Accelerates Seagate’s Entrance into PCIe Market and Strengthens SSD Controller Capabilities
MALAYSIA — May 30, 2014 — Seagate Technology plc, a world leader in storage solutions, and Avago Technologies Limited, a leading semiconductor device supplier to the enterprise storage, wired, wireless and industrial end markets, today announced that they have entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement under which Seagate will acquire the assets of LSI’s Accelerated Solutions Division (“ASD”) and Flash Components Division (“FCD”) from Avago for US$450 million in cash.
The acquisition strengthens Seagate’s strategy to deliver a full suite of storage solutions, providing Seagate with established Enterprise PCIe flash and SSD controller capabilities to deliver solutions for the growing flash storage market. LSI’s ASD business, which is the second largest player in the PCIe flash space, offers a highly differentiated enterprise-grade PCIe flash solution focused on the high-growth cloud and hyperscale markets. LSI’s FCD business, led by its SandForce SF2000 and SF3700 controller products, is driving a multi-product roadmap to address volume markets.
“Seagate is committed to providing our customers with a complete range of storage solutions, and this acquisition will significantly enhance our flash storage offerings to supplement our existing portfolio,” said Steve Luczo, Seagate Chairman and CEO. “LSI’s ASD business has the broadest PCIe flash product offering and intellectual property in the market today and the FCD business has best-in-class SSD controllers with proven support for a wide range of applications. This acquisition immediately boosts Seagate’s range and depth of flash storage capabilities today, and these teams bring to Seagate the expertise to accelerate our roadmap in this important and growing market.”
In fiscal 2015, Seagate would expect the combination of its enterprise SSD product line and these SSD Controller families to generate revenues of at least US$150 million and be slightly accretive to the company gross margin with operating margin headwind of US$30 to US$40 million. As Seagate drives operational synergies and leverages its SSD technology into its product portfolio, the company would expect the operating margin contribution from its SSD business to be neutral to positive in fiscal 2016 and beyond.
The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of calendar year 2014, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and the receipt of certain regulatory approvals, including those required by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.
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Friday, May 30, 2014
SEAGATE TO ACQUIRE LSI’S FLASH BUSINESSES FROM AVAGO
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
SEAGATE EMPOWERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS WITH RELEASE OF NEW KINETIC OPEN STORAGE API AT THE OPEN STACK SUMMIT
Partners Inktank, SwiftStack and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Show Strong Support for Kinetic Open Storage-Enabled Systems
MALAYSIA — May 14, 2014 — Seagate plc, a world leader in storage solutions, today announced it is expanding the open source program associated with its Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform to include API (application programming interface) and libraries. By expanding the platform’s open source initiatives, the company is taking the next big step in fully-enabling software and hardware partners to leverage the new key/ value programing interface and integrate it into cloud software stacks, additional devices and new systems.
“Seagate is committed to the Kinetic platform and we see enormous potential in opening it up to developers around the world to provide them with the ability to deliver breakthrough cloud storage architectures,” said Mark Re, Seagate’s Chief Technology Officer. “We believe in driving open source innovation and empowering a vibrant ecosystem of system builders and software developers with the tools they need to deploy cutting-edge storage solutions and drive this truly revolutionary platform.”
Following up on contributions to interface specifications contributed to Open Compute Project earlier this year, Seagate is opening the platform’s API, libraries and simulator technologies and enabling the OpenStack community to design, test, and deliver applications and system designs built upon Seagate Kinetic technology. The result is a simple, cost-effective path to object-based solution development at a reduced time to market.
“Through community-powered innovation, OpenStack is redefining the cloud and open source is redefining software-defined storage,” said Ben Cherian, vice president, Strategic Development, Inktank, acquired by Red Hat April 2014. “Inktank is proud to collaborate with Seagate as part of our open software-defined storage ecosystem, and we’re pleased that Seagate shares our belief that ‘open’ is key to driving continued technology innovation.”
