To address the dramatic growth in data creation and consumption, Seagate
Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a worldwide leader in storage solutions,
today announced several significant product updates that support its
mission to lead the world in the storing, sharing and protecting the
world’s data. The company also announced today its new Cloud Systems and
Solutions group (CSS),
which will deliver the world’s most scalable, secure, efficient, and
cost-effective Cloud service architectures and solutions. Seagate is now
the first company to deliver hard drives, solid-state hybrid drives,
SSDs, external storage solutions, recovery services, cloud services and
fully integrated cloud systems and solutions.
Data growth today and predicted for the future is astounding. Research
firm IDC estimates that the overall amount of data created, replicated,
and consumed across the United States alone will hit 44 zettabytes by
20201, whereas today that number is only 4.4 zettabytes. With
the massive build out of Cloud services, mobile applications, open
source computing, and social networks, the world is creating and relying
on data like never before and Seagate is designing the products and
services to help the world manage its data pool.
Today’s announcements include:
Seagate Cloud Systems and Solutions
Seagate’s CSS product update will include offerings in four focus areas:
Integrated High Performance Computing solutions, Scalable, modular
components and solutions, Custom systems for OEMs and Cloud
Backup/Restore, Disaster Recovery and Rapid Archive Storage solutions.
Seagate will drive the industry’s ability to manage hyperscale computing
demands, improve energy efficiency, and enhance everywhere availability
of data.
The Seagate® ClusterStor™ 9000 solution, available today, is
a fully 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 superior converged scale-out
storage quality and performance efficiency, the ClusterStor 9000
solution delivers 50% higher performance than previous ClusterStor
platforms. Read more here.
The new Seagate® EVault® Enterprise Backup and
Recovery Appliance now accommodates up to 100TB of usable capacity.
Seagate’s large 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
perfect for heterogeneous environments demanding up to a full petabyte
of data storage and extreme computing power. Read more here.
PCIe Flash Accelerator Cards
The new Nytro® XP6302 card delivers high PCIe flash capacity
with competitive performance characteristics in a half-height form
factor. The Nytro XP6302 is designed for optimal density and for
graceful performance scaling for high thread count and queue depth
workloads. The second expansion to the Nytro portfolio the XP6209 card
adds a new 1.86TB capacity point doubling the capacity. The new 1.86TB
SKU addresses customers’ needs for increased capacity density in
low-profile and thermally optimized hyper-converged designs. Read more here.
Enterprise Hard Disk Drives
Building on the broad Seagate portfolio of existing enterprise drives
Seagate unveiled its eighth-generation enterprise hard drive portfolio
spanning from high performance-optimized storage with 15K and 10K-rpm
drives to the capacity-optimized nearline drive – all in an efficient
2.5-inch form factor. New drives introduced today include the Seagate
Enterprise Capacity HDD— the world’s first 2TB 2.5 enterprise-class
nearline drive, Seagate Enterprise Performance 15K HDD with increased
drive performance and double the capacity of the last generation, and
the Seagate Enterprise Performance 10K HDD Capacity where both capacity
and performance meet for maximum mission critical storage efficiency.
Read more here.
All mission critical drives now feature Seagate’s TurboBoost™ enhanced
caching technology establishing the benchmark as the world’s fastest
hard drives. All enterprise drive families are now integrated with the
latest in SAS technology, offering scalable 12Gb/s throughput to and
from the host.
The new drives offer enhanced storage capabilities like Seagate Secure
self-encrypting drive technology, Instant Secure Erase functionality for
easy drive retirement, PowerChoice on-demand power savings, RAID Rebuild
for faster rebuilds – all to improve IT capabilities that allow IT
managers to deploy and maintain efficient storage systems in the most
demanding environments and workloads throughout their lifecycle.
Ideal for IT managers and cloud builders alike, this new line of
enterprise drives are engineered to meet the boundless need for high
performance, high-capacity, reliable drives that in turn enable them to
address today’s never- ending explosive growth of data. Coupled with
Seagate’s new TurboBoost enhanced caching technology, system builders
are now empowered to deliver a far more responsive, productive and
versatile storage system for their customers.
Read more here.
About Seagate
Seagate is a world leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions.
Learn more at www.seagate.com.
©2014 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in the United
States of America. Seagate, Seagate Technology, ClusterStor, Nytro,
TurboBoost and the Wave logo, are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Seagate Technology LLC in t he United States and/or other countries.
When referring to drive capacity, one terabyte, or TB, equals one
thousand billion bytes. Your computer’s operating system may use a
different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In
addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other
functions and will not be available for data storage. Quantitative usage
examples for various applications are for illustrative purposes. Actual
quantities will vary based on various factors, including file size, file
format, features, and application software.
1. Source: IDC Worldwide Hard Disk Drive 2012–2016 Forecast Update, (IDC
#237304, October 2012)
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