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2018

April 18, 2018
Western Digital Continues To Drive Capacity And Improve TCO For Cloud And Enterprise Data Centers
April 04, 2018
Western Digital Enables the Evolution of Modern Workflows at NAB 2018
March 27, 2018
Western Digital Provides Cost-Effective, Hybrid-Cloud Backup and Recovery Solution with StorReduce Software for Enterprises
January 18, 2018
Western Digital Expands Mid-Range Enterprise Hard Drive Offerings For On-Premises Big Data Environments

2017

December 06, 2017
Western Digital Announces "State Of Object Storage" Survey; Shows >90 Percent Moving To Object Storage
November 29, 2017
HGST, A Western Digital Brand, Recognized By Gartner As A Niche Player In The Magic Quadrant For Distributed File Systems And Object Storage
November 20, 2017
Western Digital To Demonstrate How It Is Disrupting The Economics Of Data With Hybrid Workflows At AWS re:Invent 2017
November 13, 2017
Western Digital Expands Solutions In Life Sciences Through Partnership With Globus To Connect Massive Data To The Researchers Who Need It
October 03, 2017
Western Digital’s World’s First 14TB Enterprise Hard Disk Drives Provide Cloud And Hyperscale Data Centers Big Data Capacity
September 26, 2017
Western Digital Introduces ActiveScale™, Facilitating A Data Forever Architecture
September 18, 2017
Despicable Me and Minions Animation Studio Builds Next Level Infrastructure With Avere Systems and HGST, a Western Digital Brand
May 22, 2017
HGST, A Western Digital Brand, Addresses The Data Demands Of The Life Sciences Industry At Every Step Of Data Analysis, From Collaboration and Research To Data Archive
May 16, 2017
Western Digital Sets New Standard With Latest Generation In Popular HGST-Brand Ultrastar SAS SSD Family
April 26, 2017
Western Digital Ships Fourth-Generation Helium Hard Drive Platform With Ultrastar He12 12TB Advanced Storage Hard Drives
April 19, 2017
HGST, A Western Digital Brand, Provides Storage Products And Solutions That Support Every Stage Of The Workflow For The Media And Entertainment Industry
March 07, 2017
Western Digital’s Hgst Branded System Archives One Of The World’s Largest Collections Of Live Jazz Music, Preserving And Enabling On-Demand Access To Historic Performances

2016

December 06, 2016
Western Digital To Provide Strategic Update At 2016 Investor Day
December 06, 2016
Western Digital Unveils Advanced Storage Platform Technology For Ultra High-performance “Fast Data” Cloud Scale Applications
December 06, 2016
Western Digital Introduces Advanced Storage Devices To Manage Evolving Data Center Application Demands
November 15, 2016
Western Digital Expands Next-Generation Data Center Storage Family For @Scale Cloud And Enterprise Markets
October 17, 2016
Western Digital Addresses Increasing Application Workload Demands For Vmware Environments With New Certifications of Two SSDs
October 13, 2016
Western Digital Ships More Than 10 Million Helium-filled Hdds
October 06, 2016
PANASAS and WESTERN DIGITAL collaborate to speed research discovery with comprehensive storage and data management
September 06, 2016
Western Digital And Scale Logic Deliver Petabyte-scale Solution To Store, Access And Manage Media Content Repository Applications
August 29, 2016
Western Digital Corporation Broadens Portfolio of Solutions for VMware Storage Environments With HGST-branded Ultrastar SN150 PCIe NVMe SSD
August 23, 2016
Western Digital Delivers Foundation For OvationData, Enabling Cloud-scale Solution For The Media & Entertainment And Oil & Gas Industry
June 14, 2016
Western Digital Corporation And CTERA Partner To Transform Enterprise File Services, File Collaboration And Data Protection
June 06, 2016
Western Digital Corporation Presents Innovative Storage Solutions at Cloud Expo 2016 New York
April 19, 2016
Western Digital Corp, Veritas Deliver Private Cloud Backup Solution Providing Cost-effective Active Retention For Critical Business Data
April 18, 2016
Western Digital Corp. Extends Reach Into Media And Entertainment Market Through Key Industry Alliances
April 11, 2016
HGST Delivers Flexible Scaling Object Storage System for Anytime, Anywhere Access to Data
April 04, 2016
Western Digital Corporation Joins iRODS Consortium To Help Advance Adoption Of Cloud Storage Architectures
March 21, 2016
Western Digital Corp. Provides Massively Scalable Object Storage for Revera Vault Cloud Storage Offering
February 02, 2016
Western Digital Corporation, Avere Systems Enable A New Class of Massively Scalable Storage For Private And Hybrid Clouds
January 20, 2016
Reliability Ranks #1 As Most Important Factor In Enterprise Storage Purchasing

