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It’s all in a day’s work: Save 40 hours and Thousands of dollars

Guest post by Aubrey Muhlach Global Marketing Manager – Security Seagate Technology What do you store on your computer? Personal bank documents, social security numbers, photos from your freshman year at college – not exactly what you’d want floating around for just anyone to see. How…

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10 reasons the cloud and food are one in the same

Working on cloud for Seagate, I spend a lot of time trying to explain what cloud is to friends and family who have no idea what I am talking about.  It’s no fault of their own. Sometimes the concept of cloud can be confusing to people, especially those that dont spend a bulk of their [...]

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It’s a cloud enabled social media mobile world of big data

Did I hit all of the tech buzzwords in the title of this post or what?  I’m not trying to take advantage of any keyword search algorithm to get more views, but if it happens, all the better. The intention of the title is to paraphrase what Frank Gens, Senior Vice President and Chief Analyst…

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Where’s our sense of ownership going?

. Remember when you would proudly display your album collection, DVDs, CDs, books, photos, etc. on huge shelving units in your family room, office, etc.?  There was a sense of pride in the collections we have accumulated over the years whether they were baseball cards or figurines. Those days…

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Eyebrow raising quotes from GigaOM Structure

. This week, GigaOM hosted their Structure conference In San Francisco where some (if not most) of the who’s who in the cloud share their visions, opinions, and prognostications around the hype that is the cloud. Based on the coverage of the event, and the conversations and comments made in…

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Why the cloud is “rent vs buy” for many businesses

That’s one of the questions raised in this Minneapolis Star Tribune article titled “Questioning the Cloud.” Star Tribune journalist Steve Alexander speaks with Minneapolis based SparkWeave about their business model, how they feel about the onslaught of buzz around the largest public cloud providers like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM, and why private clouds are the way [...]

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What Intel and Seagate now have in common

Everyone’s heard that Intel has purchased McAfee for some $7+ Billion dollars.  With the acquisition, Intel looks to better integrate security in nearly everything they make, with mobile devices and cloud solutions (servers & storage) being of the utmost priority. Paul Otellini, Intel’s CEO, said in a statement, “In the past, energy-efficient performance and connectivity have [...]

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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 insure businesses from data loss or breach. Today this is wrapped up in terms like backup, disaster recovery, encryption, replication, etc. there are many ways [...]

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Laptop performance doesn’t have to cost an arm or a leg – or battery life

  I asked Seagate’s Joni Clark what to think about when choosing a laptop hard drive.  It’s more than just the obvious capacity choice.  Things like performance, encryption and drop protection. Check out Joni’s response in the video.  Sometimes you can get something for nothing.  The Seagate Momentus 7200 rpm drive runs faster but uses no [...]

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The “evil maid” hack can’t touch self-encrypting drives

There’s a new chink in the armor of software-based drive encryption – the Evil Maid Hack.  Privacy Digest explains how it works.  Just like hacks before it (remember Cold Boot?), the Evil Maid doesn’t work on self-encrypting hard drives like those from Seagate.  That’s because encryption is hard-wired into the drive and automatically locks it when power is [...]

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