Seagate Rolls Out Cloud Systems And Solutions Group

Seagate Technology plc has strengthened its position in storage solutions by delivering cloud systems and solutions for OEM, do-it-yourself (DIY) and other organizations.

The company is building on its position as a steward of digital information, and its acquisitions of Xyratex and EVault, to deliver an Intelligent Information Infrastructure system to help organizations manage the massive growth in digital data and deliver on next generation workloads.

“Industry research firm IDC estimates that the overall volume of digital bits created, replicated, and consumed across the United States alone will hit 44ZB by 2020. That represents a doubling of data volume every two years,” said Jamie Lerner, president of cloud systems and solutions, Seagate. “Organizations are looking for cost-effective ways to harness data and create actionable information. Seagate is bringing an open approach to the Intelligent Information Infrastructure program. We are applying our experience working with cloud service providers worldwide to create systems and solutions that manage next generation workloads with the scale, performance and economy aligned to business needs.“

Much of the data growth is in unstructured data. Industry analyst firm IDC “estimates that in 2015, as far as enterprise disk storage systems are concerned, unstructured data will surpass structured data in terms of both capacity shipped and customer revenue.”

Industry analyst firm Gartner says: “The explosion in unstructured data, which is growing at 40% to 60% on a yearly basis in most enterprises, has catapulted object storage as an inexpensive, scalable, self-healing, multitenant platform for storing petabytes of data.”

Seagate Cloud Systems and Solutions has a growing number of offerings in four areas:

Integrated HPC solutions
Engineered for HPC, solutions combine dense data enclosures,  OS, hardware controllers, and the Lustre file system in a consolidated, scale-out HPC platform. The solution removes the complexities associated with deploying and maintaining traditional high-performance systems yielding faster time to results, ease of use and management, and performance to meet mission-critical needs.

Scalable, modular components and engineered solutions
Deagate provides Intelligent Information Infrastructure solutions to meet the needs of do-it-yourself (DIY) organizations that want to select components and build custom systems to integrate solutions for object storage; these software independent systems can meet the capacity and performance demands of next generation workloads, including:

• Engineered solutions for object storage  
• Reference architectures for open source and software defined storage
• Private cloud appliances for backup and recovery
• Modular, scalable components for DIY

Custom, modularized systems for OEMs
Seagate has provided over 2 million enclosures and 17,000PB of storage for our OEM customers. Its open Intelligent Information Infrastructure program provides private label systems and components for vendors that want to deliver quality information infrastructure products to their customers. Included among these offerings are:

• Drives (HDD, SSD, Hybrid)
• Data enclosures
• Embedded server modules
• Solution partnership based on customer requirements

Cloud Backup/Restore, DR and Rapid Archive Storage services
Seagate, EVault and its partners provide secure public cloud solutions for organizations that need backup, DR or active archive but do not want to own or maintain the infrastructure. With over 25,000 cloud backup and recovery customers, the Seagate cloud services ecosystem provides a breadth of backup, recovery, and rapidd archive solutions for organizations of all types and sizes. These include:

• Cloud Backup
• Cloud DR
• Rapid Archive
• Services (deployment, migration, integration, performance tuning, upgrades, etc.)

As part of this news, Seagate also announced new Cloud Systems and Solutions products and product updates.

ClusterStor 9000 solution, available, is an integrated Lustre-based scale-out solution designed for HPC and big data customers who need to reliably plan, deploy and sustain maximum optimal application performance. Delivering converged scale-out storage quality and performance efficiency, the ClusterStor 9000 solution delivers 50% higher performance than previous ClusterStor platforms. Additional customer benefits include GridRAID technology, which provides 400% faster rebuild times, reduced management tasks and operating costs; and architecture that eliminates storage I/O bottlenecks and enables linear scalability achieving maximum sustainable performance per disk drive.

ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance (SDA), part of the ClusterStor family of parallel file systems solutions, has received security certification, validating its design to satisfy US government Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 503 policies and related (DCID 6/3 PL4) cross-domain solution requirements. It supports security capabilities to safeguard against internal and external threats throughout the data lifecycle.

The EVault Enterprise Backup & Recovery Appliance now accommodates up to 100TB of usable capacity. Seagate’s portfolio of backup and recovery appliances have been built from the ground up to both connect and replicate to the cloud. The architectural flexibility inherent to the Seagate appliances makes them for heterogeneous environments demanding up to a petabyte of data storage and computing power.