Seagate Demos Cloud Storage in US Quanta Cloud Technology Solution Center

Seagate Technology plc is bringing technology and expertise to Quanta Cloud Technology‘s newest solution center, which celebrated its grand opening in San Jose, CA.

The QCT Cloud Solution Center, in conjunction with technology leaders such as Seagate, is one of many planned in a global initiative to help meet the growing needs of next generation data centers.

The centers will enable QCT customers – such as financial institutions, web cloud providers, and e-commerce retailers – to assess various configurations before they purchase a solution. Several different Seagate products will be showcased and can be tested by customers, including enterprise HDDs, SAS SSDs and Nytro flash accelerator cards. The solution center will demonstrate configurations using these Seagate technologies, including software-defined data center configurations, a VDI block series solution, an OpenStack cloud solution and a ‘cloud-in-a-box’ configuration. Customers will receive hands-on experience and direct counsel from experts, which can be applied and customized to their own architectures.

“Storage needs for customers running on new software-defined and hyper-converged platforms in hyperscale, cloud and enterprise data centers are growing and becoming more complex,” said Brett Pemble, VP and GM, flash products, Seagate. “Building upon our efforts with QCT since 1991, these solution centers enable our common customers to benefit from Seagate and QCT solution-level products and evaluate them before deployment in their own production environments.”

QCT’s first Cloud Solution Center opened in Taipei, Taiwan in April 2015. Several more are planned around the world.

“As one of the world’s largest suppliers to cloud data centers, QCT is experiencing rapid growth as the cloud computing industry accelerates,” said Mike Yang, GM, QCT. “Our new Cloud Solution Centers will give our customers first-hand experience with solutions they look to deploy in their own environments. We are excited that Seagate will be showcased at the San Jose Cloud Solution Center to further promote our engagement that is redefining storage.“