Businesses and consumers depend on the Internet more than ever to generate, consume and distribute content — boosting demand for hosted services. To manage increased data volumes and more complex applications amidst rising energy costs, Internet infrastructure companies must operate with maximum efficiency, while meeting customer expectations for capacity, performance and uninterrupted service availability.

This requires simplifying their own infrastructure to reduce power, boost performance and streamline operations. As strategic partners to Internet infrastructure customers, systems integrators can make storage a key enabler of success, thereby promoting lasting customer loyalty and strong growth for their own businesses.

Seagate helps systems integrators meet the need of infrastructure solution providers for optimised business-critical storage with the Seagate® Barracuda® ES.2 SAS hard drive, with capacities up to 1 TB and a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface, and the Seagate Cheetah® NS drive, the highest capacity 10K mission-critical drive with best-in-class performance and the lowest power requirements.

The New Seagate Barracuda ES.2 Hard Drive

• NEW! Combines SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) enterprise capabilities with capacities up to 1 TB
• GREENER! Lower power consumption than SATA with interposer card
• FASTER! Increased system performance with 6-Gb/s SAS

This powerful combination of business-critical storage and a native SAS interface on the hard drive — previously only available in mission-critical 10K and 15K drives — integrates seamlessly with existing infrastructures by eliminating the SAS-to-SATA interposer card.

Of particular note is the performance benefit from the SAS interface on a 1-TB drive. By offering the Barracuda ES SAS drive, you can offer 40-60 per cent improved sequential performance over competitors’ 7,200-RPM SATA drives, while delivering the 1-TB capacity. Key applications that would benefit from this improved performance are those processing video and hosted environments using VMware or Parallels Virtuozzo.

The Seagate Cheetah NS Hard Drive

• HIGHEST CAPACITY! For mission-critical storage — 400 GB
• ENERGY SAVING! A 67 per cent improvement in GB/Watt over standard 10K drives
• FASTER! Best-in-class 10K-RPM performance

The Seagate® Cheetah® NS drive provides the highest capacity in mission-critical network storage and delivers better IOPS performance, energy efficiency and reliability than standard 3.5-inch 10K-RPM drives. It comes with either a Fibre Channel or Serial Attached SCSI interface.