2015

December 10, 2015
Western Digital Corporation Joins Active Archive Alliance To Push For Always-on Data Access
December 02, 2015
Western Digital Corporation Is Now Shipping World’s First Helium-filled 10TB PMR HDD To Meet Exponential Growth In Data
November 30, 2015
Western Digital Corp. Demonstrates Affordable, Cloud-Scale HGST Object Storage System At Gartner Data Center Conferences 2015
September 28, 2015
HGST, Commvault Enable Simple Scale Out Enterprise-Class Cloud Backup and Data Management Solution
August 18, 2015
Supermassive Black Hole Data Captured On HGST Helioseal® Helium-Filled HDDs
August 07, 2015
HGST Research Demonstrates Breakthrough Persistent Memory Fabric at Flash Memory Summit 2015
August 07, 2015
HGST to Demo In-Memory Flash Fabric and Lead Discussions on Flash Technologies at Flash Memory Summit
June 09, 2015
HGST Delivers World’s First 10TB Enterprise HDD for Active Archive Applications
May 12, 2015
HGST Delivers Broad VMware Virtual SAN Support for Enterprise and Cloud Data Centers
April 22, 2015
HGST’s Active Archive System Wins Newbay Media Best of Show Award at NAB 2015
April 10, 2015
HGST ships NVM Express Compliant Solid-State Drives with Industry-Leading Performance for Cloud and Enterprise Applications
April 08, 2015
HGST Targets Active Archive Market with Affordable, Simple-to-Scale Object Storage System
March 24, 2015
HGST Helium-Filled HDDs Rise to New Levels; Achieve Industry-Leading Milestone in Field Reliability
March 12, 2015
HGST Previews World’s First 10TB HDD and NVMe-compliant SSDs at OCP U.S. Summit 2015
March 03, 2015
HGST Announces Definite Agreement to Acquire Amplidata
January 21, 2015
HGST and 60East Technologies Crank up the AMPS to Deliver Real-time Data Analytics

2014

December 15, 2014
HGST To Acquire Skyera, Inc.
October 13, 2014
HGST Offers the only Complete Performance and Capacity Storage Portfolio Certified for use with VMware Virtual SAN
September 29, 2014
Data is currency of new economy, but most fail to unlock its full value; HGST survey finds 86% of data center decision-makers surveyed believe that all data has value
September 09, 2014
HGST Unveils Intelligent, Dynamic Storage Solutions To Transform The Data Center
September 09, 2014
HGST Extends Development Agreement with Intel for HGST's Enterprise-Class SAS SSDs
September 09, 2014
HGST Announces NVMe-Compliant PCIe SSDs
August 26, 2014
HGST, a Western Digital® Company Announces Livestream Briefing
August 12, 2014
HGST and NEC Deliver Proven Performance for Scalable SQL Server Appliances
August 04, 2014
HGST Leads the Expanding Enterprise Flash Storage Market with New Offerings for Application Acceleration
August 04, 2014
HGST Research Demonstrates World's Fastest SSD at Flash Memory Summit
July 28, 2014
HGST Expands Enterprise SAS SSD Storage Portfolio for Data-Intensive Application Acceleration
July 09, 2014
HGST Ships Highest-capacity, High-Performing 10K RPM Hard Drive for Mission-Critical 24/7 Data Center Applications
June 09, 2014
Yahoo! Japan Qualifies HGST FlashMAX II™ PCIe SSDS
May 28, 2014
HGST Achieves Oracle Validated Configuration for FlashMAX™ II
May 13, 2014
DataON™ Storage Unveils 12Gb/s Cluster-in-a-Box Shared Storage Appliance
May 13, 2014
SwiftStack and HGST Launch First Public Test Cluster for the OpenStack Community
May 07, 2014
Media Alert: HGST at OpenStack Summit 2014, Booth #D5
April 02, 2014
Buffalo-Launches The Industry’s First Enterprise-Class Nas With HGST Ultrastar® He6 Helium-Filled Drives
February 26, 2014
HGST Ships Fastest, Highest Capacity 15K RPM 12Gb/s SAS Hard Drives for Mission-Critical 24/7 Applications
February 26, 2014
HGST Debuts New Stylish, Colorful Touro™ S Mobile External Hard Drives
February 11, 2014
Media Alert: HGST to Demonstrate Big Data Storage Solutions at O’Reilly Strata Conference, Booth #1100

