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Over the course of 2009, the priority for many small business owners in terms of marketing has been focused on attracting new customers. - Seagate

You have 4 full days left to take some old drives and create some great toys for the kids. - Seagate

Tech Crunch reports that in addition to Google’s Nexus One phone, it has issued a highly secretive RFP to ODMs for a Google branded netbook. - Seagate

In the wacky Change-O-Rama that is the technology industry, what’s not changing is in some ways more interesting than what is. - Seagate

In a recent study conducted by Symantec and Applied Research found that over 1/3 of SMBs do not backup their virtual server environments. - Seagate

Ask an IT manager if his data center is growing, and he should say, “It depends.” - Seagate

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. - December 14, 2009 - Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) today announced the Momentus ® Thin drive, the world’s thinnest 2.5-inch hard disk drive for ultra-portable and entry-level laptops, high-end netbooks, backup devices and consumer electronics. At a wafer-thin 7mm in height – 25 percent slimmer than traditional 9.5mm 2.5-inch laptop hard drives – the Momentus Thin drive gives original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and system integrators significantly lower cost-per-gigabyte storage than solid state and 1.8-inch drives, enabling a new breed of entry-level thin laptops. - Seagate

Today, Seagate announced the world’s thinnest notebook hard drives – Momentus Thin – at capacities of 160GB and 250GB. - Seagate

Wow, SSD is a hot topic! It’s fast, it’s sleek and it definitely gets a lot of attention. With Seagate’s recent release our first SSD for enterprise storage applications (Pulsar), the chatter in the blogosphere was almost palpable. Well, at least it was for us geeky-dweebs in the storage industry. - Seagate

Check out Ctera Networks. ChannelWeb blogs about them as one of the emerging vendors in the channel. - Seagate

Conventional wisdom is that the next big transition in laptop storage will be SSD. - Seagate

The biggest news out of Seagate this week is the announcement of Pulsar – Seagate’s first foray into the SSD market. - Seagate

With today’s announcement of Seagate’s Pulsar SSD product, Enterprise customers now have a viable solution for I/O-intensive, high performance blade and general application server storage environments. - Seagate

Check out this timeline…. hard drive storage is as much to credit for the internet world in which we live today and in whatever the future holds. - Seagate

As gold hit its’ record high of $1,226.10 an ounce this week, it’s one of the safest investments out there … as is the data security offered with Self-Encrypted Drive (SED) technology. - Seagate

Remember when system builders catered to SMBs that wanted desktop PCs customized to their liking and at prices that the big OEMs could not match. - Seagate

SSD is emerging as a viable option for some enterprise applications, but it will be awhile before its mature enough for the most critical applications. Until then, data centers will do just fine with the newest crop of 6Gb/s SAS drives. - Seagate

According to Welcomemat, video is quickly catching up to still photography as the most preferred format for consumers exploring new properties. - Seagate

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the year and think about what each of us is thankful for. - Seagate

Once upon a time there was a technology named Flash. Flash was shiny and very exciting. Everyone had high hopes for her. Flash wanted to Make a Difference, so she went to the Wizard of Applications for advice. - Seagate

InfoStor’s article on 6Gb/s SAS and 8 Gb/s FC is titled “The Need for Speed“. Aptly named, as unlike typical ’speed bumps’, this round of interface speed doubling may be needed right away. And from their interface forecast, it’s clear that SAS will play a much bigger role than FC going forward. - Seagate

Got this chart in my inbox today from Applied Computer Research. Number of Business Locations Supported by IT All Respondents in all Vertical Markets Source: Inside IT Departments: Comparing Organization Size to IT Infrastructure and Usage Traits, by Applied Computer Research, Inc. Number of Business Locations Supported by IT (All Respondents in all Vertical Markets) - Seagate

We’ve long been fans of Seagate for data storage options, going as far back as 2006 with a great little pocket-sized external drive, all the way up through the massive two terabyte NAS. - Seagate

SPRINGTOWN, Northern Ireland - November 20, 2009 - Some 250 young people in the North West were challenged this month to consider pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics—collectively referred to as the STEM subjects—at the Seagate Real World Science Conference. - Seagate

Bigger is better in the disk drive world. But you might be surprised at how much better. - Seagate

Timelines are cool – you can see how technology has evolved over the years in pictures. - Seagate

Recently, in the US the House passed healthcare reform by a slim margin, and now it heads the Senate. - Seagate

Xbit Labs performed the mother of all SAS drive tests. Seventeen SAS 3.5″ drives run through the gauntlet on performance, capacity, power – you name it. - Seagate

Send in a picture of yourself, a friend or a family member from 1979 and be entered to win a 320GB FreeAgent Go. - Seagate

Seagate Technology – the hard drive company that has been around for 30 years – actually has a complete set of products that can enable a home entertainment system that is beyond your imagination! - Seagate