Seagate Sr. Manager of Corporate communications Jon Piazza spoke with the guys over at Xbit Labs last week about the future of data storage. The hot topic seems to be the use of Helium inside hard drives and the viability of such a move. Check out the Xbit Labs article: ”Seagate Doubts…
. As StorageNewsletter.com puts it, hard drive shipments are expected to hit a record level this year at 524 Million units. “The 2012 number will be the highest shipment figure on record in the HDD books at year-end-but the achievement will not stand for long. In fact, HDD shipments are…
. Looking back over the past year’s worth of blog posts, it no surprise the topics I have covered most frequently are BYOD, Cloud, and Big Data. The truth of the matter is that these three trends are not occurring in a vacuum. When it comes to storage, they actually are feeding one another. When…
Source: Seagate Market Research & Competitive Intelligence. Consider what this chart tells us… In 2011, 450 Exabytes were shipped, 25% of which went into the cloud. In 2020, 7000 Exabytes (7 Zettabytes) will ship, 60% of which will go in the cloud. That’s a 15x growth in total…
In my last post, I talked about how Data is the 21st century version of the California Gold Rush. Well, if this infographic does not scream, “there’s data in them there hills,” I don’t know what will. Just look at the data within this data…more people online creating…
. “When thinking about the value of the data a company collects vs. the traditional value of theproduct it may produce, collecting and analyzing broad categories of customer + product data is becoming equally — if not more — valuable than the product itself,” writes Ken…
. When it comes to hard drives, SSDs, or Solid State Hybrid Drives for consumer data storage, it’s all good. If you haven’t already, check out this post on Forbes by Tom Coughlin titled “Digital Storage Needs the Right Stuff.” “…Although there are some markets…
. “The rise of bring your own device (BYOD) programs is the single most radical shift in the economics of client computing for business since PCs invaded the workplace, according to Gartner, Inc.” That is one seriously bold statement, and one that is difficult to argue against. The era…
. I remember when storage innovation from companies like Seagate would drive the storage market. Innovations like a new interface (SAS), recording design and capacity (PMR, HAMR, etc.), or even form factor (3.5-inch, 2.5-inch, etc.). Back then, the device suppliers were the dog, and they wagged…
The Gartner Hype Cycle is always a great source for up and coming technologies, technologies on the downswing, and those that are ramping up to become mainstream. The latest 2012 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies does just that. In Gartner’s post “Gartner’s 2012 Hype…
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