FMS: Celestica Unveils Storage Solutions and How Disaggregation of Hardware Is Democratizing Innovation

Celestica, Inc. will unveil new hardware solutions at the Flash Memory Summit on August 2-4 in Santa Clara, CA.

The 1999 launch of VMware’s first product, Workstation1, was one of the catalysts of the disaggregated infrastructure practice that provides the agility, speed and efficient resource utilization required to support advanced workloads in modern datacenters. Today, SMBs companies have the opportunity to quickly and cost-effectively move their innovative designs to mass production and compete with the largest enterprises on a global scale.

VMware enabled users to run multiple instances of operating systems in VMs on one server. That opened business leaders’ eyes to the fact that they had an alternative to incurring the high costs and complexities of overprovisioning and adding more physical servers to the traditional data center.

Enterprises began exploring how to leverage virtualization across more of their applications, servers, storage, and networks to reduce costs, relieve their IT teams of the burden of maintaining peak use datacenter hardware, and, more recently, support the rise of DevOps.

Choice breeds competition, and the hardware solutions market is no exception. For example, end user enterprises don’t have to settle for inadequate software services that hardware providers often layer on top of its proprietary networking equipment. They can purchase hardware from one vendor and deploy the software of their choice that provides the same service levels, at a fraction of the cost.

The enterprise acceptance and maturity of the open source software (OSS) community has expanded these options exponentially. According to Red Hat’s 2022 The State of Enterprise Open Source report, IT leaders prioritize enterprise open source over traditional solutions to meet challenges and build their infrastructure strategies. 82% are more likely to select a vendor who contributes to the open source community.

Today, whether a company plans to rebrand a white label hardware product to sell to its end user customers or is the end user deploying unbranded hardware via its service provider, it doesn’t have to accept a one-size-fits-all solution. Working with a hardware manufacturing and services provider, it can design and build a customized solution that meets its individual needs at a fraction of the cost of purchasing off-the-shelf hardware from an OEM.

Just as important as the flexibility and cost-savings the hardware disaggregation trend provides, companies can focus on their business priority: innovation. Their employees focus on creating next-gen technology products, not worrying about how to scale manufacturing or manage IT infrastructures.

Marc Andressen’s 2011 prediction that software will eat the world has become a reality. Even businesses that have long been considered hardware manufacturers are becoming software developers, integrating AI, ML, and other cutting-edge software technology into their products. But make no mistake – software companies still need innovative hardware solutions to launch their products. Fortunately, the disaggregation of hardware ensures that innovation is not the sole domain of enterprises with enormous IT budgets and teams of highly-trained IT professionals.

As a provider in datacenter infrastructure technologies, Celestica partners with customers to deliver storage, compute, and networking solutions. Its 25+ years of experience, engineering expertise, and investments in portfolio of hardware platform solutions enable the company to help our customers navigate rapidly evolving market landscapes and deliver early-to-market products with the latest technologies.

About Celestica
It enables the world’s best brands. Through its recognized customer-centric approach, it partners with companies in aerospace and defense, communications, enterprise, healthtech, industrial, and capital equipment to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a provider in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, it brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from the drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services. With teams across North America, Europe and Asia, it imagines, develops and delivers a better future with its customers.