Western Digital recently held the company’s Investor Day announcing a vision and strategy for the future as the planned separation of the company’s Flash business nears its expected completion on February 21, 2025.
CEO Designate Irving Tan reinforced Western Digital’s leadership in delivering world-class, sustainable storage solutions at scale. With a deep legacy in HDD technology and innovation, Western Digital remains the trusted partner for the world’s largest hyperscalers, CSPs and OEMs, delivering cutting-edge solutions at the right time with low total cost of ownership (TCO).
Tan shared Western Digital’s projection on how the proliferation of AI will impact the HDD industry and the value of data stored. As companies generate and store more data, growing use cases such as text-to-image GenAI workloads, text-to-video applications and a rising demand for massive data lakes to fuel AI models are expected to increase HDD exabyte shipments at a 23% CAGR from 2024 to 2028.
To meet this demand today and in the future, Tan announced that the company’s HAMR development is accelerating as testing is underway with two major hyperscale customers. This helps ensure a predictable, scalable economic transition for customers while achieving maximum value as their data center environments evolve.
“The future holds tremendous opportunity, and Western Digital is well-positioned to be the leader in data storage as we meet our customers’ storage needs today and into the future,” concluded Tan.
