IBM vs Western Digital

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IBM
Based on 2916 reviews.
Western Digital
Based on 5 reviews.
Overview
International Business Machines Corporation is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware, middleware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company through a merger of the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company.
Western Digital Corporation is one of the largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers in the world. Western Digital Corporation has a long history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and a storage products company. Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970 by Alvin B. Phillips, a Motorola employee, as General Digital, initially a manufacturer of MOS test equipment. It rapidly became a speciality semiconductor maker, with start-up capital provided by several individual investors and industrial giant Emerson Electric Company. Around July 1971, it adopted its current name and soon introduced its first product, the WD1402A UART.
Sample Customers
IBM SSD
Benefit, Employment and Support Services Division, State of Hawaii, INTERSPORT
IBM FlashSystem
Celero, Friedhelm Loh Group, Clarks, Mingkang Natregro Health Food Group, Sofia, Etisalat Fights Fraud, UF Health Shands Hospital, Generali, Elecon Engineering Company Limited, Ventiv , Technology, CPFL Energia, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., SciQuest, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, Paddy Power, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Interconnect Services, Severstal IP-Only AB, PVU Group GmbH
IBM Cloud Object Storage
Bitly, Dreamstime, Prime Research
IBM Storage Fusion
1. Accenture 2. Aetna 3. AIG 4. Airbus 5. Allstate 6. Amazon 7. American Express 8. ATT 9. Bank of America 10. Barclays 11. BASF 12. Bayer 13. Bechtel 14. Boeing 15. BNP Paribas 16. Cisco 17. Coca-Cola 18. Comcast 19. Dell 20. Deutsche Bank 21. Eni 22. ExxonMobil 23. Ford 24. GE 25. Google 26. Hitachi 27. Honeywell 28. IBM 29. Intel 30. JPMorgan Chase 31. Kellogg's 32. Lockheed Martin
IBM Spectrum Control
Nuance
IBM Spectrum Discover
CEMEX
IBM Storage Insights
Tectrade, Coventry Building Society
SanDisk SSD
CloudByte, ScaleMatrix
Western Digital SSD
Big Success
HGST SSD
LinkedIn, Flipkart, Oracle, Fluidata, Gridstore
SanDisk InfiniFlash System
Nexenta
Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC 500 series
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HGST Device Manager
Oracle
HGST Flash Software Suite
Flipkart, Gridstore
HGST ActiveScale
EPFL, Illumination Mac Guff
OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform
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Popular Solutions
Top Industries
Financial Services Firm
17%
Educational Organization
16%
Computer Software Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Comms Service Provider
20%
Computer Software Company
10%
University
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
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