IBM vs Western Digital
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 IBM Based on 1744 reviews. |  Western Digital Based on 5 reviews. |
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| 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. |
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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 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 HGST Device Manager: Oracle HGST Flash Software Suite: Flipkart, Gridstore HGST ActiveScale: EPFL, Illumination Mac Guff |
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