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Seagate's Wes Perdue speaks at the 2011 International Cloud Computing Seminar

The global cloud expansion trend is a welcome start to 2012!

Over the past few years, cloud computing has grown to become the hottest trend to emerge in IT and storage. The cost of storage has continued to go down, so mass deployment of clouds has gone way up. Everyone wants to be part of the cloud opportunity and so it was natural that after an [...]

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Seagate on security and interface trends at SNW Fall 2011

The fall 2011 Storage Networking World (SNW) show is just around the corner and will be held next week at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes in Orlando, Florida. SNW is the world’s largest storage, data center, and IT infrastructure conference and brings together top information from information technology executives, leading product and service providers, and [...]

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To auto-tier or not when managing storage data

With today’s complexity of IT data management, and the need for ever-increasing efficiency and cost reduction, tiering your data based on its use is essential. What that means is that the most frequently accessed information stays on the higher-performance Solid State Drives (SSDs) and 15K-rpm…

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“My hard drives get no respect!” – Tales of SeaTools and Seagate support

To paraphrase the late Rodney Dangerfield, “Hard drives get no respect. No respect I tell ya!” And this may actually be a fact, as drives tend to be the first to be blamed when a PC starts acting erratically. Interesting fact, though, is after testing more than 20 percent of the drives returned to Seagate for warranty replacement [...]

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The SSD Party Is Just Beginning…

Seagate’s recently announced next-generation Pulsar SSDs created lots of positive industry buzz in the news. It helped that both the Pulsar XT.2 and Pulsar.2 SSDs have a number of class-leading features between them that will undoubtedly benefit the enterprise. But some may wonder, are these products late to market and is Seagate behind the technology [...]

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Seagate and LSI Discuss Nearline SAS Storage Systems and Applications on Let’s Talk Computers® Radio Show

Barbara Craig, Seagate Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Gina Geisel, Product Marketing Manager with LSI Engenio Storage Group, were recently invited on the Let’s Talk Computers radio show to discuss many of the benefits companies will receive by turning to storage systems that deploy Nearline SAS drives for all Tier 2 and archiving requirements. The [...]

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The Top 10 Technologies That Remain the Backbone of Enterprise Storage

Enterprise Storage Forum posted a recent story titled, “Top 10 Technologies That Remain the Backbone of Storage.” These are the unsung heroes… they are the unhyped…some may be technologies you thought were dying… but they are in fact the technologies that run the world’s data, and…

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Is Fibre Channel Headed for Extinction?

SearchStorage recently wrote a feature titled, “6Gbps SAS drives signal end of line for Fibre Channel disk drives.” Depending on how deeply entrenched you may be within your own enterprise, this may or may not be a surprise to you.  After all, Fibre Channel has a huge installed drive base in…

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Seagate Cheetah drives are well-known within the storage industry as being among the most reliable HDDs offered

Diving into “MTBF” and “AFR”: Storage Reliability Specs Explained

During Seagate’s recent launch of its Savvio 10K.4 drive, I read some news stories that indicated the 10K.4’s two million hour Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) specification meant that the drive’s actual average lifespan equated to over 200 years of use. While the 10K.4 certainly is 25% more…

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Simplify your life with automated tiered storage from Compellent

What can be more rewarding for the IT manager than automating the process of migrating data to the most optimum storage device based on the frequency of data access? Referred to as automated tiered storage, Compellent offers just this with their Data Progression product – dynamically migrating…

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