Western Digital's Memory Drive Powers AMD's EPYC Processors
Zacks Investment Research | Apr 01, 2019 10:25PM ET
Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:WDC) recently announced collaboration with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) in a bid to offer high-performance cost-effective memory solution aimed at real-time analytics, in-memory databases and time-sensitive workloads.
AMD EPYC processors will be integrated with Western Digital’s Ultrastar DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive. This combination is anticipated to deliver robust storage solutions to accelerate enterprise applications on cloud platforms.
Western Digital unveiled Ultrastar DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive last year in October to enhance overall drive capacity, reliability and performance. The drive is compatible with PCIe-device, and provides high computing experience and caters to the need for greater workloads and architectures.
The expanded capacity of the Ultrastar memory drive with AMD EPYC processors will improve demand for the HDDs among large enterprises, small and medium size businesses (SMBs) and creative professionals. Together with Western Digital’s low-latency and high-performance NVMe platforms, the collaboration is well poised to deliver scalable and durable cloud storage solutions.
Further, the companies aspire to provide cloud object storage solution with petabyte capacity to accelerate high performance computing (HPC) and machine learning (ML) processes.
Notably, SAP, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) , Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) are few companies that utilize the Ultrastar memory drive for their in-memory database engines. These contracts are helping Western Digital rapidly penetrate the memory market.
According to Western Digital, “AMD EPYC processor-based servers, combined with Ultrastar memory drives, can greatly increase the amount of overall memory per server to provide more cost-effective data center infrastructure for in-memory applications.”
We believe new initiatives to enhance its data center storage portfolio are likely to aid the company in reviving fortunes and improving competitive position against other storage players in the market. Notably, shares of Western Digital have returned 33.4% in the year to date period, outperforming the Original post
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