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Western Digital — CompuForum (June 2019)
19 slides from Western Digital's conference presentation, June 2019
Slide 1: Welcome the Zettabyte Era: The Evolution of Data Center Storage
Welcome the Zettabyte Era The Evolution of Data Center Storage Eyal Bek Vice President, Data Center and Client Computing Western Digital June 2019 ©2019 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Slide 2: Forward-Looking Statements
Forward-Looking Statements Safe Harbor | Disclaimers This presentation contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, statements regarding our data center products and technologies, expectations regarding data usage and storage, our business
Slide 3: Data is Transforming the World
Data is Transforming the World Home City Medical Industrial Agriculture Transportation Mobile Home Adaptive Genomics Supply Chain Crop Yield Precision Personalized Content Infrastructure Research Optimization Optimization Navigation Recommendations Sharing The volume, velocity, and value of data are
Slide 4: The Data Center Must Evolve
The Data Center Must Evolve 350M - video streaming users in China 694K hours - video streamed on Netflix in one minute 5.5M - views on YouTube and Twitch in one minute 82% - of IP traffic will be video by 2022 (Cisco VNI)* 2020 80% will have more data 5x of all data will be stored in public clouds d
Slide 5: Data Center Storage Growth
Data Center Storage Growth Estimated Price Curves 2018 2023 (log scale) NVMe™ SSD ~6.5x SATA SSD HDD/SSD Exabytes exabytes 10K HDD ~2x cost SSD/10K ~10x cost Cap HDD SSD/HDD Capacity HDD Data Center SSD 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Capacity HDDs and SSDs will continue to complement each other Source: We
Slide 6: Preparing for the Next Storage Evolution
Preparing for the Next Storage Evolution SCALE SCALABILITY FLEXIBILITY PERFORMANCE ©2019 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 6
Slide 7: An Evolution of Capacity-Optimized HDDs
An Evolution of Capacity-Optimized HDDs HelioSeal – SMR – ePMR 2021 2020 Capacity Increase 2018 ePMR - Energy assisted PMR recording ePMR (Energy Assisted PMR) technology progression provides capacity, while minimizing risk. ©2019 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 7
Slide 8: Scalability – Form Meets Function in EDSFF
Scalability – Form Meets Function in EDSFF Data Center SSD Exabytes Storage (Western Digital Estimate) 300 250 200 150 Compute 100 50 0 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Proliferating capacity points, form factors, and endurance levels to match specific needs for edge, cloud compute and storage. ©2019 W
Slide 9: Preparing for the Next Storage Evolution
Preparing for the Next Storage Evolution SCALE SCALABILITY FLEXIBILITY PERFORMANCE ePMR Form to Function ©2019 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 9
Slide 10: Flexibility – Enabling SMR at Cloud Scale
Flexibility – Enabling SMR at Cloud Scale • Host-based SMR delivers maximum HDD Data Center HDD Exabytes* capacity density at technology point 100% SMR • Unprecedented adoption rate • Wide hardware, software, and application support CMR 0% CY18 CY19 CY20 CY21 CY22 CY23 Customers and the ecosystem ha
Slide 11: Flexibility – Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) NVMe SSDs
Flexibility – Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) NVMe SSDs • Working with NVMe consortium for standards-based approach • Reduce Write Amplification • Zone-based sequential write model • Lower Overprovisioning • Host assisted garbage collection • Improve latency outliers • Leverages SMR software stack Zoned Name
Slide 12: Preparing for the Next Storage Evolution
Preparing for the Next Storage Evolution SCALE SCALABILITY FLEXIBILITY PERFORMANCE ePMR SMR Form to Function Zoned Namespace ©2019 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 12
Slide 13: Performance – Dual Actuator HDDs
Performance – Dual Actuator HDDs > + Dual Single Single • Lower Total Cost of Acquisition (TCA) based on shared components • Lower power vs. 2X drives* • Higher capacity HDDs for IOPS-constrained users Resetting the IOPS/TB access-density graph and providing performance of nearly two drives in singl
Slide 14: Performance – NVMe Flash as Application Memory
Performance – NVMe Flash as Application Memory • Cost-effective scaling of RAM resources • Transparent to applications • Optimized for: • In-Memory Databases • Commercial and Open Source DB • Virtualization Near DRAM performance for large in-memory workloads ©2019 ©2019 Western Western DigitalDigita
Slide 15: Solutions Driving Storage Evolution
Solutions Driving Storage Evolution SCALE SCALABILITY FLEXIBILITY PERFORMANCE ePMR SMR Dual Actuator Form to Function Zoned Flash as Memory Namespaces ©2019 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 15
Slide 16: Collaboration
Collaboration Developers Standards Bodies Operating System Storage and Memory CPU/GPU ©2019 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 16
Slide 17: Collaborating with Customers to Define Next-Generation Architectures
Collaborating with Customers to Define Next-Generation Architectures and New Business Models at Scale MySQLTM DB Apache Cassandra® NoSQL Low latency (NVMe SSD) Capacity HDD and Caching SSD Millions of users Billions Location services Analytics batch Machine learning of trips dispatch/payment process
Slide 18: Scale Flexibility Performance Collaboration
Scale Flexibility Performance Collaboration Western Digital continues to innovate to help solve data growth storage and data process with efficient SSDs and HDDs Western Digital, the Western Digital logo, and Ultrastar are registered trademarks ©2019 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. Al
Slide 19: Western Digital Wants to Work with You for the Zettabyte Age
Western Digital Wants to Work with You for the Zettabyte Age • Ramping 64/96 Layer NAND – In-house development, from controller to NAND • Toshiba and Western Digital Joint Venture – Joint Investment: K1 manufacturing facility near Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, Japan – Commitment over next 15 years* •