Tuesday, August 7, 2018

WD Named A Visionary In The 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant

Western Digital Corp. today announced that Western Digital (Tegile) was recognized as a Visionary in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays for the fourth year in a row.

"We believe that our position as a Visionary in this Gartner Magic Quadrant is a testament to the exceptional customer value that IntelliFlash™, our award-winning portfolio of solid-state arrays, delivers in the market,” said Narayan Venkat, vice president of marketing, Western Digital’s Data Center Systems business unit. “We are investing heavily in our data center systems business to expand our NVMe™ and high-density all-flash array offerings, and accelerate innovation in data management for various Big Data and Fast Data applications in the enterprise, including real-time analytics, machine learning and AI.”

As part of the Western Digital family of brands, IntelliFlash all-flash arrays leverage the power of the company’s Symbiotics Design™ approach. This unique approach enables innovation and optimization across multiple technologies and software and hardware design points - from silicon to devices to systems - to deliver breakthrough value in workload acceleration for a full range of data-centric applications.