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IDC says “develop faster HDD performance for PC markets”. Okay
The “HDD Industry Needs to Transform Itself“. That the headline of a recent post by StorageNewsletter.com based on IDC’s latest “Worldwide Hard Disk Drive 2011-2015 Forecast: Transformational Times”...
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Why smarter people precedes smarter storage
Are these stats — care of Steve Wojtowecz, VP of Storage Software Development at IBM via @forbes — eye-opening or what? “The combined amount of tablet and smartphone traffic is predicted to generate...
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Storage’ new best friend is an elephant?
You can store “nearly half of the entire written works of mankind, from the beginning of recorded history” on EMC’s new Greenplum Analytics Workbench. Holy “BIG Data”…and crazy to think it’s for...
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The invisible second economy (for servers and storage)
“Digitization is creating a second economy that’s vast, automatic, and invisible—thereby bringing the biggest change since the Industrial Revolution.” - W. Brian Arthur, McKinsey Quarterly In an...
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[Infographic]: SMBs migration to the cloud
The one takeaway from this Microsoft Office 365 infographic: The new SMB tech marketing angle is the Cloud. Over the past 5 years, anyone and everyone in the tech sector has sought what has been coined...
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Whoever says thin clients aren’t sexy is wrong
Thin clients — affectionately referred to by some as dumb terminals — aren’t what they used to be. HP is making sure of that by adding features that are bound to turn heads as this Read Write Cloud...
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Is Facebook a media company or tech company?
Probably both. Facebook is, by and large, a media company rooted in technology. Almost a year ago, I blogged about their Open Compute Project and best practices that hopefully will lead to greater IT...
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The shift to the cloud and its two masters
The “Cloud” represents a foundational shift in how information is created, shared, stored, and protected across the data center, business, home, and mobile computing environments. Some argue that we...
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Hollywood’s infatuation with storage keeps growing
. One the most “entertaining” reports (if you can call research reports entertaining that is) is Coughlin Associates annual Digital Storage for Media and Entertainment. In fact, I blogged about the...
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Can hybrid drives bring added value to the data center?
Image by StorageReview.com A couple weeks ago, I posed the question: “Is there a market for a faster enterprise hard drive?” and offered up the argument that in the world of hard disk drives (HDDs)...
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The IT department is here to stay
It’s no secret that the job of an IT professional looks different than it did five or ten years ago. Terms like ‘big data,’ ‘BYOD,’ and ‘the cloud’ are no longer just buzz words; they’re now central...
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IT Pros: Seagate’s First in Enterprise Innovation
The Seagate Enterprise Turbo SSHD combines hard drive capacity with solid-state speed. —Guest Blog Contributor Steve Pipe IT professionals have selected Seagate as the 2013 innovation leader for...
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The times they are a-changin
At Seagate, we talk a lot about the changing role of the IT professional and how data storage is at the center of these changes. We’re a little obsessed with it, actually. And, although no one can be...
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Cloud Skeptics: Quit Denying. Start Exploiting.
Photo credit: Collaboration Enterprises CIOs and other IT executives met at Gartner’s Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit earlier this month. The discussion centered around why businesses are...
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IT Professionals Recognize Seagate Technology as an Innovation Leader
Last month IT professionals at the world’s leading companies and universities ranked Seagate as the top innovative brand in enterprise storage. IT Brand Pulse’s annual survey asked respondents whom...
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SysAdmins: Your Day Is Here & We Salute You!
Tired of being chased by marketers armed with buzzwords and slogans? Here’s a suggestion: The next time you get asked if you are a decision maker, tell them “No, but I tell them what to decide”. Here...
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What’s Impacting IT? Spiceworks Reports.
Photo Credit: Spiceworks Have you seen Spiceworks’ 2014 STATE of IT report yet? Not only is it packed full of really great information, it’s a beautiful piece of content (Well done, Spiceworks!). You...
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8TB In One Drive — How Does That Change IT?
Today, we announced we’re shipping the world’s first 8TB hard disk drive. This is a pretty big deal (no pun intended). When I first entered this industry the idea of fitting this much capacity on a...
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Seagate’s Big 8TB Drive Has Tech Press Buzzing
When Seagate announced last week that it is shipping the world’s first 8TB hard drive, the technology press stood up and took notice. Check out a roundup of coverage, below; click on the links for the...
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Whoops, my hard drive maxed out
My laptop just ran out of storage space. I’m so excited! No, of course I don’t actually enjoy computer trouble or unplanned disruptions. Whether working for a big company (like me) or running a small...
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