#WesternDigital Corp. named #HewlettPackardEnterprise Co.’s Martin Fink as its next chief technology officer as the maker of data storage technologies works to address the rapid rise of data flowing throughout companies. He started Monday and reports to Western Digital CEO Steve Milligan. He’s based in San Jose, Calif. Mr. Fink comes from HP Labs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he served as CTO and director since 2012. Prior to that, he was senior vice president and general manager for business critical systems in HP’s enterprise, storage and servers unit. HP Enterprise was one of two companies created by the breakup of Hewlett-Packard Co. in 2015. Mr. Fink succeeds CTO Steven Campbell, who is leaving to pursue other opportunities, the company said. Mr. Campbell played a key role in Western Digital’s $19 billion acquisition of flash memory firm #SanDisk Corp. in May 2016. HP and SanDisk in 2015 partnered to create new memory technology to help facilitate the use of in-memory databases, real-time analytics and other tools that have grown out of the unprecedented volume of data inside companies. Mr. Fink led the effort at HP. The technology is based on the concept of memory-driven computing, which leans heavily on memory technology to boost calculating speed. In 2015, HP and SanDisk said they expected the technology to be cheaper and up to 1,000 times faster than traditional flash storage. HP Enterprise in November disclosed a working prototype of its own memory-driven computing system, known as the Machine. “(Mr. Fink) has been a leading voice on the value and promise of memory-driven computing and will lead our continued innovation focus areas, including the commercialization of Storage Class Memory solutions,” Mr. Milligan said in a statement.
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