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Western Digital Showcases Industry-leading Storage Innovations at Microsoft Ignite 2019
Company Launches Next-Gen Ultrastar SAS SSD for Enterprise Storage and Server Workloads; Joins Western Digital’s Vast Portfolio of Microsoft-Certified
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nCompany Launches Next-Gen Ultrastar SAS SSD for Enterprise Storage and Server Workloads; Joins Western Digital’s Vast Portfolio of Microsoft-Certified Solutions that Help Streamline Data-Intensive and Business-Critical Applications \n\n ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nMicrosoft Ignite 2019, Booth #909 - Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) is at Microsoft Ignite demonstrating how its innovations in SSDs, HDDs and storage server platforms help data center managers and architects deliver scale-out performance and extreme storage density with unmatched TCO for today’s most demanding IT environments. With Western Digital’s expansive lineup, Microsoft enterprise customers can accelerate mission-critical applications and hybrid-cloud workloads, and optimize virtualized, hyperscale and Azure Stack HCI environments to better store, move, process and extract the most value from their data.\n\n\nWHERE: Microsoft Ignite, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL, Booth #909\n\n\nEXHIBIT & NEW PRODUCT INTRODUCTION: Visitors to Western Digital’s booth will experience live demonstrations of the world’s highest capacity HDDs that deliver the best TCO value at scale – the 18TB1 CMR and 20TB SMR Ultrastar® HDDs with energy-assisted recording technology. It is also highlighting its latest Ultrastar 96-layer NVMe™ SSD families and Ultrastar Serv60+8 hybrid storage server, along with their industry-leading Ultrastar Data60 storage enclosure. Additionally, the company is introducing its sixth-generation SAS SSD, the Ultrastar DC SS540, for all-flash arrays (AFAs), caching tiers, high-performance computing (HPC), and software-defined storage (SDS) environments (Blog: SAS Lives On and Here’s Why).\n\n\nDEMO HIGHLIGHTS:\n\n\n\nScale Storage Performance\nWith Ultrastar NVMe, SAS, and edge SSDs and capacity-optimized HDDs for architecting efficient and purpose-built infrastructure to achieve the best TCO in the Zettabyte Era\n\n\n\n\nBalanced Storage Performance for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI\nWith the Ultrastar Serv60+8 performance-optimized hybrid storage server for SDS, SQL Server, VDI, virtualization, edge, Microsoft Office, scale-out storage, and hybrid cloud\n\n\n\n\nExpanded, Affordable Storage Capacity for all Microsoft Environments\nDesigned for high-density and flexibility, the Ultrastar Data60 storage platform supports up to 840TB of disk stora...