Earlier this week, StorageReview took a good look under the covers of the new Constellation ES hard drive and determined that with its’ “512GB, 1TB, and 2TB configurations offered in SAS and SATA interfaces with plenty of security and power savings options make the Seagate Constellation ES line a solid drive for high-capacity enterprise storage [...]
Barbara Craig
Rorke Data & Seagate Rock the Media & Entertainment World
In the world of broadcasting and entertainment, there are several new major advances in technology driving high-end content creation which in turn is driving demand for high performance, high capacity systems with hard disk drives that support this infrastructure.
Technologies like HD Video, 3D, VFX, DPX (digital picture exchange) film are all driving large volumes of [...]
Constellation ES – the brightest new star in the Seagate Enterprise galaxy!
This 4th generation 7200-RPM drive with its’ 2TB capacity is a perfect fit for the data-hungry organization that needs to house up to 76TB of data in every square foot of floor space in their data center or data closet and doing so without breaking the bank.
The 3.5-inch Seagate® Constellation™ ES drive enables cost-effective, highly [...]
216TB of Data Dedupe from GreenBytes
What a breath of fresh air (with a small carbon footprint) GreenBytes is with their GB-X series appliances.
Designed for businesses who source their storage products through resellers and channel integrators, they offer scaleable storage (up to 216TB) that fits in shrinking spaces (due to their use of 2.5-inch drives) and does so while keeping the electrical [...]
SSD Top Performance and Reliability for Enterprise Tier 0
With today’s announcement of Seagate’s Pulsar SSD product, Enterprise customers now have a viable solution for I/O-intensive, high performance blade and general application server storage environments.
Whether it’s I/O intensive workloads like decision support applications (e.g. data warehousing, data mining, email etc.) or traditional business processing in the form of OLTP, ERP or CRM or other I/O [...]
Self-Encrypting Drives Save Time, Money and Face too!
As gold hit its’ record high of $1,226.10 an ounce this week, it’s one of the safest investments out there … as is the data security offered with Self-Encrypted Drive (SED) technology.
There are two clear-cut reasons to configure your enterprise data center servers and storage arrays with SED technology. Both can save you valuable time [...]
Reducing Your Enterprise Storage Footprint
Check out Greg Shulz’s recommendations
on how to reduce your information footprint
whether it’s online,
offline or
nearline data.
SSD from Seagate
SSDs are making their way into the market as Seagate, the storage leader began shipping SSDs last month to enterprise OEM customers who are reporting favorable early results with their testing.
Targeted at the broad volume server market (including the popular blade servers), the initial product offers a SATA interface, and in the future we’ll [...]
6Gb/s SAS – Simply good for Enterprise Storage!
IT Managers looking for speed out of their data centers are looking closely at implementing 6Gb/s SAS. But indeed, it’s more than that. SAS now comes close to offering the enterprise scalability that we’ve counted on Fibre Channel for up until now. If you’re configuring multi-drive environments and want more lowdown on the uptake, check [...]
Storage Budgeting Tips during Tough Times
Despite the difficult economic times, storage needs keep growing. IT managers are looking for ways to optimize the investments they must make to keep up with these ever-increasing storage demands.
Here are 5 options to consider:
1. Tier Your Storage – Use lower cost Nearline storage, like Seagate Constellation™ drives for high capacity reference data, backups or [...]