{"id":36582,"date":"2013-04-25T09:22:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T07:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=36582"},"modified":"2013-04-25T09:38:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T07:38:53","slug":"enterprise-boosts-western-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/36582\/enterprise-boosts-western-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise boosts Western Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard disk drive maker Western Digital Corp posted better-than-expected third-quarter revenue, helped by higher demand from enterprise customers.<\/p>\n<p>Net income for the company, which along with Seagate Technology Plc dominates the hard disk drive market, fell to $391 million, or $1.60 per share, from $483 million, or $1.96 per share, a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue rose 24 percent to $3.76 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts on average had expected earnings of $1.77 per share on revenue of $3.61 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I\/B\/E\/S.<\/p>\n<p>Hard disk drive shipment rose 36 percent to 60.2 million units.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Western Digital<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Western Digital beats forecast\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/24790\/western-digital-beats-forecast\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Western Digital beats forecast<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Western Digital appoints SA country manager\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/2639\/western-digital-appoints-sa-country-manager\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Western Digital appoints SA country manager<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard disk drive maker Western Digital Corp posted better-than-expected third-quarter revenue, helped by higher demand from enterprise customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,1488,5689,633],"class_list":["post-36582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-enterprise","tag-hard-drives","tag-western-digital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36610,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36582\/revisions\/36610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}