Western Digital today announced six new offerings that will help organizations manage the increasing volume, velocity, variety and longevity of data in today’s rapidly evolving data center. In addition to maintaining its longstanding leadership in storage devices, the new offerings demonstrate HGST’s commitment to transform the data center and itself through hardware and software solutions that elevate the value it provides to partners and customers. By creating innovative solutions that shape the emerging categories of Flash fabric solutions and active archive solutions, HGST is driving the data center evolution by helping organizations readily extract the information, knowledge and wisdom that lies within their data.

Introduces industry’s first server-side Flash clustering and volume management software to transform performance computing and extend leadership of Flash fabric solutions portfolio

Now shipping 8TB HelioSeal™ platform HDDs and areal density leading, air-based 6TB HDDs; Targets Helium ubiquity by 2017 and defines path to 10TB HDD

Announces new NVMe-compliant PCIe SSDs that enable the next wave of application acceleration with unmatched performance and density

Addresses emerging active archive demand with new storage platform that aims to deliver most cost effective, power efficient and highest density solutions for petabyte-scale data centers

Source: Press release.