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Dreamworks Maximizes Storage

With Madagascar 3 being released this Friday, thought it would be of interest to the community to see just how much data is required to produce a 3D film. At HP’s Discover event in Las Vegas today, the crowd of over 10,000 was enlightened to learn that: • Dreamworks has released over 20 animated films [...]

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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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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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The Enterprise Perspective from the Flash Memory Summit 2010

Each year at the annual Flash Memory Summit, flash designers, system engineers, and OEMs converge to discuss the latest trends and updates within the growing solid state memory market. The Flash Memory Summit hosted more than 1,500 participants this year at the Santa Clara Convention Center, where…

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Storage Budgeting Tips during Tough Times

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 storage demands. Here are 5 options to consider: 1. Tier Your Storage – Use lower cost Nearline storage, like Seagate Constellation™ drives for high capacity reference data, [...]

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HP goes all in for SAS

Beth Pariseau reported on two big storage announcements from HP:  HP will move its entire storage line to six Gbps small form factor SAS, starting with the D2000 in the fall.  That’s two valuable transitions in one: moving from 4Gbps FC to 6 Gbps SAS, and moving from 3.5″…

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HP blades: what’s good for servers is good for storage

Chris Mellor at The Register heard from Gary Veale, HP’s new StorageWorks EMEA VP on HP’s storage future – and it looks a lot like HP’s current servers. Veale says HP will decouple storage management, processors and storage with a modular blade approach.  Processor blades…

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For HP servers, what a difference a drive makes!

As I was perusing some HP server benchmarks recently, I was struck by how integral disk drives are to server performance – and not just IOPS.   Disk drives are a quiet but essential part of what makes a server fast, energy efficient or just do whatever it was born to do. Take for example…

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HP servers and storage: an interview with Jimmy Daley

  Jimmy Daley and I talked server storage the other day.  Jimmy’s the Server Options guy at HP, kind of a front-row seat for what’s happening on the storage front for servers. Some highlights: Server trends are particularly ”storage-friendly” these days. Virtualization is driving a significant increase in server storage capacity. Drive count per server is increasing [...]

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2.5″ SAS arrays are coming out of the woodwork

Dot Hill announced a couple of RAID arrays using 2.5″ SAS drives. Xyratex has been in the 2.5″ array business for awhile now. HP‘s also in the game. The list goes on and on. 2.5″ enterprise drives are ready for storage system prime time. These small drives are now big from a…

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