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Western Digital Corporation WDC is driving a new era of storage innovation by advancing infrastructure solutions tailored for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), software-defined storage (SDS) and disaggregated storage. With a focus on hyperscale cloud service providers (CSPs), enterprises and Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) vendors, the company’s Platforms Business delivers both high-capacity JBODs (Just a Bunch of Disks) and high-performance EBOF (Ethernet Bunch of Flash) NVMe-oF solutions to power intensive data workloads.
As AI and data-centric computing evolve, organizations are under increasing pressure to deploy scalable, efficient and sustainable storage systems. To address this demand, Western Digital has announced major enhancements to its Open Composable Compatibility Lab (OCCL), including the launch of OCCL 2.0, the Ultrastar Data102 ORv3 JBOD and the OpenFlex Data24 4100, which feature single-port SSDs and additional SSD qualifications for its OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF platform.
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At Computex, Western Digital introduced the OpenFlex Data24 4100 EBOF, designed for cloud environments using single-port SSDs and system-level mirroring. It joins the Data24 4000 series. The new Ultrastar Data102 3000 ORv3 JBOD, aligned with Open Rack v3 specifications, offers improved efficiency, airflow and manageability.
Located in Colorado Springs, the OCCL is a vendor-neutral innovation hub designed to accelerate industry-wide adoption of open, fabric-attached storage and SDS solutions. OCCL 2.0 introduces new capabilities such as comprehensive solutions architecture guidance for deploying disaggregated infrastructure, best practice frameworks for maximizing storage efficiency and benchmarking tools for evaluating SSD partner performance. With these updates, OCCL 2.0 aims to deepen collaboration with ecosystem partners while helping customers reduce deployment risks, improve interoperability and build future-ready infrastructure.
The lab continues to play a pivotal role in shaping the next generation of composable architectures, with a growing list of ecosystem collaborators that includes Arista Networks, Broadcom, DapuStor, Graid Technology, Ingrasys, Intel, Kioxia, MinIO, NVIDIA, OSNexus, PEAK:AIO, Phison, SanDisk, ScaleFlux, ThinkParQ/BeeGFS and Xinnor. As the industry moves away from proprietary models, Western Digital’s OCCL 2.0 strengthens its leadership in creating flexible, open ecosystems that meet the performance, efficiency and scale demands of modern data infrastructure.