Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX), a world leader in storage
solutions, today delivered two new development tools related to its
Kinetic Open Storage™ platform— the Seagate® Kinetic Ethernet
Drive interface and the Seagate Kinetic™ T-Card development adapter.
Both innovations, which have been accepted by the Open Compute
Foundation as important open standards available to Open Compute Project
(OCP) solution providers and system builders, will debut at OCP Summit V.
“Seagate is committed to driving open source innovation and empowering
an active ecosystem of system builders and software developers with the
tools they need to deploy cutting-edge storage solutions and drive this
truly revolutionary platform,” said Mark Re, Seagate’s chief technology
officer. “A true game changer, the Kinetic Open Storage platform will
provide this community with the ability to deliver innovative,
first-of-their-kind, scale-out storage architectures at the industry’s
lowest total cost of ownership.”
Building on its continued support of open source innovation, Seagate is
making its Ethernet Drive interface specification and T-Card development
adapter available to the Open Compute Project. Both Seagate Kinetic
drive connector specifications will enable the OCP community to design,
test, and deliver applications and system designs built upon the Kinetic
Open Storage platform providing an easy, cost-effective path to
object-based solution development at a reduced time to market.
Strong Industry Support
“Seagate’s Kinetic technology has enabled us to further innovate on top
of the Open Compute Project system design and allows us to increase
storage density and reduce performance bottlenecks,” said Steve
Ichinaga, senior vice president and general manager for Hyve Solutions.
“This new open storage platform is another great example of the
innovations arising from the Open Compute Project community allowing us
to better address the needs of our scale-out storage cloud customers.”
“Seagate has been a true world-class partner providing us with
best-in-class support as we develop cutting-edge systems based on this
truly ground-breaking platform— making this a win win for both us and
our customers,” said Dr. Sunlai Chang, CTO for Wiwynn.
New Seagate Kinetic Development Tools Debut
The Seagate Kinetic Ethernet Drive interface enables solution providers
to transition existing SAS or SATA based chassis designs to systems by
replacing conventional HDD SATA or SAS backplanes with Ethernet
backplanes. While the platform’s T-Card development adapter enables
software developers to write and pre-test applications by communicating
over the connectors to Kinetic Open Storage hard drives. Both
specifications are designed to conform to the dimensions,
specifications, power signal assignments, and physical placement of
industry standard SAS drives.
Announced in 2013, the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform is a
device-based open source platform that leverages a traditional hard disk
drive assembly, the key/value API, and Ethernet connectivity to enable
greater performance, scale, simplicity and a lower TCO for scale-out
storage architectures.
Starting today, solution provider partners Hyve and Wiwynn will
demonstrate prototype OCP systems based on the Kinetic Open Storage
platform at Open
Compute Summit V in San Jose, California at booths B7 and B5.
Seagate will also present, “Kinetic Open Storage: Enabling Breakthrough
Economics in Scale-out Object Storage,” on the main stage at 3:10 p.m.
(PT) on Tuesday, January 28.
To download the new Seagate Ethernet Drive interface specification and
Seagate T-Card development adapter and start creating an improved,
simplified storage architecture please visit: http://developers.seagate.com.
To learn more about the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform click
here: http://seagate.com/www/kinetic.
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