Expansion of RealStor Product Line Heightens OEM Selling Power with
Increased Customer Options for Competitive, High-Performance Hybrid and
All-Flash Storage
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in storage
solutions, today announced major enhancements to its AssuredSAN
RealStor™ (RealStor) family of hybrid and all-flash storage arrays,
enabling OEMs to provide customers with greater options for
cost-competitive, high-performance midrange enterprise-class storage.
Seagate now has additional powerful features in the RealStor 6004 hybrid
storage array, already the product family’s highest performing solution.
“The enhanced Seagate hybrid array portfolio offers more choice for OEMs
and their customers,” said Mark Peters, practice director and senior
analyst of Enterprise Strategy Group. “Not only are OEM sales efforts
now bolstered by a more comprehensive selection of field-proven storage
solutions, but also these new RealStor enhancements address critical
enterprise needs while maintaining the products’ hallmark competitive
pricing. The result is that OEMs – regardless of customer needs or
budget – will be able to offer very compelling solutions through their
relationship with Seagate.”
Seagate’s RealStor product line (series 3000, 4000 and 6000) offers
value, capacity and scalability. With a simple user interface, real-time
tiering and virtual snapshots, the easy-to-manage arrays maximize
capacity and performance while keeping costs at a minimum. Built on
proven RAID technology with proven 99.999 percent availability, they
deliver exceptional performance tuned for sequential workloads, ideal
for high-performance computing, telecommunications data capture, oil and
gas seismic data analysis, media streaming, video post-production and
broadcasting. All of the arrays feature RealStor – the next-gen,
real-time storage operating system – which uses intelligent autonomic
tiering to configure fast solid state drives (SSDs) and low-cost
high-density drives (HDDs) to set a price/performance benchmark for the
midrange enterprise segment.
Enhancements to the RealStor family include the following:
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Greater Data Center Performance: New set of value-endurance
SSDs delivers all flash-like performance with HDD-like capacity,
marked by a 40 percent reduction in cost per IOPS and cost per VM.
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Increased Data Center Versatility: Features simplified
storage-array management. A new OpenStack Cinder Driver further
reduces complexity and cost, while enabling organizations to take
advantage of cloud storage.
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Powerful, Easy Disaster Recovery: Includes new RealSpan™
asynchronous replication, as well as automated snapshots. Setup of
RealSpan takes less than 15 minutes and delivers reliable replication
to another array, whether 1 meter or 10,000 kilometers away.
Additional storage snapshots can be scheduled and performed with zero
performance degradation.
In addition to enhancements across the product family, Seagate has
updated the RealStor 6004 hybrid storage array, making it especially
effective for general-purpose, enterprise data center applications.
Furthermore, with RealSpan compatible across the product line, the
powerful RealStor 6004 can be used to drive data centers, while
replicating to lower cost arrays located off-site.
New updates and features to the RealStor 6004 include:
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RealStor Operating System: This next-generation, real-time
storage operating system enables autonomic tiering and other
intelligent storage features for the enterprise-class 6004 arrays.
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Increased Performance: Delivers double the transaction
performance of the RealStor 4004.
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New Interfaces: Offers fibre channel and iSCSI host support to
enable broad data center connectivity for OEM customers.
“From enterprise data centers to the cloud, new software-defined and
hyper-converged platforms are driving up storage demands, particularly
as organizations look to harness advances in mobile, social, big data
analytics and the Internet of Things,” said Bill Wuertz, vice president
of engineering, Seagate. “Seagate RealStor hybrid and all-flash storage
arrays are a tremendous complement to our portfolio and these
enhancements only add to the great value they are known to deliver. For
OEMs, the diverse options we offer ensure their customers find a
solution that strongly meets their needs, budget and can accommodate
future growth.”
These hardware and software products are available now to Seagate OEM
customers.
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