2013

December 17, 2013
HGST® and MAXX DIGITAL® enable streaming for top movies at RED® STUDIOS Hollywood
November 04, 2013
HGST Ships 6TB Ultrastar® He6 Helium-filled Drives for High-density, Massive Scale-out Data Center Environments
October 30, 2013
Media Alert: HGST to Deliver Keynote, Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Booth #209
October 29, 2013
HGST Ships Record 100 Million 7.0mm 2.5-inch Mobile Hard Drives; Ships New, 1TB, 7.0mm Drive for Capacity-hungry, Ultra-thin Devices
October 28, 2013
Media Alert: HGST at SNW Europe, Booths #128 and #132
October 22, 2013
HGST Provides Solid-State Storage Solutions for Verizon Cloud
October 17, 2013
Western Digital Completes Acquisition of Virident
October 15, 2013
HGST Ships MegaScale DC™ Hard Drive for Low-Workload Applications in Hyperscale or Dynamic Scale-Out Data Centers
October 11, 2013
HGST to Demonstrate Solid-State Storage Solutions for the Enterprise at IP Expo, London
September 30, 2013
HGST Ships New Endurastar® Automotive Hard Drive
September 12, 2013
Western Digital Completes Acquisition of sTec, Inc.
September 09, 2013
Western Digital Expands Enterprise Flash Storage Portfolio with Acquisition of Virident
August 13, 2013
HGST Founds the Storage Products Association (SPA) with Other HDD Makers, to Promote the Storage and Hard Drive Industry
August 12, 2013
HGST to Address SSD Innovation and Storage Best Practices at the Flash Memory Summit 2013
July 10, 2013
Western Digital Acquires VeloBit; HGST to Integrate I/O Optimization Software into its Solid State Drive Portfolio
June 24, 2013
Western Digital to Strategically Expand its Position in Enterprise Solid State Storage With The Acquisition of sTec, inc.; Company to be Fully Integrated into HGST
June 17, 2013
Everything Channel CRN’s Magazine Names Annie Flaig to the “Power 100 Women of the Channel” List
June 13, 2013
Primetime Plus Sponsor HGST to Speak on Best Practices for the (R)evolution in Datacenter Storage at GigaOM Structure 2013
May 21, 2013
HGST Launches the Highest Capacity Hard Drive for the Mainstream Mobile Market
May 14, 2013
Lead Sponsor HGST Discusses Optimizing Storage to Efficiently Handle Increasing Content for Lowest Total Cost of Ownership During Free May 15-16 BrightTALK Data Center Transformation Summit
April 23, 2013
Harvard Clean Energy Project Powered by HGST Enterprise Capacity Hard Drives
April 09, 2013
HGST Launches the Industry's First 12Gb/s SAS Solid State Drives for High-Performance Enterprise Applications and Massive Data Growth
February 28, 2013
HGST Reaches 10-Nanometer Patterned-Bit Milestone, Nanotechnology Process Will Double Today’s Disk Drive Data Density
January 29, 2013
HGST Launches the Industry's Highest Capacity 10K RPM Hard Drive
January 16, 2013
HGST Joins Open Compute Project To Help Define Best Practices For Datacenter Storage
January 07, 2013
HGST Gives Consumers the Industry's First 1TB, 7200 RPM, 2.5-inch Mobile Hard Drive

2012

September 13, 2012
HGST Announces Radically New, Helium-Filled Hard Disk Drive Platform
August 13, 2012
HGST Keynotes and Participates in the Flash Memory Summit 2012
June 03, 2012
HGST Joins the HP ProActive Insight Architecture Alliance
May 14, 2012
HGST Ships A New Family Of 2.5-Inch CinemaStar Hard Drives
May 01, 2012
HGST Demonstrates Industry's First 12Gb/s SAS SSD
April 03, 2012
HGST Ships the World’s First 4TB Enterprise Hard Drive
March 05, 2012
EMC Selects Hitachi GST Enterprise-Class Solid State Drives
February 21, 2012
Hitachi GST Ships Record 25 Million 7mm 2.5-inch Hard Drives; Launches Industry-Leading, Second-Generation 7,200 RPM, 7mm Drive
February 08, 2012
Hitachi GST Ships the Industry's First 25-nanometer SLC NAND Flash Enterprise-class SSDs

2011

December 13, 2011
Hitachi GST Ships The Fastest 10K Hard Drive
December 12, 2011
Hitachi GST Ships Two New 4TB DeskStar-Based Solutions
September 19, 2011
Hitachi GST Announces Innovative Hitachi Ultrastar Solid State Drives Now Shipping in HP 3PAR Storage Arrays for Utility, Cloud Computing
September 06, 2011
Hitachi GST Ships One Terabyte Per Platter Hard Drives
August 09, 2011
Hitachi GST Announces the Industry's Most Advanced Enterprise-Class MLC SSDs
June 09, 2011
Hitachi GST Launches Cloud Storage and Backup Service; First 3GB Free
May 09, 2011
EMC Isilon Leverages Hitachi HDDs to Deliver World's Largest Single File System for Big Data
April 19, 2011
Hitachi GST Extends Your Personal Cloud
March 07, 2011
Western Digital To Acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
January 25, 2011
Hitachi GST Raises The 'Reliability' Bar For 7,200 RPM, 3.5-inch Enterprise Drives
January 20, 2011
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Appoints Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corp Development
January 03, 2011
Hitachi GST Unleashes New CinemaStar Hard Drives For The A/V Market

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