The Storage Effect has moved to the newly expanded Seagate blog section of seagate.com. Come visit me there and subscribe for any of the new Seagate blogs.
I’m also posting to a new blog at Seagate, focused specifically on IT storage called Inside IT Storage.
Come join the conversations!
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Tagged: blog, new address, Pete Steege, Seagate, storage effect, subscribe
Visit Storage Effect at its new location
I’m excited to be moving Storage Effect into better accommodations on seagate.com. From now on, you can find Storage Effect at http://media.seagate.com/center/storage-effect .
It’s been a blast growing the blog “off the radar”. But taking advantage of the Seagate infrastructure will free me to focus more on the blog content and less on the site.
For you it means exposure to Seagate’s burgeoning blog scene. I won’t spoil the surprise, but we’re not calling the page “Seagate Blogs” for nothing. You’ll also have easier access to videos and other cool content being generated at Seagate.
Be sure to change your Storage Effect link or subscribe to my new RSS feed to stay connected.
See you there!
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My url is changing, but not my blog
I’m excited to be moving Storage Effect into better accommodations on seagate.com. From now on, you can find Storage Effect at http://media.seagate.com/center/storage-effect .
It’s been a blast growing the blog “off the radar”. But taking advantage of the Seagate infrastructure will free me to focus more on the blog content and less on the site.
For you it means exposure to Seagate’s burgeoning blog scene. I won’t spoil the surprise, but we’re not calling the page “Seagate Blogs” for nothing. You’ll also have easier access to videos and other cool content being generated at Seagate.
Be sure to change your Storage Effect link or subscribe to my new RSS feed to stay connected.
See you there!
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Tagged: moved, new location, Seagate, seagate.com, storage effect
Check it out at my new digs on seagate.com!
Yes, I’m moving on up to a better place in the Mother Ship.
Storage Effect’s location is changing, but not the content. Expect to see more of the same, including the first installment of the continuing saga of my frozen Seagate FreeAgent Go portable drive.
The new url is http://media.seagate.com/center/storage-effect . Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed for the new page.
Hope to see you there soon!
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Tagged: disk drive, FreeAgent Go, frozen, Ice rink, Pete Steege, Seagate, storage effect
If storage isn’t a big enough part of your work life, how about bringing it home for the Holidays?
This enterprising chap turned 70 old SCSI disk drives into a one terabyte tannenbaum.
If he had used today’s latest small form factor enterprise SAS drives (like the 300GB Seagate Savvio), he would have would have had 21 terabytes to string with tinsel.
Something to plan for next year, Philip?
Happy Holidays to Storage Effect readers wherever you are. I wish you the very best in 2009.
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Tagged: 1 TB, Christmas tree, disk drives, Pete Steege, SAS, SCSI, storage effect
Could technology be moving beyond Geek Chic?
We’ve all seen quirky thumb drives that turn heads. But there are signs that storage and technology in general are moving into the fashion mainstream.
The Bejing Times recently reported on a fashion show at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology that presented outfits inspired by technology accessories. From the caption: “Designer Lyla introduced her designs based on Seagate’s fashionable digital products.”
Is technology fashion moving beyond Geek Chic? Not for a geezer like me. But my 20ish neices carry their cell phones like my mom carried lipstick.
UPDATE: more photos from the event here.
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Tagged: Beijing, Beijing Institue for Fashion Technology, China, fashion, FreeAgent Go, storage, thumb drive
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Tagged: Cisco, Dell, stack the memory, video
Adversity creates opportunity. Will the Cloud be able to exploit it?
Adversity changes things. My dad often told me “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” In Technology, things are constantly changing already. But adversity can accelerate change or even incite a disruptive seachange to a new business model.
IDC thinks this is happening now with online storage.
Businesses that have been reluctant to put their precious data in the Cloud are now being economically compelled to do so. They’ll hold their breath and jump…and likely find that their fears were largely unfounded.
Those of you in the Cloud business: get ready! You’re going to get a chance to break out with a broader set of Pragmatists and even Late Adopters that wouldn’t normally knock on your door.
With this crowd, you’ll only get one chance to make a first impression.
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Solving the “data on the loose” problem starts with safer loose data
Despite an almost daily cadence of news stories about exposed customer data, most IT departments seem resigned to the fact that their number might be called. It’s just fate, right? What are they supposed to do – ban thumb drives? Restrict notebook PCs to the office?
New products from Dell, Seagate and others are finally providing realistic solutions. For a small premium to standard notebooks and mobile storage devices, companies can now make their employees data loss-proof with self-encrypted disk drive technology like Seagate’s Seagate Secure.
Blesssed by the NSA
These notebooks and portable drives can still be lost or stolen, but the data is 100% protected with government-grade 128-bit AES encryption. The incident remains an inconvenient hassle rather than a newspaper headline.
Even the NSA has given this technology a thumbs-up.
Unlike software solutions, the disk drives in these products are encrypted automatically so employees can’t turn it off or forget to turn it on. There is no performance penalty. Laptop passwords can be centrally managed with McAfee’s ePolicy Orchestrator and other vendors’ products.
While mobile encryption doesn’t plug every hole in your defenses (malicious or misguided workers, for instance), it does provide a foundation of security that you can build upon.
Let’s hear from users (or panners) of this technology – what do you think?
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Tagged: BlackArmor, employee mobility, encryption, ePO, ePolicy Orchestrator, FDE, McAfee, Momentus FDE, National Security Agency, NSA, Seagate Secure, security, SED
SSD sounds great, but the reality doesn’t match the dream
Solid State Technology talked to Seagate and Fujitsu SSD leaders and came to the same conclusions posted here before - SSDs for notebooks may sound like a great match, but it’s just not happening.
Why? Price – big difference! Boot time and battery life – little to no difference.
Yes, there are small opportunities for ultra-high end early adopters and ultra-portable mini-PCs. But the total opportunity for SSDs over the next several years will be miniscule compared to disk drives.
Enterprise is a larger and more profitable niche for SSDs – but even there the opportunity is at the tip of the storage iceberg that will remain dominated by disk.
Any SSD users out there that disagree?
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Tagged: Flash, Fujitsu, laptop, notebook, Rich Vignes, Seagate, SSD
