Western Digital has opened its new, expanded System Integration and Test (SIT) Lab in Rochester, Minnesota a 25,600-square-foot lab that will help speed customer success through growing AI and cloud storage needs. The lab is optimized to accelerate qualification of future-generation high-capacity HDDs, providing faster time to value to help customers deploy storage solutions with optimal density and efficiency. The AI revolution made one thing obvious: storage is the backbone of the AI data-driven economy and HDDs are its backbone,” stated Ahmed Shihab, Western Digital Chief Product Officer. “But our customers require more than rock-solid storage, they require a trusted partner who innovates with them.”
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The SIT Lab is an open collaboration environment where Western Digital engineers collaborate with customers in every phase of the product life cycle, from creation to end-of-life. Combining with the company’s worldwide network of testing labs, the Rochester lab extends in-magnitude testing, customer interaction, and innovation, while solidifying Western Digital’s decades-long history of community investment and AI and cloud infrastructure advancement.
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