SSD technology has been one of the top enterprise headlines of the past year, with proponents talking up its speed, lower operating costs and small form factor as major advances over current hard disk technology. Leave it to the hard disk manufacturers to throw cold water on the party.
Love them or hate them, it seems that the enterprise's enthusiasm for private clouds is gaining steam.
Arthur Cole spoke with Bruce Master, senior program manager for IBM's Tape Storage Systems/The LTO Program, about new generations of LTO tape in the enterprise.
If your data center provides the same level of service while your energy bill goes down, you're probably on the right track.
The fact is that the typical data center already has the raw power to meet just about any data load you care to throw at it. It's just that we've had a hard time adequately distributing those resources to meet data requirements.
SSDs and hard disk drives excel in different aspects of the storage equation, so it really wasn't a surprise when Seagate decided to put the two together.
