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Why TCO is not OCT (Only Cost per Terabyte)

When it comes to IT today, almost every decision made takes into account the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).  TCO analysis has never been more needed than in the era of cloud. Evolve IP – The Cloud Services Company put together a nice infographic that helps IT take into account all of the…

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“Inside the Box” Storage Tiering

It seems there is still some confusion out there on how, when, where and why to tier internal storage, so I’ll take a shot at explaining this as I know it today. The easiest and most sensible place to start is of course at the “Why” tier my storage. As with everything in the business [...]

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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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Need more storage bandwidth? 12Gb/s SAS is coming

At last week’s Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, LSI showcased an impressive demo of an 8-port 12Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solution that reached over 1.2 million I/O operations per second when connected to just eight Seagate Savvio 2.5-inch drives. Yes, you read it correctly: 12Gb/s SAS is coming. According to Marty Czekalski, [...]

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Tom’s Hardware investigates SSD reliability

Coming off of last week’s post about SAS vs. SATA myths, let’s now shift gears to review an old myth about SSDs vs. HDDs. Of course Seagate makes both, so we’re especially interested in understanding and demystifying how the divergent features of SSDs and HDDs fit best into the…

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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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IDC says world’s storage is breaking Moore’s Law, more than doubling every two years

You know that the storage consumption growth trend is going to continue, but now IDC put some numbers together along with expert analysis to examine the trend even closer. In its new IDC Digital Universe Study, “Extracting Value from Chaos” (sponsored by EMC), the study forecasts that 1.8 zettabytes will be created and replicated in [...]

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SAS or SATA? Why do some enterprise HDDs offer both?

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?…

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Do IT Professionals care what’s under the covers when it comes to their equipment?

Yes they do! IT Pros know what drive brands are spinning inside their equipment.  OEMs may want all of us drive guys to be strictly vanilla but to IT pros, there is a difference …especially when it comes to enterprise storage.   Each month IT Brand Pulse selects a handful of product…

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