Consumers have gotten themselves into a bit of a pickle. PCs, cameras and DVRs have brought them painlessly into the wonderful world of digital content without them even knowing it. [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Backup, Products
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Also tagged Backup, camera, data protection, digital, dvr, movies, Music, no touch, One Touch, pc, Pete Steege, photos, Replica, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, simple
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February 17, 2009 – 7:46 am
This video from a few years back is still technologically relevant. While video game effects age pretty quickly (although I’m still impressed with the detail 2K Sports had in its [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Consumer Storage, Trends
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Also tagged 2K Sports, disk drive, Flash, game console, gaming console, Pete Steege, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, storage, video games
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February 4, 2009 – 7:37 am
Just as processing power increases created the PC Era in the 20th Century, broadband increases are creating this century’s Network Era. The
GigaOm points to five game-changing applications enabled by [....]
January 7, 2009 – 8:22 am
iPodMeister pays to rip your music – in exchange for your CDs
Here’s more evidence that content is becoming legal tender. Randy Salas at the Minneapolis StarTribune gave iPodMeister his 2,000 [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Backup, Trends
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Also tagged CD, currency, digital, iPodMeister, Minneapolis, Pete Steege, Randy Salas, ripping, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, StarTribune
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January 5, 2009 – 1:58 pm
You can live forever digitally for a “nominal price”.
Here’s another contributor to the growth of content in the world: information immortality.
nEternity is offering to keep your digital life – photos, music, [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Backup, Companies, Trends
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Also tagged Backup, data, forever, insurance, nEternity, Pete Steege, Seagate Blogs, storage, tape
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October 31, 2008 – 8:44 am
A company that lives on content grapples with storing it all
TechCrunch is watching Facebook struggle with success. Their astounding growth in unique visits and page views – up to 35 billion [....]
October 22, 2008 – 8:33 am
1. HD broadcast/media is going mainstream. HD video takes 4 times the space of SD video on PCs, DVRs and the web infrastructure.
2. Higher fidelity music downloads. Apple and others race to [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Trends
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Also tagged Backup, cloud storage, downloads, growth, hd, HIPAA, photos, recession, server virtualization, SOX, storage, surveillance, trends, video, Virtualization
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The Internet infrastructure is incredibly storage dense, and will become even more so
Historically, “infractructures” have been a means to get from here to there: railways, waterways, [....]
February 7, 2008 – 5:07 pm
Look out world – here come digital downloads!
This post on Egypt’s problems with network outages seemed mundane when I first read it. But then I read between the [....]
January 11, 2008 – 2:54 pm
Ann at GigaOm reviewed “The Big Switch”, Nick Carr’s follow-on to “Does IT Matter?”.
I agree that the Big Switch is a good thing. Change is always scary, but that doesn’t [....]
