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IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WD(®), a subsidiary of Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC), and a world leader in external storage and solutions for today's connected life, today introduced My Passport(®) Enterprise, one of the industry's first portable hard drives designed specifically for use with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows To Go, which enables corporate customers to provision a fully featured Windows 8 workspace on a bootable USB drive. My Passport Enterprise includes...

IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WD(®), a subsidiary of Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC), and a world leader in external storage and solutions for today's connected life, today unveils its My Net(TM) Wi-Fi(TM) Range Extender to expand wireless home networks into out-of-reach areas of the home. Following the introduction of its first line of wireless home networking products, the acclaimed My Net family of HD dual-band routers, the selectable dual-band My Net Wi-Fi Range...

IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that the company will release its financial results for the first fiscal quarter ended Sept. 28, 2012, after the close of the market on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. The investment community conference call to discuss these results will be broadcast live over the Internet that day at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern. The live and archived conference call webcast can be accessed online at...

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WD(®), a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), and a leader in the mobile, desktop, high-capacity enterprise and consumer markets for hard drives today announced it is further expanding its enterprise-class storage offerings with the release of new WD RE SAS and WD RE SATA hard drives in capacities up to 4 TB, the largest on the market today. Available immediately in 1 TB, 2 TB, 3 TB and 4 TB capacities for nearline SAS and 2 TB,...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Western Digital’s newest subsidiary is faced with a problem: Though technology has been, and always will be, shrinking in size, how do hard drive makers get as much efficiency as they can from the space they’re given? Today, they’ve announced a new hard drive with a very interesting solution to this problem: Helium. HGST, or Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, has said they expect to begin filling hard drives with the...

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company, NASDAQ: WDC) today announced a new helium-filled hard disk drive (HDD) platform, which is at the forefront of advanced technology for increasing capacity and significantly reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) for enterprise and cloud customers. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120913/LA73138LOGO) With products expected in 2013, the...

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that at its Investor Day on Sept. 13, 2012, executives will discuss the company's vision for the evolution of storage, its market positions, its strategies and technologies for addressing multiple growth opportunities, as well as its business model and capital allocation strategy. Executive presentations will include: John Coyne, CEO, Western Digital: "Passion for Change: A...

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WD(®), a subsidiary of Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced it is sampling a 5mm-thin hard disk drive featuring hybrid technology. WD has developed hard drives slim enough for integration into today's thinnest notebook PCs, which provide high-capacity storage and robustness while featuring instant-on and application performance similar to today's client solid state drives (SSDs). The new technologies will be showcased...

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that at its Investor Day on Sept. 13, 2012, executives will discuss the company's vision for the evolution of storage, its market positions, its strategies and technologies for addressing multiple growth opportunities, as well as its business model and capital allocation strategy. Executive presentations will include: John Coyne, CEO, Western Digital: "Passion for Change: A...

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that Steve Milligan will become chief executive officer of the company on January 2, 2013, succeeding John Coyne, who is retiring on that same date. Milligan, 49, is currently president of Western Digital and will retain the title of president when he becomes CEO. Following Coyne's retirement, Milligan will be appointed to the Western Digital board of directors. "We are grateful to...