pete.steege
I’m Pete Steege, a Global Segment Manager at Seagate Technology. I’m based in our Shakopee, MN design center. Looking for connections where they’re least expected is a passion of mine. My curiosity has led me to a variety of roles on three continents working for very large (IBM Corp.) and very small (Optical Specialties Inc.) technology companies - and several sizes in between. This blog is about storage and its growing value - for those that create it, integrate it, use it. Being employed by Seagate informs my blog, but won’t define it.
LSI and Seagate announced a joint effort to bring Solid State Storage (SSS) to market via an LSI-branded PCI Express board-level solution. Seagate brings the storage, LSI the controller technology, all wrapped in a SAS package that makes it compatible with the future of data center and cloud…
Data has become the most valued (and proprietary) asset for most businesses. So why do they dispose of it with less discretion than consumers apply to their electric bill? Granted, IT departments can’t just put their old disk drives through a paper shredder. But there are now simple and incredibly effective encryption methods to guarantee that no [...]
Chris Mellor points to Dell’s adoption of 6Gb/s SAS for their PowerVault DAS line up. Yet another data point that puts SAS front and center in the enterprise. Why is this such a big deal? Dell effectively doubles their speed with SAS, allowing their storage to keep up with Intel Nehalem and virtualization workloads. Seagate’s all [...]
Ask an IT manager if his data center is growing, and he should say, “It depends.” If you’re asking about data capacity and processing power, the answer will almost certainly be yes. Rapid data growth of 50%+ per year is not uncommon. If you’re asking about the…
Let’s see, for 6Gb/s SAS to work in the real world, we’ll need drives, controllers, enclosures, ready-to-use solutions… Check, check and check. SAS 6Gb/s is ready for mainstream adoption. Are you ready too, or still on the sidelines?
SSD is emerging as a viable option for some enterprise applications, but it will be awhile before it is mature enough for the most critical applications. Until then, data centers will do just fine with the newest crop of 6Gb/s SAS drives. Computer Power User reviewed the field and saw a lot…
InfoStor’s article on 6Gb/s SAS and 8 Gb/s FC is titled “The Need for Speed“. Aptly named, as unlike typical ‘speed bumps’, this round of interface speed doubling may be needed right away. And from their interface forecast, it’s clear that SAS will play a…
Xbit Labs performed the mother of all SAS drive tests. Seventeen SAS 3.5″ drives run through the gauntlet on performance, capacity, power – you name it. It’s like Enter the Dragon for disk drives. After 22 web pages of detailed results, who was the last drive standing? “The…
The history of the disk drive industry is a long series of relentless “firsts”. The latest Seagate Cheetah 15k drive stands out as a particularly impressive milestone. Barefeats was able to use two Cheetah 15K.7 drives on uncompressed video in a way that required ten drives in the…
Healthcare brings out a lot of passion in people these days. Many of the topics stridently debated are surprisingly relevant to enterprise storage: Universal coverage All business data isn’t created equal, but there is a threshold of storage, management, protection and security below which any…
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