Seagate Embraces Open Source: Joins the OpenStack Foundation and Open Compute Project
20 Febbraio 2013 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a worldwide leader in
storage solutions, today announced it has become a corporate
sponsor member of the OpenStack Foundation and Open Compute Project
as part of a collaborative effort to partner with industry leaders
to define and promote open source standards for cloud computing. In
a show of support, the company will help cloud builders to develop
more scalable, customizable solutions using open platforms while
reducing operating costs and providing benefits for consumers in
the marketplace.
“Today’s explosion of data has forced cloud and big data
customers to constantly look for ways to improve their storage
infrastructure while lowering their total cost of ownership,” said
Scott Horn, Seagate’s vice president of marketing. “As an industry
pioneer, Seagate is excited to take the first of a number of
industry changing steps in joining the open source community and
leveraging our vast knowledge of storage and cloud optimized
solutions to help foster the growth of cloud storage
solutions.”
By becoming official members of the OpenStack Foundation and
Open Compute Project, Seagate will be joining a community of more
than a 150 companies who are committed to building cloud
architecture based on open source software and open standards
including Rackspace, Red Hat, AT&T, Cisco, HP, and Dell. As a
member of both organizations, Seagate will lend its expertise
helping to optimize open hardware and software systems to take
advantage of Seagate’s storage technology.
“We are excited to welcome Seagate to the OpenStack community,”
said Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack Foundation. “Their
commitment to open cloud architecture and extensive storage
expertise will benefit the whole community. We look forward to
advancing the OpenStack mission with the support of Seagate.”
“As customers venture into the cloud, key factors influencing
buying decisions are choice of architecture and data portability
because clients do not want to be locked into vendors or
proprietary architectures,” said Dan Iacono, IDC’s research
director for storage in cloud solutions. “Seagate’s commitment to
open communities, such as OpenStack and Open Compute, where people
with similar philosophies about cloud architecture and open source
software and hardware openly collaborate together to develop the
best solution possible is only going to benefit all stakeholders,
consumers and the industry in general.”
For more information on Seagate open source initiatives please
visit http://www.seagate.com. Information on the OpenStack
Foundation can be found at http://www.openstack.org and for Open
Compute Project at http://www.opencompute.org.
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