Western Digital

Cloud

Field sales alignment brings WDC into Komprise Series C Funding round as strategic investor

February 4, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Field sales alignment brings WDC into Komprise Series C Funding round as strategic investor
Komprise, which sells entirely through the channel, has been growing their footprint by 600 per cent in existing customers, and last year doubled their revenues every quarter.

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Servers

Western Digital enters in-memory computing segment with software-defined Memory Extension Drive

November 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Western Digital enters in-memory computing segment with software-defined Memory Extension Drive
The first Western Digital offering for this space is the Ultrastar DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive, which augments physical DRAM with between 4x-8x in memory capacity. It will be available to all WD channel partners.

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Storage

Komprise adds full file integrity to data access from any tier across on-prem and cloud

October 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Komprise adds full file integrity to data access from any tier across on-prem and cloud
In addition to expanding their capability for the customer to access file data in object clouds, Komprise announced support for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

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Data Centre

Western Digital looks to remake both its own image – and the data centre of the future

June 29, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Western Digital looks to remake both its own image – and the data centre of the future
Western Digital is looking to drive massive change on two fronts. They are emphasizing their strong enterprise data centres today, and that the company is about far more than low-cost JBODs and consumer drives. They are also emphasizing their ability to play a key role in driving the technology of he data centre of the future.

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Storage

Tegile sees massive new partner, sales opportunities from joining Western Digital

August 31, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tegile sees massive new partner, sales opportunities from joining Western Digital
Tegile also pledged that the channel commitment will remain the same as part of WD, and thinks that the deal will be a plus for partners.

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