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Western Digital and Ingrasys Establish Long-term Collaboration to Deliver High-Performance, Fabric-Attached Disaggregated Storage for AI Workflows
SAN JOSE, Calif. & TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (Computex 2025) – Western Digital (Nasdaq: WDC) and Ingrasys, a subsidiary of Foxconn Technology Group,
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[{"type":"text","content":" SAN JOSE, Calif. & TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\n(Computex 2025) – Western Digital (Nasdaq: WDC) and Ingrasys, a subsidiary of Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, today announced a strategic collaboration to deliver a new flagship Top-of-Rack (TOR) switch with embedded storage. This new TOR EBOF (Ethernet Bunch of Flash) will provide distributed storage at the network edge for lower latency storage access, reducing the need for separate storage networks and avoiding trips to centralized storage arrays. In this joint effort, Ingrasys will manufacture the high-density TOR EBOF, leveraging Western Digital's RapidFlex™ NVMe-oF™ bridge technology. Western Digital will collaborate with Ingrasys on the architecture and lead the go-to-market efforts to promote NVMe-oF disaggregated storage solutions for cloud service providers (CSPs) and storage OEMs.\n\nThis collaboration marks a significant milestone in the rapidly expanding AI market, accelerating the adoption of fabric-attached disaggregated storage to meet the ever-growing demands of AI workflows. By combining Ingrasys’ world-class manufacturing capabilities expertise in GPU servers, and Western Digital’s expertise in NVMe-oF and fabric-attached storage, the two companies are enabling more flexible disaggregated infrastructure that unlocks new levels of efficiency, scalability, and performance for data centers tackling the challenges of AI at scale.\n\nThe Ingrasys TOR EBOF, targeted for 2027 availability, represents a cutting-edge integration of networking and storage technologies. This innovative TOR switch features embedded storage capabilities enabled by Western Digital's next-generation RapidFlex Fabric bridge device supporting 100G Ethernet and NVMe™/PCIe® Gen6 drive slots for E3.S/L SSD devices. At its core, the TOR switch is powered by the NVIDIA Spectrum™-4 switch ASIC, ensuring high-performance switching. The switch also offers flexibility with 400/800GbE cabling options making it a robust solution for future data center needs.\n\nWestern Digital's RapidFlex NVMe-oF fabric bridge device is a pioneering solution in fabric-attached storage, offering low-power, extreme performance and flexibility for modern data centers. As the only NVMe-oF bridge device that is based on extensive levels of hardware acceleration and removes firmware ...