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!
Categories: Random
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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Tagged: blog, moved, Pete Steege, Seagate, storage effect
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!
Categories: Random
Tagged: disk drive, FreeAgent Go, frozen, Ice rink, Pete Steege, Seagate, storage effect
BusinessWeek says it’s stylish, affordable, and simple to use
Simplicity stands out in BusinessWeek’s review of the Seagate FreeAgent Go. So true! The biggest challenge with consumer technology in general remains its ability to be used by normal people.
As digital content moves into every corner of our lives, the winning products will be those that meet us where we are, and don’t try to turn us all into techno geeks.
Categories: Backup · Digital Home · Products
Tagged: BusinessWeek, christmas gift, FreeAgent Go, portable storage, review, Seagate
75% less power and 70% less space than 3.5″ drives
HP’s making the move to 300GB 2.5″ SAS drives. The Seagate-built drive is twice the capacity of previous 2.5″ SAS drives. HP began shipping the Savvio 10K 300GB SAS drive worldwide to resellers this week.
This is another step in the rapid enterprise storage form factor transition underway. 2.5″ is mainstream for datacenters starting now.
Categories: Business Solutions · Datacenter · Storage Systems
Tagged: 2.5", 300GB, disk drive, HP, Pete Steege, SAS, Savvio, Seagate, storage, storage effect
Seagate recently launched two portable drives with very different personalities. Why? One size no longer fits all. But which drive is right for you?
Seagate FreeAgent Go - a great personal drive. It’s the thinnest portable drive in the world, with up to 500 GB and a desktop dock.
I use the FreeAgent Go for my personal data. I can drop the Go into a dock at work and easily use the files on my work PC. I don’t have to mix my personal and work content, but have access to both.
Maxtor BlackArmor – a great business drive. It’s the safest drive in the world, with government-grade 128-bit AES encryption and up to 320 GB.
I use the BlackArmor for backing up my work files. I keep it at home as a simple disaster recovery scheme. There is absolutely no risk of anyone accessing the data without the password, even if it were to fall out of my bag at a hacker’s convention.
Take your pick!
Categories: Backup · Data Security · Digital Home · Products · Video blog
Tagged: 320 GB, 500 GB, Backup, BlackArmor, encryption, FreeAgent Go, Maxtor, portable storage, Seagate
Get your storage on in 11 colors - straight from Seagate
The new Seagate FreeAgent Go from Seagate has been widely available in four colors.
Now Seagate has expanded the patette to 11 colors – available exclusively on Seagate’s website.
Not a revolutionary thing, but a big step for Seagate. Consumers want choice and convenience, no matter how technical the product’s innards.
Storage can be fun!
Categories: Digital Home · Products
Tagged: colors, FreeAgent Go, portable storage, Seagate, seagate.com
It takes care of data so time-strapped staff don’t have to
Seagate introduced the Maxtor CentralAxis Business Edition, network storage for small businesses. Like its little brother for the home, CentralAxis BE is a game changer.
Unlike traditional storage solutions that are add-on afterthoughts and don’t always work well together, CentralAxis BE puts the content first. It’s a single central storage solution that makes managing the changing demands for storage simpler and safer as a business grows:
Need more space? Add another CentralAxis BE.
At some point you’ll probably need a more complicated solution. You can put your IT department on that task…once your big enough to hire one.
Categories: Backup · Business Solutions · Data Security · Products
Tagged: Backup, Business Edition, CentralAxis, Maxtor, network storage, Seagate, small business
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator adds self-encrypting PC drives to its bag of security tricks
There’s a security industry axiom that says “It’s better to place the guard next to the jewels.” With McAfeee’s latest move, it looks like the information security industry is taking that to heart by bringing self-encrypting disk drives (SED) into the mainstream mix of security infrastructure elements.
Unlike software-based encryption, SED drives like Seagate’s Momentus FDE drives encrypt everything written to a drive, at the drive. This takes away potential ‘back doors’ or access points to PC data and encrypts at full speed. It makes encryption hackproof and “free” from a performance and individual PC management standpoint.
What’s been lacking are the hooks in some enterprise management tools like McAfee’s ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) that simplify management of self-encrypting PCs. Wave Systems, SECUDE International and others already support Momentus SED.
McAfee’s announcement makes SED an easy-to-add security tool for a much broader market. Expect rapid growth in SED as more companies place more guards next to their digital crown jewels.
Categories: Data Security · Laptop PC
Tagged: encryption, ePO, ePolicy Orchestrator, FDE, McAfee, Momentus, notebook, Seagate, SECUDE, security, SED, self-encrypting drives, Wave Systems
