HGST SAS SSD Solutions for Verizon Cloud

HGST, Inc. (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company) and Verizon Enterprise Solutions announced that HGST is providing solid-state storage solutions for Verizon Cloud.

HGST’s s800 Series SAS enterprise SSDs are being deployed in Verizon’s cloud servers, providing large enterprises, SMBs with performing, reliable solid-state storage on a scalable platform.

“In building Verizon Cloud, we set out to vastly improve public cloud performance and deliver control and flexibility to the user,” said John Considine, CTO, Verizon Terremark. “HGST’s reputation for high-performance and reliable SSDs fit our vision and assures Verizon cloud has a solid foundation.”

“Verizon’s selection of the s800 Series for Verizon cloud validates HGST’s critical role in cloud computing and enterprise storage,” said Steve Campbell, CTO, HGST. “Our solid-state storage solutions are enabling new cloud architectures, whereby traditional data centers are giving way to software-defined and flash-driven storage and hardware consolidation, delivering maximized per-user performance more efficiently.”

Verizon cloud puts control in the hands of the user, allowing them to dial up or down VM and network settings. This provides predictable performance for mission-critical applications. Verizon cloud leverages the HGST SSDs’ high speeds, range of capacities, and reliability to meet the users’ needs for performance, flexibility and data security. The 2.5-inch s800 Series SSDs, with capacities of up to 2TB, deliver high transactional performance for cloud computing, server and storage applications. The drives also control TCO through low power consumption, efficient cooling and flash-endurance features.

Demonstrations of Verizon Cloud were available at the Cloud Connect conference, held at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL on October 21-23.