October 30, 2009 – 2:26 pm
Reducing power consumption in the data center has moved from a nice-to-have to a necessity. No surprise that a ‘green’ drive sounds appealing for servers and storage systems.
Drive manufacturers have [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Green IT, Products, Uncategorized
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Also tagged 2 TB, 2TB, business critical, Caviar, Constellation ES, green, nearline, powerchoice, PowerTrim, RE-GP, Seagate, WD, western digital
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October 30, 2009 – 11:07 am
It’s like HDTV.
First we had HD televisions without any content. Then we had some HD broadcasts, and some HD DVDs in the stores.
Then – inflection point! – all the pieces were there. [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in 10K/15K RPM, 7200 rpm, Products, Servers
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Also tagged 6Gb/s SAS, 6Gb/sec SAS, analogy, Blockbuster, Cheetah 15K, Constellation ES, end-to-end, HDTV, inflection point, infrastructure, lsi, performance, SAS, savvio, Savvio 10K, Savvio 15K, Seagate, Supermicro
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October 1, 2009 – 12:52 pm
TechGadgets created an arresting visual image in my mind as they described the problem being solved by Seagate’s new self-encrypting enterprise drives:
“There isn’t an organization, large or small, [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Security
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Also tagged Cheetah, disk drive, fde, hard drive, lsi, MegaRAID, SafeStore, savvio, Seagate, SED, self-encrypting drive
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September 29, 2009 – 7:25 am
By Pete Steege
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Posted in 10K/15K RPM, Products
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Also tagged Barracuda XT, Chris Mellor, customer, define, definition, enterprise, expectations, FC, firmware, high capacity, performance, reliability, requirements, SAS, Seagate, The Register, WD
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September 23, 2009 – 2:22 pm
Seagate took a big step in the history of disk drives yesterday, although it may take a while for it to be seen as such.
Seagate announced the availability [....]
September 14, 2009 – 8:20 am
Reliable enterprise-class disk drives are critical for any trustworthy data center.
Redundant storage system designs are necessary.
Failover power and cooling is essential.
But sometimes none of that matters. This video from [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Backup, Data Center, International
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Also tagged barracuda es, Cheetah, data center, Data Center Knowledge, disk drives, enterprise, flood, Istanbul, nightmare, rain, savvio, Seagate, storm, Turkey, underwater, video
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August 26, 2009 – 1:04 pm
Supermicro has launched a series of SAS 6G-ready server components called Building Block Solutions that have all the latest shtuff:
Onboard 6 Gb/s SAS technology
1U, 2U, 3U and 4U rackmount, tower [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged 6 Gb/s, 6 Gig, Building Block, disk drives, rackmount, SAS, SAS 2.0, savvio, Savvio 10K, Savvio 15K, Seagate, server, six-gig, Supermicro, tower
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August 24, 2009 – 2:04 pm
SearchStorage is reporting today on the lengths to which companies go to destroy their old data. It’s not as easy as you might think.
They quote an Enterprise Strategy Group [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Green IT, Products, Security, Trends
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Also tagged Cheetah, data destruction, de-Gauss, destroy, Enterprise Strategy Group, erase, fde, methods, momentus, savvio, Seagate, SearchStorage, Security, SED, self-encrypting, self-encrypting drives, software, survey
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August 12, 2009 – 8:56 am
Reducing data center power consumption is good for the planet and good for IT budgets. It can also mean extra cash.
PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) awarded Fortune Data Centers $900,000 [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in 10K/15K RPM, 7200 rpm, Green IT, Trends, Uncategorized
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Also tagged 2.5", conservation, data center, Data Center Knowledge, energy consumption, Fortune Data Center, IT, PG&E, power, San Jose, savvio, Seagate
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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 [....]
By Barbara Craig
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged 2.5", cloud storage, cost savings, data center, Data Reduction, disk drive, efficiency, energy efficiency, enterprise, HP, low power, performance, SAS, sata, savvio, Seagate, SearchStorage, Servers, storage, Storage Provisioning, tiered storage, virtualization
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