Today’s announcement between Seagate and Samsung to jointly develop controller technology for future enterprise Solid State Drives is certainly a milestone.
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Although Seagate’s core business is hard drive manufacturing, there are numerous business development teams within the company that work with outside OEMs and customers to explore technologies and implementations for the future. One significant area Seagate has continued to look at during the past several years has been the emergence of cloud computing. Wes Perdue is part of Seagate’s Enterprise Product Line Management team directly responsible for its Cloud Storage Strategy