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A glimpse at Seagate Enterprise Storage Simplified

. It’s a bit of an understatement to say that enterprise storage is complicated. Seagate alone has 7 different drive families in the enterprise storage space with 26 capacity points, and 101 model numbers. Everything from SSDs to hard drives, encrypted to non-encrypted, FIPS to…

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Seagate enterprise tiered storage decoder ring

It’s a bit of an understatement to say that enterprise storage is complicated. Seagate alone has 7 different drive families in the enterprise storage space with 26 capacity points, and 101 model numbers. Everything from SSDs to hard drives, encrypted to non-encrypted, FIPS to…

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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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Avere is Compellent for NAS

The ever-informative Chris Mellor profiled the 2008 storage startup Avere.  Founded by ex-Spinnaker, ex-NetApp execs, their technology applies the same automatic tiering concepts that Compellent has exploited, but for files instead of blocks. Avere’s approach, like Compellent’s, may be…

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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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