The company unveiled groundbreaking open-source
software, developer community, and converged infrastructure
innovations
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in data
storage and management solutions, introduced revolutionary
open-source object storage software, a reference architecture
powered by it, and a corresponding developer community. All three
were built to manage the massive surge and sprawl of unstructured
enterprise data. Today’s announcement was part of the company’s
first annual Datasphere event.
“We live in a data economy,” said Seagate’s CEO Dave Mosley.
“The value of enterprise data is too often untapped. Businesses
struggle to access their data’s full potential. Seagate tailored
its offerings to match the new information-hungry reality. The
cost-effective, frictionless, and reliable data management
innovations that Seagate unveiled today will help companies get
more value out of their data.”
Solutions announced today include the 100% open source-based
software CORTX™: the collaborative open source CORTX™ Community;
and the open, flexible reference architecture deployed as converged
infrastructure Lyve Drive™ Rack, powered by CORTX.
The CORTX Software
CORTX is hardware-agnostic open-source object storage
software that gives developers and partners access to mass
capacity-optimized data storage architectures. CORTX use cases
include artificial intelligence, machine learning, hybrid cloud,
the edge, high-performance computing, and more. Given customers’
preference for freedom from vendor lock-in, CORTX is open
source-based and developed with the community. Several early
adopters began testing the software and participating in the CORTX
Community ahead of the launch.
Scientific communities with mass-scale data storage requirements
cheered CORTX’s arrival.
An early adopter, The French Alternative Energies and Atomic
Agency (CEA), has been testing a development version of CORTX for
several years. The agency concluded that it is “now proving to be
very powerful and flexible object storage, which can be used very
effectively to implement very large-scale data storage,” in the
words of Jacques-Charles Lafoucriere, Program Manager, CEA. “CORTX
can very nicely work with storage tools and many different types of
storage interfaces. We have effectively used CORTX to implement a
parallel file system interface (pNFS) and hierarchical storage
management tools. CORTX architecture is also compatible with
artificial intelligence and deep learning (AI/DL) tools such as
TensorFlow.”
Another early adopter, the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), a
leader in fusion energy research and development, sees CORTX as a
welcome and needed solution. “CORTX is novel in its very concept,”
said Dr. Debasmita Samadder, Exascale Algorithms Specialist at
UKAEA. “It is very exciting to try our application and explore its
performance using this unique object data storage system.”
“As HPC Division Leader at Los Alamos National Lab, I am
vigilant for opportunities to reduce the cost and complexity of our
distributed data platforms,” said Gary Grider. “I am very excited
to see what Seagate is doing with CORTX and am optimistic about its
ability to lower costs for data storage at the exabyte scale. We
will be closely following the open source CORTX and will
participate in the community built around it, because we share
Seagate's goal of economically efficient storage optimized for
massive scalability and durability.”
Early adopters of CORTX also include Toyota Motor Corporation
and Fujitsu Limited, among other enterprises.
The CORTX Community
CORTX Community is a group of open source researchers and
developers working together to enable mass capacity object storage
for the world’s proliferating data sets.
CORTX is now available for download and collaboration on GitHub.
“Seagate delivers an open platform, with all the feature sets and
roadmaps driven by the community—for the community,” said Jeff
McAffer, Senior Director of Product at GitHub. “It’s the kind of
setting in which innovation happens.”
While CORTX and CORTX Community are Seagate’s latest
contributions to object storage, the company has long played a key
role in its collaborative development. In the late 1990s, Seagate
was a pioneering member of the industry consortium that created the
very first object storage specification: the SNIA OSD standard.
Seagate's commitment to innovation and collaboration in object
storage continues in CORTX and its many architectural
optimizations.
Both offerings drew praise from Intel and WekaIO.
“Open source innovation in high-performance storage is critical
to propel cloud, HPC, AI and communications networks to higher
levels of performance in the coming data era,” said Bryan
Jorgensen, Vice President in Intel’s Data Platforms Group. “Intel
plans to work within the CORTX Community to enable and optimize
this exciting open source technology with our relevant platform
features, including Intel® Optane™ persistent memory, Intel®
QuickAssist accelerators, and the DAOS file system. We will also be
working with Seagate to integrate those same technology innovations
within the mass capacity-optimized Lyve Drive Rack reference
design.”
Shailesh Manjrekar, Head of AI and Strategic Alliances at
WekaIO, weighed in as well: “As the provider of the world's fastest
file system, we are thrilled to partner with Seagate to meet our
customer's demands for high performance and exascale economic
storage for use cases like AI/ML, life sciences, and financial
services. We appreciate Seagate's proven data storage expertise and
look forward to participating in the CORTX open source development
to create end-to-end solutions leveraging our transformative Weka
AI solutions framework, where WekaFS provides the extreme
performance and CORTX provides capacity and durability.”
Lyve Drive Rack
Lyve Drive Rack is an open, flexible converged storage
infrastructure that provides users with a ready-made reference
architecture with which to deploy CORTX and build their own mass
capacity-optimized private storage cloud. The solution democratizes
hyperscale storage architectures. It offers economical and fast
deployment of object storage, enabling discovery of valuable
insights through rich data labeling of massive amounts of data. The
enclosure’s capacities start at 1.34PB.
The Datasphere event featured a demo for Lyve Drive Rack. It was
furnished with Seagate’s next-gen hardware innovation, the 20TB
HAMR hard drives, showing that CORTX and Lyve Drive Rack enable
fast adoption of mass-capacity drives for hyperscale applications.
Shipments of Lyve Drive Rack and the 20TB HAMR drives are scheduled
to begin in December.
Another early adopter of CORTX and Lyve Drive Rack, DC BLOX,
provides resilient edge-connected colocation, networking, and
storage infrastructure. “DC BLOX values Seagate’s leadership in
tackling the rapidly increasing challenge of large-scale data
storage and management with its CORTX object storage system,” said
Peyton McNully, Chief Cloud Architect at DC BLOX.
Public cloud hyperscale storage infrastructures rely on the cost
efficiency of mass-capacity devices to reduce the cost of storage.
With today’s announcements, Seagate is bringing that same
capability and economic benefit to the enterprise in an open
architecture mode—the open-source data management software coupled
with a multi-vendor reference architecture ecosystem.
The Datasphere Event
The virtual Datasphere event also included two panel
discussions centered around tapping more enterprise data and open
source solutions. The panels featured industry leaders from
Seagate, ServiceNow, RISC-V International, Equinix, GitHub,
AT&T, and IDC. Other Seagate and industry experts also led
deeper dives into the new technologies and use cases.
For more information and for the recorded event, visit
https://www.seagate.com/datasphere-2020-us.
About Seagate Technology
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humanity’s potential by innovating world-class,
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