Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX), a world leader in storage
solutions, announced today it has entered into a three-year partnership
with CERN openlab to collaborate on the development of the Seagate
Kinetic Open Storage platform. The partnership aims to help CERN, the
European Organization for Nuclear Research, to better manage and store
the 100 petabytes of data the Large Hadron Collider has generated to
date, as well as the additional 2-3 petabytes of information it produces
on a monthly basis in its quest to further humanity’s understanding of
the universe.
CERN's calorimeter - used to measure the energies of particles - in the ATLAS detector ©CERN
“CERN creates a truly astonishing amount of data on a daily basis, and
finding secure and efficient ways to store that information is one of
the most important challenges we face,” said Alberto Di Meglio, Head of
CERN openlab. “We are excited to collaborate with Seagate on
understanding how the Kinetic storage architecture could potentially
contribute to the CERN infrastructure and aid the very demanding LHC
program, by reducing complexity and operational costs in our storage
systems.”
The Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform restructures the traditional
storage server architectures from the bottom up, connecting
object-oriented applications directly to the storage device. By cutting
out the many layers of hardware and software used in traditional stacks,
Seagate Kinetic improves performance while significantly cutting costs –
by 15-40%.
“This is a thrilling opportunity for Seagate to collaborate with CERN to
more efficiently operate one of the most extreme and demanding storage
environments in the world,” said Scott Horn, vice president of marketing
at Seagate. “We believe our partnership will not only deliver extensive
benefits to CERN’s large-scale storage system, but also help us further
enhance the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform by testing it in an
unparalleled data creation environment.”
CERN openlab, which is now entering its fifth three-year phase, is a
unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading ICT
companies. Its mission is to accelerate the development of innovative
new solutions to be used by the worldwide LHC community. CERN openlab
provides companies with a framework to test and validate cutting-edge
information technologies and services in partnership with CERN.
A second, future research project between Seagate and CERN will look at
CERN’s EOS storage system to determine whether there are
opportunities to enhance and improve the system.
About CERN
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's
leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in
Geneva. At CERN, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental
structure of the universe. They use the world's largest and most complex
scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter – the
fundamental particles.
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