Cloudian and Seagate for Joint Solution

Cloudian, Inc. announced a joint solution with Seagate Technology LLC to provide storage density, scalability and economics for private cloud infrastructures with capacity needs of multi-petabytes to an exabyte.

The solution, Cloudian HyperStore Xtreme, powered by Seagate, combines Cloudian’s S3-compatible object storage software with Seagate’s high-density storage systems to offer customers up to 70% lower TCO than Storage-as-a-Service options.

Private Clouds Offer Best Storage Solution for “Super-Capacity” Workload
Private clouds are a fast growing segment of IT hardware infrastructure, with spending forecasted to increase 58% between 2018 and 2023, compared to 48% growth in public cloud spending and a four-percent decline in traditional IT spending, according to IDC¹.

A key driver of private cloud adoption is enterprises with large-scale storage needs, such as those in healthcare, scientific research, surveillance, AI/ML, and media and entertainment. With capacity-intensive workloads that can reach tens of petabytes, these users face challenges in managing and protecting their large data sets.

While storage-as-a-service offerings provide scalability and flexibility, both the cost and the time to access data can be significant concerns in “super-capacity” use cases.

Similarly, traditional storage solutions also fall short because of cost, reliability and/or timely data access issues.

In contrast, private cloud infrastructures provide the scale and flexibility benefits of storage-as-a-service, along with the performance, access, security and control advantages of on-premises storage.

Cloudian HyperStore Xtreme for Large-Scale Private Clouds
The solution combines Cloudian software and a Seagate high-density storage platform to deliver limitless scalability, real-time data access and ground-breaking economics for large-scale private cloud buildouts.

Features and benefits include: 

• Over 1.5PB in a 4U height enclosure, providing up to 18PB of storage in a single data center rack and 83% greater density than competing systems, thereby saving scarce data center space.
• Cost under ½ cent per GB/month, a savings of up to 70% vs. storage-as-a-service.
• Increased cost-efficiency as the solution scales, in contrast to traditional storage systems that become costlier per unit of storage as capacity grows.
• The ability to scale to an exabyte of capacity without interruption and span multiple locations while presenting all storage as a single pool.
• The compatible S3 object storage, interoperable with the expanding ecosystem of S3-based applications and cloud solutions.

In addition, both companies each have strengths that together provide customers with faster access to innovation and continuous cost savings over the life of the system:

• Seagate’s parallel design process, whereby all components are designed by Seagate, accelerates component/system integration, enabling Cloudian and its customers to capitalize on system technology innovations at least six months sooner than competitors’ serial processes.
• Cloudian’s software-defined technology allows all customers to benefit from Seagate’s advanced cost-performance technologies, which were previously available only to a handful of hyperscale storage users.

The Cloudian HyperStore Xtreme solution will be available from Cloudian and its resellers starting next month.

“Our partnership with Cloudian reflects our priority to deliver customers multiple economical options for managing data at scale,” said Ken Claffey, VP and GM, enterprise data solutions, Seagate. “As the S3 API is now the de facto standard for cloud storage, we see a tremendous opportunity in working together to help large enterprises realize the potential of private cloud, with the scalability and cost benefits they seek.“

“Given the massive data demands of the modern large-scale enterprise, the time has come to rethink storage infrastructure design and target an entirely new level of scalability,” said Scott Sinclair, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Building private clouds today with traditional systems is sub-optimal, ultimately driving up costs as data grows and limiting the ability to leverage data for maximum value. The combination of Cloudian’s object storage software and Seagate’s system design expertise is a true game-changer, delivering innovation and economic savings that will enable customers to capitalize on new data-centric opportunities.“

“Seagate’s decades-long leadership in density, performance and end-to-end integration is the foundation upon which the digital transformation era has thrived,” said Jon Toor, CMO, Cloudian. “As data intelligence transforms every industry over the next decade, enterprise customers expect infinitely scalable storage systems that are flexible and deliver lower TCO faster. The Cloudian-Seagate alliance combines two industry-leading technologies to deliver solutions with the best multi-cloud integration, scaling economics and enriched metadata enablement so that customers can unlock the full value of their digital assets for long-term success.“

¹ IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Q4 2018 Tracker, March 2019.