Flash Storage dominates the headlines. But as a storage medium its availability is, at a minimum, constrained and more than likely the industry will see a shortfall of available flash for the foreseeable future. The problem is it takes billions…
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Flash Portfolio’s Matter – Seagate Flash Memory Summit Briefing Note
Flash storage is evolving on three vectors. Performance continues to be the key vector. Most data centers buy flash because of its performance attributes; high IOPS and low latency. The second vector is density. Flash has the ability to provide…
Flash + SMR = Storage Density and Performance
Cloud and traditional data centers face two competing challenges. The first is meeting the ever-increasing demand for performance. Flash, in its various forms, can meet these requirements. On the other end of the spectrum is meeting the demands of storing all the data we create. The answer to these environments has not been as simple. Flash, by itself, is not the answer due to its higher cost per GB. SMR hard drives improve the ability to meet capacity demands, but have limited random write performance. By coupling SMR drives with flash, these two technologies can create a very practical solution which enables adoption without significant change to the existing infrastructure. In this article we will discuss how SMR drives work and how they can be coupled with flash to meet both of these challenges
ChalkTalk Video: How to Create Highly Dense, Solid Performing Storage Infrastructures
When you are storing petabytes of information, saving pennies a gigabyte can make a big difference. Not only do pennies make a difference for cloud service providers, online application providers and managed service providers but so does density. The ability…
Briefing Note: Why buy a Backup Appliance from a Disk Drive Vendor?
Seagate CSS (Cloud Systems and Solutions), a division of this long-time disk drive manufacturer, was put together to develop storage infrastructure solutions for the hyper-scale cloud provider and OEM markets, among others. More than just a component manufacturer ‘moving up…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Hybrid, Hyper-scale, PBBA, Replication, Seagate, SMB, Software Defined
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Seagate’s Kinetic Drives reduce Object Storage costs – now GA
After a one-year incubation, Seagate’s Kinetic Open Storage Platform is now generally available. It features disk drives that communicate with applications over Ethernet, using a key-value architecture and RESTful APIs, instead of traditional protocols like SCSI or SATA. What’s different…
Tagged with: Capacity, Hard Drive, JBOD, Object, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Seagate, TCO
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Seagate’s NAS Pro may be all the Cloud an SMB Needs
The proliferation of mobile devices and cloud-based services is a good indicator of how people are working nowadays – and what a small company’s storage system needs to provide. It’s all about collaboration and presenting ‘anywhere, anytime, on any device’…
Seagate’s Kinetic Drives improve Cloud Storage TCO and Performance
In an earlier column we talked about the world’s insatiable appetite for storage and the gap between projected demand and supply of that capacity. In response to this demand disk drive companies are thinking beyond the drive, to the array…
Tagged with: Areal Density, Capacity, Cloud, Density, Hard Drive, Seagate, Shingled Magnetic Recording, SMR
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Seagate plans 20TB Hard Drives… but we’ll still need more!
At their second Industry Analyst Cloud Summit in San Francisco last week, Seagate shared some information that we’ve heard many times: the amount of data being created is almost incomprehensible. But they said something that many probably haven’t heard before:…
Tagged with: Areal Density, Capacity, Cloud, Density, Hard Drive, Seagate, Shingled Magnetic Recording, SMR
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Seagate’s CSS offers a White box with a Logo
At the Next-Gen Storage Summit, Storage Switzerland had a chance to talk with Seagate’s Cloud Systems and Solutions (CSS) group, a new division that came out of their acquisitions of disk array manufacturer Xyratex and eVault, the cloud backup provider.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commodity Hardware, Converged Architecture, Infrastructure, Next Generation Storage Summit, Seagate, Software Defined
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