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Just another company award to brag about?

I’m sure you want to read another blog about how great Seagate is, with all our awards and stuff — and if so, you’re in for a treat! But seriously, I do want to talk about an award, and I promise you this one’s a little different. Seagate was named one of “2011’s Best Companies [...]

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Less choice means more? Behind the simplified approach of Seagate’s latest Barracuda

The new Barracuda family was announced today – you can check out the press release here – and it takes a different approach than previous Seagate products. You’ll notice that this Barracuda doesn’t tout itself as being the “greenest” like the Barracuda Green or the “fastest” like Barracuda XT. Nope, those drives are actually going [...]

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How flash memory is strengthening the market for hard disk drives

You’ve probably heard or read about marketers and vendors who have predicted the demise of hard disk drives (HDDs). Here’s something that digs into the story and reveals exactly why that’s not going to happen. The Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD site recently published an article about how tablets – which use flash memory for storage [...]

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“Aha” Moment

What will the SMBs focus on in 2011? The SMB Group shared their Top 10 predictions and no big surprises:  mobility, cloud computing, unified communication and social media were all on the list. The surprise for me was their predictions around content.  As the latest Digital Universe study from IDC pointed out:  1.2 zettabytes of [...]

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Technology refresh needed at SMH(ospitals)

HIMSS Analytics together with Dell surveyed healthcare IT executives and found that small to medium sized hospitals are expected to experience a 25 to 50% increase in  demand on their data centers over the next 2 years. What’s contributing to this increase: Electronic Health Records Digital Imaging Health Information Exchange Business Intelligence Data security According [...]

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Smarter data rolls faster downhill

Last week I posted, “Smarter data in a shorter period of time“, that talks about how businesses are demanding more out of their data in terms of providing the intelligence they need to grow, and they want it now! Today, AMI Partners released a “5 SMB trends that the industry isn’t talking about” that takes [...]

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Smarter data in a shorter period of time

We all know that data is exploding at both the user level and the company level.  In recent years, we have gone beyond just managing data growth to exploiting it. Business Intelligence is expected to continue to grow steadily in 2010 according to a recent study conducted by kognitio and Baseline Consulting of BI companies, [...]

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Small Business health – take your vitamins

Data is the lifeblood of any business… I think I may have even said this in the past.  Spoken  like a true storage guy. But in all actuality, customers are the lifeblood of any business.  Finding, retaining, and growing a customer base will make or break a business of any size.  Where data comes in [...]

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Storage cuts costs and increases revenue

 In one of the first posts for Storage Means Business, I spoke of small business sur-thrival.  It seems that Microsoft shares the same view. In their 2009 SMB Insight  report (click to download), it appears they too think small businesses are much more resiliant to recessions than large businesses and think that over half will actually maintain [...]

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