“SwiftStack provides an Object Storage software system that simplifies the deployment, integration and management of OpenStack's object storage project. We see head-on rapid growth and adoption of open source technologies by enterprises,” said Joe Arnold, CEO of SwiftStack. “Seagate's Kinetic Open Storage platform is on the forefront of innovation. In particular their development tools for this platform enable next-gen architectures to deploy true software-defined object storage. By introducing these new tools, Seagate has proven its commitment to support open source.”
“We are excited about Seagate's Kinetic Open Storage platform and the potential it has to drive open storage technology,” said Dirk Petersen, scientific computing manager at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. “It’s great that Seagate shares the same passion for open standards that we do for finding a cure and with this new platform, we will now have the resources we need to tap into today’s cutting-edge technologies and identify cures for some of the world’s deadly cancers.”
The release of the API and associated libraries will expose source code for various software development languages enabling storage software to talk directly to a Kinetic drive. The Kinetic Open Storage API encourages both software and hardware suppliers to get involved and integrate Kinetic commands into their solutions. The libraries being released today include support for the C++, Java, and Python languages. The open source libraries also encourages developers to leverage the protocol directly and write their own libraries if desired.
Announced in 2013, the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform is a device-based open source platform that leverages a traditional hard disk drive assembly while adding the essential elements of both a key/value API and Ethernet connectivity to enable greater performance, scale, simplicity, and a lower TCO for scale-out storage architectures.
To experience the newly expanded open sourced Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform and start creating an improved, simplified storage architecture please visit: http://developers.seagate.com. To learn more about the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform click here: http://seagate.com/www/kinetic.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
SEAGATE SHIPS WORLD’S FASTEST 6TB DRIVE FOR SCALE-OUT, CLOUD-BASED DATA CENTERS
April 08, 2014 — Seagate plc, a world leader in storage solutions, today announced it is now shipping the world’s fastest 6TB hard disk drive (HDD) — the Seagate® Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4. Boasting industry-leading performance, the Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 is an important step forward in scale-out data infrastructures delivering supersize storage and enterprise reliability to meet the explosive growth of corporate and cloud-based data centers.
“Unstructured data growth is doubling exponentially and will propel the digital universe to reach 16 Zettabytes of data by as early as 2017. This will cause cloud service providers to look for innovative ways to store more within an existing footprint while lowering operational costs,” said Scott Horn, Seagate vice president of marketing. “Seagate is poised to address this challenge by offering the fastest 6TB enterprise capacity HDD based on our proven, reliable platform meeting this never-ending demand in both private and public cloud data centers.”
“Supermicro’s new TwinPro and wide range of SuperServer, SuperStorage solutions all feature integrated 12Gb/s SAS 3.0 support enabling full and immediate access to the maximum performance and capacity offered by Seagate’s new 6TB 12Gb/s Enterprise-class HDDs, ” said Wally Liaw, vice president of sales, international at Supermicro. “In addition to the increased I/O
bandwidth, our SAS3 optimized platforms are cost competitive with current SAS2 6Gb/s enabled systems offering customers not only performance but also accelerated ROI advantages. With Seagate’s new 6TB Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4, Supermicro now offers the most cost effective scale-out storage solutions maximized for performance, density and energy efficiency in enterprise, data center, cloud and HPC applications. “
A family of drives with up to 6TB of capacity, the Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 provides customers with the highest capacity density needed to address an ever increasing amount of unstructured data in an industry-standard 3.5-inch HDD. Supporting the highest density storage per square foot in the industry, it features a 50 percent increase in capacity over the last generation (4TB) nearline drive. Ideal for both replicated and RAID environments, the drive delivers a lower TCO for enterprise storage by providing the highest capacity available without sacrificing performance.
The drive employs multi-drive rotational vibration tolerance for consistent enterprise-class performance and accurate data storage in high density environments. With its robust 7200-RPM performance, ramp load technology, and a humidity sensor, it delivers optimum performance even in the harshest environments. Purpose-built for enterprise environments, the drive utilizes the T10 and T13-compliant power management standards enabling organizations to tailor systems for optimal energy usage resulting in up to 90 percent more power savings.
Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 Key Features:
• Industry-Leading Performance— 25 percent faster than competitive 6TB drives.
• Highest Capacity Available—Up to 6TB per drive for maximum density server and storage solutions.
• Enterprise-Class Reliability— Industry-leading rotational vibration tolerance for consistent performance and enhanced error correction for accurate data storage.
• Best-in-Class Security— Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) with Instant Secure Erase for easy drive disposal or repurposing and FIPS SED security options.
The drive is shipping now to select Cloud partners and resellers globally. It will also be integrated into Seagate business and branded storage products starting this spring. To learn more about the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 please visit http://seagate.com/www/6TB_Drive.
Seagate推出全球最快6TB硬碟给扩大的云端资料中心
马来西亚 – 4月8日, 2014 – 全球硬碟与储存方案领导者Seagate plc, 今日宣布全球最快6TB硬碟 – Seagate® Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4正式推出。一向以业界顶尖表现自豪，此次Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4更进一步扩充基础设施数据，并提供超高储存容量和企业可靠性，以满足日益增加的企业和云端资料中心。
Seagate行销副总裁Scott Horn表示：“非结构化资料增长正成倍增加并将使数位世界早在2017年达到16 Zettabytes的数据。这将使各云端服务供应商部署革新的方法以便在现有的空间储存更多，同时降低营运成本。Seagate已准备好应对这项挑战，以我们出色、可靠的平台推出这个最快的6TB企业级硬碟来满足个人和公共云端资料中心永无止境的需求。”
采用非直接硬碟的最快效能，Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4建立在拥有比其它6TB硬碟高出25%效能的第八代平台 ，快速传输数据 – 成为理想的24 X 7批量数据储存空间。利用最新一代的12GB/s SAS，此硬碟提供客户未来考验系统的延展性。它采用 6GB/s SATA界面，以实现快速的资料传输率与连接便利性。
Supermicro国际业务副总裁表示：“Supermicro最新的TwinPro和各种SuperServer, SuperStorage方案都备有综合12GB/s SAS 3.0支援，以便于完整和直接连接Seagate最新6TB 12GB/s企业级硬碟。除了增加的I/O带宽，我们的SAS3最优化平台联合现有的SAS2 6GB/s复合成本效率，不仅提供客户效能，并促进投资回报率（ROI）的优势。现在配合Seagate全新的6TB Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4，Supermicro推出最符合成本效率，且具备可扩充性的储存方案，提供各企业、资料中心、云端和高性能计算机（HPC）应用最高效能、密度和能源效率。”
一组高达6TB容量的硬碟，Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4提供最大容量密度给客户来处理在一个3.5寸标准产业硬碟里不断增加的非结构化资料。它拥有相较上一代（TB）近线硬碟多出50百分比的容量，以支援业界每平方尺最高密度储存。此硬碟提供最大容量但不牺牲效能，给企业储存一个较低的TCO，成为再造及RAID环境里理想的选择。
此款硬碟具备multi-drive rotation vibration tolerance抗震功能，在高密度环境提供一致的企业级效能及精准的资料储存。具备7200-PRM稳健效能、ramp load技术、湿度感应器，就算在最严峻的环境，它也能表现优质效能。专门为企业环境打造，此硬碟利用符合T10和T13的电源管理标准，使各机构能够调整系统以达到最佳能源使用，而节省达90百分比的电源。
Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4的重要特性包括：
· 业界最高效能 – 速度比其它6TB硬碟快25%。
· 最大容量 – 高达6TB给高密度伺服器和储存方案。
· 企业级可靠性 – 业界抗震性最佳，效能稳定，并具有强化错误修正，提供精准的资料储存。
· 最佳安全性 – Instant Secure Erase技术的Self-EncryptingDrives (SED)可轻松的废气或重新配置硬碟，并备有FIPS SED安全设置。
此款硬碟正出货选择远端合作伙伴和分销商。它也将在这个春季被纳入到Seagate企业与品牌储存产品。更多Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4的相关讯息，欢迎浏览http://seagate.com/www/6TB_Drive。
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Seagate Completes Acquisition of Xyratex
April 01, 2014 — Seagate plc, a world leader in storage solutions, today announced it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Xyratex Ltd, a leading provider of data storage technology.
