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Western Digital Fuels Faster Decision Making at the Edge and in Harsh Remote Environments
New Ultrastar Edge servers, including a rugged MIL-spec version, reduce latency and improve bandwidth, enabling organizations to easily transport, deploy,
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nNew 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 \n\n SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nProviding 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.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210615005045/en/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)\nWith 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.\n\nDesigned 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.\n\n“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 the...