Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) is at Microsoft Ignite demonstrating how its innovations in SSDs, HDDs and storage server platforms help data center managers and architects deliver scale-out performance and extreme storage density with unmatched TCO for today's most demanding IT environments. With Western Digital's expansive lineup, Microsoft enterprise customers can accelerate mission-critical applications and hybrid-cloud workloads, and optimize virtualized, hyperscale and Azure Stack HCI environments to better store, move, process and extract the most value from their data.

WHERE: Microsoft Ignite, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL, Booth #909

EXHIBIT & NEW PRODUCT INTRODUCTION: Visitors to Western Digital's booth will experience live demonstrations of the world's highest capacity HDDs that deliver the best TCO value at scale – the 18TB¹ CMR and 20TB SMR Ultrastar HDDs with energy-assisted recording technology. It is also highlighting its latest Ultrastar 96-layer NVMe™ SSD families and Ultrastar Serv60+8 hybrid storage server, along with their industry-leading Ultrastar Data60 storage enclosure. Additionally, the company is introducing its sixth-generation SAS SSD, the Ultrastar DC SS540, for all-flash arrays (AFAs), caching tiers, high-performance computing (HPC), and software-defined storage (SDS) environments (Blog: SAS Lives On and Here's Why).

DEMO HIGHLIGHTS:

• Scale Storage Performance With Ultrastar NVMe, SAS, and edge SSDs and capacity-optimized HDDs for architecting efficient and purpose-built infrastructure to achieve the best TCO in the Zettabyte Era

• Balanced Storage Performance for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI With the Ultrastar Serv60+8 performance-optimized hybrid storage server for SDS, SQL Server, VDI, virtualization, edge, Microsoft Office, scale-out storage, and hybrid cloud

• Expanded, Affordable Storage Capacity for all Microsoft Environments Designed for high-density and flexibility, the Ultrastar Data60 storage platform supports up to 840TB of disk storage in a compact form-factor, optimized for VDI, virtualization, scale-out storage, and hybrid cloud

EXHIBIT HOURS (The Hub): Monday, November 4: 12:30 PM – 7:30 PM Tuesday, November 5: 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM Wednesday, November 6: 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM Thursday, November 7: 8:30 AM – 5:15 PM