November 3, 2009 – 8:13 am
SSD is all the rage in the storage industry. Very exciting technology for sure and just now going Prime Time in the enterprise. But the rise of SSDs does [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in SSD, Technology, Trends
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Also tagged Carnegie Mellon, disk drive, Flash, hard drive, hdd, IEEE, IEEE Transactions, magnetics, Mark Kryder, Seagate, SSD
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Buried in the details of Seagate’s Q4 earnings report released yesterday are three very interesting facts:
132 million units shipped industry-wide during the quarter, essentially flat from the year-ago quarter
Over [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Notebook PC, Trends
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Also tagged data, demand, disk drive, earnings, economy, growth, laptop, notebook, Q2, Seagate, units
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Image source: Cisco
Some say we’re now in the Terabyte Era, due to the size of today’s largest disk drives - two terabytes.
Others say we’re in the Petabyte Era [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Random, Technology, Trends
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Also tagged 2 TB, 2 terabyte, barracuda lp, Cisco, digital footprint, disk drive, EMC, exabyte, exploding universe, IDC, petabyte, terabyte, zettabyte
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In StorageMojo’s analysis of the EMC bid to take Data Domain from NetApp, Robin Harris quoted Chuck Hollis of EMC on why the deal makes sense:
From a storage perspective, [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in IT Storage, SSD, Technology, Trends
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Also tagged Chuck Hollis, compression, costs, Data Domain, deduplication, disk drives, EMC, Flash, IT, linear access, NetApp, random access, Robin Harris, Seagate, SSD, StorageMojo, tape, trash compactor, turbocharger
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I worked for StorageTek at the turn of the millenium, during the Tape Wars. EMC was saying “Tape is dead.” StorageTek claimed otherwise, and their steady tape business pretty much disproved [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in SSD, Technology, Trends, Uncategorized
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Also tagged Amara's Law, disk drive, EMC, Institute for the Future, Roy Amara, Seagate, SSD, StorageTek, tape
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Chris Mellor at The Register notes that IDC sees enterprise storage revenue coming down 6.7% in 2009, then rebounding 1.3% in 2010. The culprit seems to be slowing server sales.
No surprise [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Data Center, Technology, Trends
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Also tagged 2009, 2010, business, capacity, Chris Mellor, enterprise, external storage, forecast, IDC, iSCSI, nas, revenue, SAN, The Register
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I found a bronzed model of a 5 1/4″ disk drive circa 1980. It got me thinking about how we’ve come from then to now.
Seagate created the first 5 1/4″ [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Technology, Trends
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Also tagged 1980, 1983, 2.5", 3.5", 5.25", cost per MB, cost per megabyte, disk drive, Flash, format, future, history, Pete Steege, PrairieTek, Rodime, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, SSD, ST-506, video
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February 23, 2009 – 8:08 am
Seth Godin points out that the effect of the transformation of the music industry is in the eye of the beholder:
There’s never been a time like this before. So if your focus [....]
February 19, 2009 – 6:49 am
Source: Ryan Companies
I love Home Depot. But I shop just as often at my local Ace Hardware store. I go to Home Depot for big purchases, and stop [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Cloud Storage, Data Center, Trends
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Also tagged Ace Hardware, Cloud, Home Depot, HP, In-house IT, outsourcing, Pete Steege, Russ Daniels, Seagate Blogs, storage
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