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Is Sub-Zero cold storage another Facebook first?

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. According to Wired’s coverage of Facebook over the years, they have definitely elevated themselves from a technology perspective as a leader in data center design and economics.  First, they shared their Open Compute, then came talk about an…

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Redefining the Expectations and Economics of the Datacenter

Seagate announced today that it has joined other leading technology companies as a founding member of HP’s new ProActive Insight Architecture Alliance in support of the new ProLiant Gen8 servers, the world’s most self-sufficient servers.    Built with over 150 design innovations, these Gen8 servers help by eliminating common problems that cause failures, downtime and [...]

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Laying out the SSD enterprise trends for 2012

Enterprise data centers must evolve, according to IDC’s Jeff Janukowicz, since the world will consume a full six times the amount of data that exists today – all within the next 5 years. In a recent ChannelCast webinar that also included CRN’s Joseph Kovar and Seagate’s Rich Vignes,…

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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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Solid State Hybrid Drives will fuel the enterprise

Seagate just announced its latest generation Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD) – the 750GB Momentus XT – which made me pause and think about the potential implications throughout the enterprise. To be clear, the new Momentus XT is a client drive specifically designed for laptops. But with a 70%…

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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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SAS mythbusters: Data highways and SAS vs. SATA

With LSI’s recent announcement that the company has begun sampling 12Gb/s SAS technology to OEMs, it seemed a good time to write about SAS. Also an opportunity to clear up a couple common misconceptions. SAS, or Serial Attached SCSI, is the current interface of choice in the enterprise for…

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Modulars: Rethinking the future of the data center

With all the talk of the continued exponential growth of storage, and the excitement surrounding the consumption being driven by all the new applications and devices that access information from the Cloud, it’s easy to overlook the question of just where exactly all the backend technology will…

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Is MLC the Future of Enterprise SSD Storage?

A few years ago when Solid State Drives (SSD) really began getting the attention of many within the storage industry, NAND memory was one topic hot on everyone’s mind, namely Single-Level Cell (SLC) vs. Multi-Level Cell (MLC). The story at the time was easy enough to understand – SLC was…

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