Security News > 2021 > May > Western Digital expands Purple Pro product line for growing AI-enabled workloads

Empowering the world's essential data infrastructure, Western Digital announced the expansion of the WD Purple family with the WD Purple Pro product line for a new generation of advanced AI-enabled recorders and back-end servers.

The new WD Purple Pro line is designed to handle these workloads with optimized storage performance, capacity, workload capability and reliability for a myriad of devices, including AI-enabled network video recorders, video analytics servers, storage arrays and storage/server solutions, including those that perform deep-learning analytics.

"With the addition of WD Purple Pro, our full portfolio of smart video products covers customers' needs from dedicated WD Purple microSD cards for cameras to WD Purple hard drives for mainstream NVRs and the new generation of smart video architectures, where the 'smart' of the solution starts with the brains at the back-end - the servers that perform video analytics and heavy computational deep learning," said Brian Mallari, director of marketing for Smart Video, Western Digital.

Enhanced AllFrame AI technology enabling video streams from up to 64 HD cameras to be recorded concurrently, while simultaneously handling up to an additional 32 AI streams for AI functions, whether cameras are directly connected to advanced recorders or to cloud-based servers.

Western Digital's full family of WD Purple solutions for smart video surveillance includes 1TB WD Purple microSD cards for cameras and edge devices to 1TB-8TB WD Purple HDDs for NVRs; and now, WD Purple Pro drives from 8TB to 18TB to support a range of systems for AI-heavy workloads, including back-end enterprise servers.

WD Purple Pro solutions will be available this quarter from Western Digital resellers.

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