Western Digital

Western Digital

https://www.westerndigital.com/
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Western Digital, formerly known as Western Digital Corporation, is a publicly owned American company founded in 1970. Headquartered in the United States, it employs approximately 26,400 people. The company specializes in creating data storage solutions, catering to various industries and consumer needs. Western Digital has established itself as a prominent player in the data storage market, offering a wide range of products and services to meet the evolving demands of the digital age.

Revenue

Founded

1970

Headcount

26,396

Headquarters

US

Primary Segment

Computer Hardware Manufacturing

Ownership

Publicly Owned

News Summary:

On February 21, 2024, Western Digital completed the separation of its flash business, retaining its hard-disk drive business. The company appointed Irving Tan as its new chief executive officer on the same day. Tan believes artificial intelligence will benefit the hard-disk drive industry. Reports indicate Western Digital exited the SSD market, ending its NAND flash memory production and focusing solely on HDDs for the AI sector. This decision follows the transfer of its SSD operations to SanDisk; rebranding of product lines like WD_Black to SD_Black is anticipated. Analyst ratings for Western Digital varied over the past three months, showing a mix of positive and negative opinions.

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Western Digital offers 3 products in the media tech and media and telecoms services industries. Western Digital's product portfolio comprises of consumer electronics, content acquisition and media cloud and storage.

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Mar

14th

2025

11:00

New Offerings, Caretta Research_Monitor Company

Unboxing Seagate’s Genshin Impact Limited EditionExternal SSD

Back in my day, branded storage solutions were lucky to have more than a small decal slapped onto the side of it. Even my Outsiders-themed external drive that powered my PlayStation 5's extra storage was little more than a silk-screened logo atop one of Western Digital's WD_Black P10 drive.

Mar

13th

2025

18:02

Big Data/Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Caretta Research_Monitor Company

Achieving Cost Efficiency in Cloud Storage: The Role of Western Digital’s Hard Drive Portfolio

Achieving Cost Efficiency in Cloud Storage: The Role of Western Digital’s Hard Drive Portfolio As data demands skyrocket, cloud providers face a financial crunch—discover how Western Digital's cutting-edge hard drive technologies dramatically reduce TCO while delivering the capacity and performance needed for tomorrow's storage challenges.

Mar

13th

2025

15:08

Funding Activities, Caretta Research_Monitor Company

Western Digital to redeem $1.8 billion of senior notes

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:WDC), a global data storage and technology company with a market capitalization of $14.6 billion, has announced its intention to redeem $1.8 billion in senior notes. According to InvestingPro data, the company maintains strong financial health with a current ratio of 1.99, indicating robust liquidity management.

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Mar

13th

2025

12:05

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Western Digital

Mar

13th

2025

11:22

Regulatory and Legal, Caretta Research_Monitor Company

SEC Filing: Western Digital Corp files 8-K

Western Digital Corp files Form 8-K on March 13, 2025

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Mar

12th

2025

19:02

Business Expansion, New Offerings, Caretta Research_Monitor Company

Western Digital Expands High-Capacity Storage Solutions for Creative and NAS Workflows

Boosting storage for creative professionals. Western Digital has introduced a new lineup of high-capacity storage solutions tailored to meet the demands of professional workflows at every stage, from production and editing to archiving and collaboration. As industries such as artificial intelligence, video production, analytics, virtual reality, and media and entertainment generate increasingly large volumes of data, the demand for scalable, high-performance storage continues to rise.

Mar

12th

2025

18:30

New Offerings, Caretta Research_Monitor Company

WD’s New Hard Drives Boost Max Capacity to a Whopping 26TB

Western Digital (WD), now separate from SanDisk and focused on hard drives, announced a new 26TB WD Red Pro HDD designed for use in RAID arrays and network attached storage (NAS). The company says the introduction of this high-capacity HDD is meant to address “the growing storage demand of NAS environments” and represents a substantial storage capacity increase.

Mar

12th

2025

11:00

Demerger/Spin Off, Caretta Research_Monitor Company

It's the end of an era for PS5 SSDs as the best in the business withdraws

Where that leaves the WD_Black brand is still not clear, but it could spell the end for our favourite PS5 SSD card. Western Digital has announced that it is separating from sister firm SanDisk, with the latter to make NAND products – including SSDs – exclusively.

Mar

12th

2025

11:00

Demerger/Spin Off, Caretta Research_Monitor Company

It's the end of an era for PS5 SSDs as the best in the business withdraws

Western Digital has announced that it is separating from sister firm SanDisk, with the latter to make NAND products – including SSDs – exclusively. Where that leaves the WD_Black brand is still not clear, but it could spell the end for our favourite PS5 SSD card.

Mar

11th

2025

18:30

Awards and Recognitions, Caretta Research_Monitor Company

ETHISPHERE Names Western Digital as One of the 2025 Worlds Most Ethical Companies for the Seventh Time

Western Digital (Nasdaq: WDC) has received the 2025 World’s Most Ethical Companies® recognition by Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. Western Digital has been recognized seven times and is one of only 5 honorees in the Technology industry.

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Mar

11th

2025

15:08

New Offerings, Caretta Research_Monitor Company

Western Digital Release 26TB WD Red Pro NAS Hard Drives

I remember the first HDD I owned in a system was 64MB. OK, I didn’t build that system, it was some pre-made piece of junk and it was ancient, and my first custom PC, way back in the 90s, friends called me “mad” for having not one, but two 6GB drives… the horror.

Mar

11th

2025

10:34

Awards and Recognitions, Caretta Research_Monitor Company

ETHISPHERE Names Western Digital as One of the 2025 World’s Most Ethical Companies® for the Seventh Time

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 11, 2025-- Western Digital (Nasdaq: WDC) has received the 2025 World’s Most Ethical Companies ® recognition by Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. Copyright Business Wire 2025.

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