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300,000 beautiful Petabytes (and mostly enterprise)
It’s a good time to be an enterprise hard drive company… IDC’s John Rydning, IDC research director for drives told eWeek that over the next 5 years, the industry will ship more than 300,000 Petabytes...
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Do we need an FDIC for data?
I am thinking The Federal Data Insurance Corporation. Much like the FDIC we all know (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), this new organization(s) whether it’s public or private in nature would...
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Seagate’s non-storage storage solution
Today, Seagate issued a news alert that the award winning BlackArmor NAS 420/440 series is now available without hard drives giving do-it-yourself-ers the freedom to add whatever storage meets their...
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Dare I say there’s too much data
I came across a couple great posts on Forbes written by Dan Woods, chief technology officer and editor of Evolved Technologist. Who Is In Charge Of Your Data? Why Data Quality Matters Both talk about...
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What self-storage and digital storage have in common
In my Google Reader feed I have an alert setup for the word “storage” and mixed in this feed are posts about self-storage as well as digital storage. Reading some of the headlines associated with the...
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The hard drive market summed up by Col. Nathan R. Jessep
Friday rant…maybe I’m being over-sensitive here, but… …it seems that all I read about is this infatuation with the pending demise of the hard drive industry. The latest headline: “Smartphones outsell...
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Will the TSA want to “full body scan” your hard drive?
Your hard drive won’t protect you from being a dirtbag! According to this Forbes article, “The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week in a case of first impression that if you are carrying...
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Are hard drives destined to become application specific?
Will vertical application specialization trickle down to the hard drive level? When you consider hard drives today, with the exception of a select few, they are pretty vanilla and based largely on...
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Why is the gap widening? Connected devices to storage devices.
Source: IDC Market Research How can you not click through when you see this headline? “IDC: nearly 1 billion ‘smart connected devices’ shipped last year” Courtesy of this post on Engadget. According...
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Storage is storage, physical or digital, just one catch…
. I have to admit, I have a generic “storage” feed where about half of the articles cover the self storage industry, home organization, closet organizing…you know, the storing of physical stuff. One...
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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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Six Features Every Small Business Network Needs Right Now — Business Storage
Simply put, small businesses need safe, secure, convenient, turn-key solutions for managing data. Small business owners and managers wear many hats, with very little bandwidth to deal with catastrophic...
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Can you build a flying robot brain? 3D Robotics can, and they’re using NAS to...
Need to build a flying robot brain? Not a simple task. John Cherbini knows just how complicated the development process is. He’s a VP at 3D Robotics, and we asked him how they’ve dealt with 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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6 ways a private cloud can ease business woes
A Business Storage NAS can be your businesses' personal, secure cloud If you’re an entrepreneur or running a small business, keeping your data organized and available has never been easier — thanks...
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Expect the Unexpected at Dahua Booth — ASIS 2014
— Guest blog by Tim Shen, Marketing Director at Dahua Technology, a world-leading manufacturer and supplier of video surveillance products ASIS 2014 is open today though October 2, and Seagate is...
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14 reasons you should start your own business
Are you ready to dive in? Are you an entrepreneur at heart? Are you itching to start your business but not sure when’s the right time to dive in — or if the debt will be too much, the hours too long,...
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Can “Total Business Backup” be this easy? 10 minutes?
What does a small business want — really want — from its data storage system? If you run a small business, or if you’re an IT consultant or system builder for businesses, you know the answers:...
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Need more capacity, performance and backup? How to set up a RAID NAS.
What to do with all those disks? “Augh! My business is growing! I need lots more storage, and I need always-on backup! … Do I really have to learn how to set up a RAID??” What to do with all those...
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Small business: Plan to prevent cyber attacks
Nobody needs to tell small business owners about the risk of cyber attacks — the daily news is rife with examples of large and small businesses hacked for their customer data or their banking...
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