Western Digital (WD) is a computer hard disk drive manufacturer and data storage company. It designs, manufactures, and sells data technology products, including storage devices, data center systems, and cloud storage services. Tareq Husseini, Senior Sales Director – META, WD talks about the company’s enterprise-storage products.

Speak about the latest products of Western Digital for enterprise customers

At Western Digital we are constantly working to help address the capacity and analytical needs of the industry, as well as support the evolving economics of data centers, NAS, and smart video customers for decades to come. Our newly introduced 22TB drives are built to help our customers efficiently store and access huge volumes of data while offering cost efficiencies and low TCO. We offer the world’s first 22TB CMR HDDs, which are now available in the region. Western Digital WD Gold is the preferred choice for IT/data center channel customers.

Describe the competencies of WD’s SSDs than that of its competitors

Western Digital has launched a new family of high-capacity SSDs to give cloud customers the ability to manage, scale, and provision infrastructures with high-capacity, low TCO, and better QoS consistency. This allows them to provide flexible cloud services that can adapt and scale to the changing demands of the digital world around us.

• The new Ultrastar DC SN650 NVMe SSD family includes a 2.5-inch form-factor for traditional infrastructure and the slimmer, ruler E1.L form-factor, both with capacities up to 15.36TB
• The Ultrastar DC SN640 NVMe SSD is a mainstream NVMe SSD targeting broad deployment as boot, caching, or primary storage in data center IT and cloud environments.
• Ultrastar DC SN840 extends Western Digital’s leadership in dual-port architecture by vertically integrating proven flash controllers. Dual-port high availability supports two redundant paths to the SSD and is critical to ensuring access to data in the event of a failure in the data path.

Are you planning to present products or solutions at the GITEX Technology Week? If so, which are they?

Western Digital will have our range of data solutions available from WD, SanDisk, and WD_BLACK, as well as our more recently launched products which include:

• The new 22TB CMR HDDs
• The WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe SSD

Moreover, we will be displaying our latest range of premium storage solutions under the SanDisk Professional portfolio designed to empower professional content creators around the world. The range of products promises to deliver scalable, high-performance, reliable solutions across industries globally.

Discuss WD’s prospective regional plans for the remainder of 2022 and strategies for 2023.

WD has over two decades of presence in the local market, and in that time we have established on-ground teams, made extensive local investments, and aligned our offerings with our reseller partners and distributors. WD understands that the next few years will be an exciting time for smart technology providers in the Middle East. The market is growing, and consumers are excited about what’s coming next, but a lack of knowledge around smart technology infrastructure threatens this progress and the gains that will go with it.

We are prepared to support the growing digital needs of companies and consumers with specialized storage solutions to create optimum value from IoT data, which must be considered when building out the wider data infrastructure.