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 [...]
With Seagate’s latest Constellation and Constellation ES HDD families, the drives are offered in both 6Gb SAS or 6Gb SATA versions. Both drive families are enterprise-class, so it begs the question: “Why are there models available using the desktop-oriented SATA interface in the first place?…
In my last post, “Is Data in the Cloud Safe?” I talked about how few cloud service providers encrypt data at rest and how this impacts the security of your cloud data – especially when drives are retired. This post discusses a fast, easy way to enable secure cloud computing by using Self-Encrypting Drives to [...]
What a great way to top off 2010! Seagate’s family of enterprise Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) earned Electronic Design’s Best Electronic Design award for 2010. The Cheetah, Savvio, and Constellation SEDs won in the Computer Hard Disk Drive category and are highlighted in Electronic Design’s…
Rising storage power and cooling costs are expected to plateau and level off by the 2013-2014 timeframe, according to an analysis by International Data Corporation (IDC). Several key trends were cited as reasons: the migration to smaller (2.5in.), more energy efficient enterprise-class hard disk…
Often we receive the question, “What are the differences between desktop and enterprise drives?” That same person may in fact also be thinking, “Can I use those lower-cost desktop drives in an enterprise environment?” Seagate engineers design and test enterprise-class drives including…
It doesn’t matter whether it’s in your home or your data center, having a quiet PC or storage system is always a good thing. In fact, there are organizations and websites dedicated exclusively to this area of computing. And because April 28, 2010 marks the 15th anniversary of International Noise…
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…
The team at Bjorn3D took a unique angle with their latest review of Seagate’s Savvio 600GB 10K.4 enterprise Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drive, discussing applications within filmmaking environments. Using a system based on the Savvio drives along with an LSI 3Ware 9750-8i RAID card running at…
With the threat of cyber attacks / cyber warfare growing daily, it’s important to understand enterprise cyber security – and the best place (in the USA) to learn about what’s going on in this dynamic field is at the annual RSA Conference this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This…
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