New Ultrastar Edge servers, including a rugged
MIL-spec version, reduce latency and improve bandwidth, enabling
organizations to easily transport, deploy, secure and analyze data
in real-time
Providing the foundation for the world’s essential data
infrastructure, Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced the
availability of its new high-performance Ultrastar® Edge server
family that brings compute closer to where data is generated for
faster processing, lower latency and real-time decision making,
even when disconnected.
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Western Digital's Ultrastar Edge Server
and Ultrastar Edge MR, a militarized, ruggedized version.
High-performance servers for faster processing, lower latency, and
real-time decision making even in harsh environments with limited
or no network connectivity. (Photo: Business Wire)
With the growing adoption of 5G, IoT and the cloud, businesses
and consumers expect super-fast performance with their
applications. This is creating demand for new, distributed
intelligent architectures outside of core data centers to help
ingest, analyze and transform data at the edge. In addition,
organizations are running applications in extremely remote
locations, such as deserts, seas or jungles, and are driving the
need for ruggedized compute and storage where networks can be
expensive, intermittent or nonexistent.
Designed for cloud service providers, telcos and system
integrators, Western Digital’s Ultrastar Edge servers are easy to
transport, deploy and scale in the field, at colocation (colo)
facilities, in a factory, or in remote data centers. The new family
includes the Ultrastar Edge-MR, an extremely rugged, stackable and
transportable server for military and specialized field teams
working in harsh remote environments, and the Ultrastar Edge, a
transportable 2U rack-mountable server with a portable case for
colos and edge data centers. Both solutions are now sampling and
orderable with general availability beginning CQ4 2021.
“More compute capacity is needed at edge locations as
latency-sensitive applications are proliferating. We expect server
deployments at edge locations to double through 2024, totaling an
estimated five million units as they are an essential component in
enabling new innovations and products, cloud services, remote
campuses, CDNs, and virtually any vertical industry that relies on
IoT, sensor or remote data,” said Manoj Sukumaran, senior analyst,
Data Center Compute at Omdia. “In the world of 5G and IoT, compute
must happen at the edge – closer to devices, end-users and the
machines that are generating the data – as latency and bandwidth
are essential factors for success. We’re glad to see Western
Digital enter the market as the industry needs reliable products
from vendors they can trust.”
“As a storage technology leader, we’re constantly looking ahead
and anticipating how we’ll continue to serve our customers’ needs,”
said Kurt Chan, vice president, data center platforms at Western
Digital. “The growth in data creation at the edge, the
opportunities to extract value from that data, and the total
available markets and customers innovating and doing work at the
edge, gives us a great opportunity for our new Ultrastar Edge
server family.”
The Ultrastar Edge-MR is an extremely rugged, stackable solution
that is designed and tested in accordance with MIL-STD-810G-CHG-1
standards for limits of shock and vibration, and to the
MIL-STD-461G standard for electromagnetic interference. The unit is
also rated IP32 to provide ingress protection against water and
debris. Whether conducting a military operation, doing research in
the Amazon, or analyzing data during oil and gas explorations, the
Ultrastar Edge-MR can handle extremes. Both Ultrastar Edge
solutions also feature the Trusted Platform Module 2.0, a
tamper-evident enclosure and is built to meet FIPS 140-2 Level 2
security standard to help store, secure, transfer and disseminate
sensitive data.
"From healthcare to intelligence missions, it's critical for the
federal government and its agencies to gather information quickly,
and deliver insight when and where it's needed, including at the
network's edge," said Jeff Johnson, co-founder, Aeon Computing.
"We're thrilled to have the new Ultrastar Edge-MR server in our
arsenal, as meeting these stringent military specs is no small
feat. We can now deliver a secure, rugged solution that brings the
power of the cloud to virtually any edge or tactical environment
around the world."
The core of each Ultrastar Edge solution is a durable,
high-speed server that supports up to 40 cores with two 2nd Intel®
Xeon® Scalable Processors, an NVIDIA® T4 GPU and eight Ultrastar
NVMe™ SSDs providing up to 61TB of storage. This unique combination
delivers blazing speeds and capacity for real-time analytics, AI,
deep learning, ML training and inference, and video transcoding at
the edge. It features two 50Gb or one 100Gb Ethernet connection for
sending critical data back to the cloud or data center when
connected.
Related Western Digital resources:
- Blog – Living on the Edge
- Product Brief – Ultrastar Edge
- Product Brief – Ultrastar Edge-MR
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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. Western Digital data-centric solutions are comprised of
the Western Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk® and WD® brands.
One terabyte (TB) is equal to one trillion bytes. Actual user
capacity may be less due to operating environment.
Western Digital, the Western Digital logo, and Ultrastar are
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or its affiliates in the US and/or other countries. Intel and Xeon
are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S.
and/or other countries. NVIDIA and Tesla are registered trademarks
of NVIDA Corporation. The NVMe word mark is a trademark of NVM
Express, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective
owners. Product specifications subject to change without notice.
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