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We achieved signicant progress in advancing our growth initiatives in scal 2015:
• Our enterprise solid state drive revenue grew 60% year-over-year to $811 million,
demonstrating the continued success and broadening customer acceptance of our
leading SAS SSD products.
• We expanded our footprint in the enterprise SSD space with our new Ultrastar PCIe
NVMe offering. We expect SAS and PCIe-based SSDs will be the main interfaces in
the fast-growing enterprise SSD market over the next several years.
• We continued to see strong demand for our high-capacity helium hard drives, which
provides compelling value for hyperscale datacenter customers and for next-generation
active archive applications. We have delivered three helium-based HDD capacity points
in the last two years.
• Revenue from our video surveillance hard drives continued its rapid growth in scal 2015,
as we expanded our lineup of these purpose-built solutions for the global security industry.
• We saw positive market reaction to the value proposition of our new Active Archive
system. Our acquisition of Amplidata, a leader in object storage software, provides a
key building block for these systems that address a greeneld opportunity in enterprise
storage.
Our view of persistent data growth remains intact, driven by mobility and the cloud. The outlook for
our overall storage business remains healthy, and we believe we are well positioned to address this
evolving space.
In closing, I want to thank our Chairman of the Board, Tom Pardun, for his 22 years of service on the
Western Digital board of directors. Tom will be retiring at our annual shareholders’ meeting and will
be succeeded as chairman by former chairman, president and CEO, Matt Massengill.
I also thank our employees for their dedication, and our shareholders, customers and partners for their
support, and I look forward to reporting to you on our progress in the years ahead.
Steve Milligan
President and Chief Executive Ofcer
Western Digital Corporation
September 23, 2015