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What does your brain have in common with AI? 🧠 Our CPO Ahmed Shihab explains how, just like your brain’s memory, AI is a data system that compounds over time. The difference? AI won't forget what you ate for breakfast this morning.

The countdown is almost over. At COMPUTEX 2026, WD will showcase how AI is powered in the real world through storage systems built to perform at scale. From infrastructure to execution, this is where it all comes together. Stay tuned as we unveil what’s next in the AI era at Computex from June 2–5, 2026. 📍 WD Booth R1308 | Hall 2, 4/F Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Hall 2 (TaiNEX 2)

AI at scale is transforming storage architecture by driving the demand for performance and economics. Modern AI workloads depend on a multi-tier storage system in which both SSDs and HDDs play a distinct and indispensable role. Ahmed Shihab, Chief Product Officer at WD, will be speaking at the COMPUTEX forum session “Reinventing Storage for AI at Scale,” on the architecture choices scaling teams need right now. 📅 June 4, 2026, 11am - 11.25am 📍Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center 📍Hall 2 (TaiNEX 2), 7F

Last week, we had the privilege of bringing together some of our partners for a day at The Course at Wente Vineyards. Golf, connection, and conversation — surrounded by leaders who remind us every day why relationships are at the core of everything we do. From coaching sessions on the course to lunch and meaningful dialogue, it was a reminder that the best partnerships are built on more than business. Thank you to every guest who joined us. We're already looking forward to next time.

We surveyed hyperscalers, cloud providers, enterprises, distributors, and infrastructure leaders across the globe to better understand how AI infrastructure priorities are evolving. The results point to a major shift happening across the industry: AI infrastructure is becoming more and more focused on building systems that can sustainably manage data growth at scale. Because while compute gets reused, AI data persists and grows. Dive deeper into the findings: https://lnkd.in/gQinCycK

Quantum computing may be a future security threat—but the time to act is now.🔒 At WD, data center security is always top of mind. That’s why our new Ultrastar enterprise HDDs ship with hardware-level post-quantum cryptography (PQC) built in. Read more about how we’re readying enterprise storage for the quantum threat 📘 https://lnkd.in/gicTBmgg

We’re proud to share some exciting news. WD has been named to the 2026 S&P Global Dow Jones Best-in-Class (DJ BIC) Index North America for the first time. This inclusion recognizes WD as a top sustainability leader among the 600 largest North American companies in the S&P Global Broad Market Index. In the Technology Hardware & Equipment industry, we're one of just seven U.S. companies selected—a validation of our strong practices and trusted disclosures across environmental, social, governance, and economic pillars. Together with our CDP A- score earlier this year, these recognitions reflect our commitment to our sustainability journey and leadership. Learn more about our work in the FY2025 Annual Sustainability Report: https://lnkd.in/gEZRFZzu

People often use “memory” and “storage” interchangeably in AI conversations—but they play very different roles in AI infrastructure. Memory processes data in the moment. Storage preserves data over time. That distinction matters more than ever as AI systems scale and data becomes the defining constraint. In this short video, WD CPO Ahmed Shihab explains why understanding the relationship between memory and storage is foundational to designing AI systems for performance, durability, and long-term growth. Because AI data centers aren’t just compute environments. They’re data systems.

In AI infrastructure, memory and storage are often discussed together—but they solve fundamentally different problems. Memory is optimized for speed and active computation. Storage is optimized for durability, scale, and data integrity. As AI workloads grow, understanding that distinction becomes critical to designing systems that can scale efficiently. Because AI data centers aren’t just compute environments. They’re data systems. https://lnkd.in/gtkcEz2H

Congratulations to our Chief Technology Officer, Xiaodong Che (Carl), on being named Executive of the Year by the Asian American Engineer of the Year award (AAEOY). 🎉 With more than 30 years of innovation in data storage—from helium-based drives to Ultra-SMR technology now deployed across hyperscale cloud platforms—his work has helped build the infrastructure that powers the modern AI era.