideal for in-memory applications such as
Redis™, Memcached, Apache Spark™ and large-scale databases,
providing higher capacities over current storage-class memory
products.
The Ultrastar memory drive is drop-in ready and PCIe-device
compatible with most Intel® x86 servers. Available in 1TiB, 2TiB
and 4TiB, the solution requires no modifications to the operating
system, system hardware, firmware or application stacks. For
expandability, a 1U server can typically support up to 24TiB of
system memory using the Ultrastar DC ME200 drive for in-memory
compute clusters. Supported server interfaces are NVMe™ U.2 and
PCIe AIC (add-in-card) HH-HL. Additional product information can be
found here. The Ultrastar memory drive is currently available and
sampling with select customers.
Western Digital Blog: In-Memory Computing – Lifting the
Constraints of Scale
Western Digital at Supercomputing 2018
Western Digital will be showcasing its full range of solutions
for HPC, cloud and analytics at Supercomputing 2018 (Booth #3901),
including its new Ultrastar memory drive, its family of Ultrastar
enterprise-class HDDs and SSDs as well at its ActiveScale™ and
IntelliFlash™ systems, and its OpenFlex™ and Ultrastar
Platforms.
Western Digital is continuing its transformation in a
fast-moving data technology landscape, offering an exceptionally
broad storage portfolio to address diverse needs. As part of this
transformation, the company is unifying its brands to provide
customers with more brand clarity, portfolio flexibility and
simplification of choice. Over the coming months, customers will
see products previously branded as Tegile™ and HGST, as well as
some SanDisk® and WD® commercial and enterprise products,
transition to Western Digital® branding. Visit the company’s new
website at www.westerndigital.com for more information.
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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.
Product specifications subject to change without notice. Not all
products are available in all regions of the world.
Memory capacity is indicated by GiB and TiB and based on binary
values such that one gibibyte (GiB) is equal to 230 bytes and one
tebibyte (TiB) is equal to 1024 GiB (240) bytes. Storage capacity
and endurance are indicated by TB and PB where one PB equals is
1015 bytes. Accessible capacity can vary from stated capacity due
to software, formatting, and other factors.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including the expected availability, applications, benefits,
capabilities, capacities, development, features, market, and
performance of the company’s Ultrastar drives. 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 associated with acquisitions, 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 our most recently
filed periodic report to which your attention is directed. The
company undertakes no obligation to update the information in this
release in the event facts or circumstances change after the date
of this release.
© 2018 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights
reserved. Western Digital, the Western Digital logo, G-Technology,
SanDisk, Tegile, Upthere, WD, ActiveScale, IntelliFlash, OpenFlex,
and Ultrastar are registered trademarks or trademarks of Western
Digital Corporation or its affiliates in the US and/or other
countries. Apache and Apache Spark are either registered trademarks
or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United
States and/or other countries. Redis is a trademark of Redis Labs
Ltd. Any rights therein are reserved to Redis Labs Ltd. Any use by
Western Digital is for referential purposes only and does not
indicate any sponsorship, endorsement or affiliation between Redis
and Western Digital. Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation or
its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other
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