Atlanta-based DC BLOX is delivering much-needed IT infrastructure and bandwidth to growing, but largely underserved, “edge” markets in the Southeast United States. By providing state-of-the-art cloud storage powered by Seagate Data Storage Systems, internet access, and colocation services to customers off the beaten path, DC BLOX is enabling innovation and digital transformation for the businesses and communities they serve. Their mission statement: “DC BLOX exists to empower growing communities where secure, reliable multi-tenant data centers and rich connectivity options are limited. Our fou ..read more

Datasets are the raw ingredients of knowledge. The cloud-native revolution is fueled by an unprecedented rate of developing methods and applications to transform data into information and knowledge. Seagate’s internal deployment of smart manufacturing offers just one example. The amount of potential knowledge is staggering when we consider the diverse types and enormous amounts of data can be gathered via a plethora of sensors and IoT devices. Only the limits set by the available physical storage systems may impede the rate of gaining knowledge. As businesses attempt to expand data gathering ..read more

Supercomputing Gets More Personal: Modular, Flexible, Agile The Reasons High-Performance Computing (HPC) is for Digital Transformation Guest blog by Earl Dodd, Global Technical Solutions Architect for HPC and Supercomputing, World Wide Technology I’ve been around long enough to remember when high-performance computing (HPC) was something only scientists, researchers, and certain government agencies cared about. While some of us were enjoying the relative peace and stability of the late 1980s, or (gasp) were not even born yet, some of the world’s most influential organizations were developing ..read more

Seagate today unveiled new enterprise solutions designed to help businesses easily access and store more of their valuable data. At its Datasphere virtual conference, Seagate introduced a revolutionary open-source object-storage software, along with a reference architecture powered by it and a corresponding developer community—all built to manage the massive surge and sprawl of unstructured enterprise data such as videos, analytics, medical imagery, IoT sensors and more. “We live in a data economy,” said Seagate CEO Dave Mosley. “The value of enterprise data is too often untapped. Busines ..read more

Perhaps the most celebrated image from space in decades, covered widely by the press for months, was published last year. It was billed as the first ever image of a black hole. Captured 55 million light-years from Earth, in the center of Messier 87 (M87) galaxy, the black hole image offered not only a true glimpse of the cosmic unknown, but helped validate numerous scientific theories — such as further confirming Einstein’s general theory of relativity. It was a photo with worldwide implications, discussed by scientists and government agencies over the following year — but it wasn’t a photo at ..read more

Imagine an autonomous car self-navigating through an intersection by communicating with other vehicles, as well as with traffic signals and sensors that alert it about oncoming pedestrians. It might sound futuristic, but that’s exactly what visitors to Barcelona’s L’Hospitalet de Llobregat district saw during a 5G connected cars pilot project. Ateca and Arona cars, made by Seat, used Telefonica’s 5G network and Ficosa’s C-V2X (Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything) technology to communicate with other cars, cyclists, and even traffic signals. The traffic lights used thermal cameras to detect pedestri ..read more

Powered by IT 4.0, the fourth wave of industrial revolution within IT — where connected homes, connected cities, AI-powered factories, autonomous vehicles, and media and entertainment content drive explosive data growth — the global datasphere is forecasted to grow from 41 zettabytes in 2019 to 175 zettabytes by 2025, according to a recent IDC study sponsored by Seagate. Nearly 30% of that data will need real-time processing. At CES this week Seagate unveiled its new Lyve Drive Mobile System — a revolutionary modular storage solution to manage the surge of enterprise, cloud, and edge data. Sea ..read more

The Sage2 Project has launched. Sage2 is the new follow-on project to the three-year SAGE project, which was funded by the European Commission and coordinated by Seagate and ended very successfully in 2018. Ten partners across Europe came together to build a novel storage platform that could deal very effectively with immense volumes of data generated by scientific simulations as well as by large scale scientific experiments. SAGE demonstrated a storage platform based on Seagate’s proprietary Seagate Mero Object Storage software technology, where the object store worked with multiple tiers of ..read more

Data in Motion: at Seagate’s Technology Advisory Board meeting, industry leaders grappled with how to tap humanity’s greatest resource—data—from edge to core. The $4.1 trillion question that enterprises are asking these days is: How can we convert data’s new edge-enabled value into new markets? That quest was front and center at the second annual Technology Advisory Board meetings, built around the theme of “Data in Motion” and hosted by Seagate this month. At Seagate, we like to say that the edge is near—a lot. What we mean by that is that, both spatially and temporally, data’s gravity is sh ..read more

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has reported climate change and its effects are advancing even more quickly and with far greater impacts than models predicted only a few years ago. As public awareness grows and many millions of citizens participate in climate strikes this year, the need for action to try to limit the extent of climate catastrophe we’ll face is ever more evident. The IPCC’s reports indicate government action on a scale not seen since the United States mobilized for World War II will be necessary in order to redesign and rebuild the world’s energy infrast ..read more