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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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Savvio 10K.5 shows 2.5-inch form factor benefits and earns RealWorld Labs award

RealWorld Labs spent time with the latest Savvio 10K.5 900GB enterprise drive and compared it against a 10K-rpm Toshiba model. The Savvio 10K.5 is built on a 2.5-inch enterprise form factor standard, which is designed to maximize performance density in data center racks while at the same time reducing overall power consumption compared to 3.5-inch [...]

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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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How a Seagate hard drive can help give you a two-week vacation

I was chatting with Seagate’s Momentus XT product marketing manager Joni Clark the other day when I asked her, “So what’s the average difference in bootup time between a standard laptop drive and the current Momentus XT?” “Standard 5,400 rpm will do it in 80 seconds while Momentus XT averages about 40 seconds,” she said. [...]

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It’s data that continues to drive the industry, says IDC

We blogged about Q2 2010’s data growth last September, and it’s hard to believe it’s been another year already! And maybe more surprising to some is that there’s not been any “doom and gloom” in our industry this year – even with a challenging economy – as IDC has reported another year of explosive storage [...]

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If They Build it… Will You Come?

In IT, there is a mantra: “build it and they will come” and Cloud Computing is no exception. Everyone is gearing to “doing something in the Cloud” – building it, servicing it, delivering it, reselling it… Vendors, distributors, channel partners are all getting ready to participate.  Cisco just launched their new Channel “cloud” go-to-market strategy, [...]

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T’is the Season… for Predictions!

It’s a new year and future predictions are everywhere.  As businesses start to invest in technology again, looking at what will drive innovation and investment becomes very important. Gartner predicts four major trends in IT for 2011: 1. How people share and collaborate or “The information-centric organization” 2. How information is organized and protected or [...]

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Storage industry: Contradiction in 2010, Clarification in 2011?

While Seagate is looking for “Your Story”, CRN posted their 2010 storage stories. And, the year was full of contradictions. The industry revenue numbers grew in 2010 but the number of players shrunk. Storage vendors’ revenue improved as the demand for data continues to grow at an amazing pace – IDC published a 55% annual [...]

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Comdex Virtual Day 1

Seagate participated in Comdex Virtual, hosted November 16 and 17 by Everything Channel, and I have to say,  the event was packed with in great presentations, high profile keynotes, and insights for solution providers, Value Added Resellers and IT professionals. One of the advantages of those events is for Channel Partners to better understand the [...]

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