Garnering Strong Industry Support, New Kinetic
Storage Solution Slashes Costs by up to 50 Percent by Simplifying
Configurations for Large Cloud Data Centers
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX), a world leader in storage
solutions, today unveiled its revolutionary, new object-based
storage drive— the Seagate® Kinetic HDD. Based on the Seagate
Kinetic Open Storage platform, Kinetic HDD dramatically reduces
total cost of ownership (TCO) by combining an open source object
storage protocol with Ethernet connectivity to eliminate multiple
layers of legacy software and hardware infrastructure— greatly
simplifying cloud storage architectures.
Seagate Kinetic HDD (Photo: Business
Wire)
Introduced in 2013, the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform
has garnered broad industry support from cloud and enterprise
customers, as well as software and hardware systems partners,
including AOL, Digital Sense, and Hewlett Packard, which have
collaborated to support the open Kinetic API and helped to enable
this new storage technology to come to market.
“Over the past decade, the unprecedented explosion of data has
been driven by social media, smartphones, tablets, and the rapid
growth of every sort of Internet-connected device,” said Scott
Horn, Seagate vice president of marketing. “Cloud service providers
(CSPs) are increasingly looking for solutions that will simplify
infrastructure, improve scalability and reduce costs— Kinetic HDD
addresses these needs revolutionizing the data storage economics
for today’s cloud and beyond.”
The Kinetic Open Storage platform dramatically simplifies
large-scale storage architectures by eliminating the overhead of an
entire storage server tier, which in turn lowers equipment costs.
Fewer number of storage servers also reduces power consumption and
headcount expenses associated with managing storage, resulting in
lower operating costs, for a combined savings of up to 50
percent.
“The Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform is a compelling
technology that has the potential to empower data centers with more
scalable solutions at an industry-low TCO,” said Dave Reinsel,
IDC’s group vice president for storage and semiconductors.
“Seagate’s move into this space is a strategic addition to its core
storage business as it aligns with the open community, as well as
with the needs of CSPs that are looking for new architectures to
manage their vast and growing lakes of data.”
“The Kinetic Open Storage platform will help AOL improve data
center efficiency by reducing the number of servers required
to store data for modern scale out applications,” said Dan
Pollack, chief architect - storage operations for AOL. “The
addition of Kinetic devices to the storage environment creates
architectural flexibility when deploying systems. Kinetic
storage also improves TCO when storing the enormous data sets
required by applications, while simplifying management and
reducing the effort required to operate reliable data storage
systems.”
“HP is working closely with Seagate in our exploration of
Ethernet connected drives. At HP, we focus on continually driving
meaningful innovation in big data solutions and believe Kinetic
technology could have a significant impact on the way data intense
applications operate in the future,” Jimmy Daley, director, modular
compute and storage at HP.
The Kinetic Open Storage platform improves drive and rack level
performance by eliminating the need for legacy file systems and
shifting HDD storage media space management to the drive itself. It
delivers a streamlined architecture allowing storage applications
to talk directly to Kinetic object storage HDDs. Performance is
further enhanced by eliminating storage server bottlenecks via
direct IP addressing of each drive, thereby improving system level
throughput.
The platform enables servers and storage to be scaled
independently and developed more rapidly. Cloud data centers can
add servers and storage at entirely different rates, matching each
precisely to their needs. In addition, HDD innovation can progress
more rapidly as servers and operating systems are shielded from
device changes through the Kinetic open source API.
“The TCO works out amazingly! We are seeing up to a 75 percent
reduction in costs as compared to our current storage systems. As
such, we strongly believe we have a far more competitive and
cost-efficient cloud offering for our customers,” said Michael
Tran, CTO, Digital Sense.
“Our core mandate is to develop turn-key solutions
that accommodate compute, network and storage components for
private infrastructures,” said Takashi Sogabe, lead engineer
service development section, application development product
division of Internet Initiative Japan. “With this in mind, we
are currently evaluating the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage
platform. These drives coupled with object storage deliver
optimum applications in terms of flexibility, scalability and
efficiency— a winning combination that will enable us to deliver
unparalleled apps in the very near future.”
Starting today, Seagate will demonstrate the Kinetic Open
Storage platform at OpenStack Summit Paris 2014, LE PALAIS DES
CONGRÈS, Paris, France, showcasing Kinetic HDD at booth D11. The
company will also partner with solutions provider Rausch showcasing
their product Bigfoot, which is based on the platform as well, at
OpenCompute booth E48. Seagate will present, “Disruptive Economics
with the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Platform: Simplify, Scale,
Disaggregate,” at 2:30 p.m. (CET) on Tuesday, November 4 at the
Sponsor Demo Theater as well as unveil a technology demonstration
of the first object-based Kinetic SSD.
For more information on the Seagate Kinetic HDD and the Seagate
Kinetic Open Storage platform, please visit
www.seagate.com/www/kinetichdd.
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