“Exabyte growth is accelerating, and we are building higher capacity drives to address this growth,” said Dave Mosley, President of Operations and Technology at Seagate. “The time required to properly test these higher capacity drives is increasing dramatically, making it strategically important to have uninterrupted access to world-class test equipment and engineering resources. The addition of Xyratex helps us fill this important need and considerably streamlines Seagate’s supply and manufacturing chains for our core HDD business.”
Jamie Lerner, President of Cloud Systems and Solutions at Seagate, said, “We are very excited to add Xyratex’s storage systems and high-performance computing businesses to our core offerings. This will enable Seagate to provide added value to our customers through a broader array of storage solutions, which is particularly important as exabyte growth continues and as cloud-based business models proliferate. We look forward to coupling our expertise with the experience and capabilities of the Xyratex team and working together to accelerate innovation in the months and years to come.”
Seagate expects revenue contribution from this acquisition to be between USD $500 – USD $600 million, and for the acquisition to be neutral to earnings per share in its fiscal year 2015, ending July 3, 2015. All shares of Xyratex are expected to be delisted from the NASDAQ stock market immediately following the closing.
Allen & Company LLC served as financial advisor and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati served as primary legal advisor to Seagate in connection with the transaction.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Seagate Advises Users to Back Up Social Media Photos
Protect Valuable Digital Assets with External Drives
MALAYSIA — March, 13, 2014 — A vast majority of people save their photos straight from the camera or camera phone directly to the web so you can share them with friends and family. We post our photos to social media and other sharing sites so people can tag images and comment on them. This is a fun way to keep in contact over time and long distances.
In a survey by Seagate and Harris Interactive, 72% of people consider their photos and videos as their most valuable digital assets. But only 27% of them have an external backup drive. According to the Washington Post, Facebook is now the world’s largest repository of photos, but most Facebook users don’t keep copies of their photos anywhere else.
For most websites, it only takes a few steps to copy the photos. Even if you take lots of pictures all the time, you can store backups quickly on easy-to-use portable drives like a Seagate Backup Plus or Wireless Plus. Then, no matter what happens on that website, you’ll have your own photos.
To download all of the photos you’ve ever posted on Facebook, you need to set up an account archive:
1. Click on the account menu at the top right of any Facebook page.
2. Choose Account Settings.
3. Click on Download a Copy of Your Facebook Data.
4. Click on Start My Archive.
You will be asked to verify your account. Then the site will create an archive of your whole account and all the photos and videos you’ve uploaded. You can’t select individual items to download, but the final .ZIP file, when expanded, contains multiple folders holding HTML files of your posts and folders of your photos and videos in the original size and quality that you uploaded them.
How to Back Up Your Flickr Photos
Flickr doesn’t have a batch download feature, but the service points towards a variety of third-party backup tools available for Windows and Mac. You can use those to download all your photos, albums, and sets.
How to Back Up Your Instagram Photos
Instagram doesn’t offer an archive service, but there are third-party tools you can use to export and back up your Instagram photos.
How to Back Up Your Picasa Photos
If you have Picasa installed on your computer, you can download entire albums from Picasa Web Albums to back them up. Just click on Actions > Download to Picasa. In the next window, click on Download.
How to Back Up Your SmugMug Photos
In your SmugMug gallery, select Tools > Download All. That will start bundling the gallery into a .ZIP file. When it's ready, SmugMug will send you an email link to download your archive. The file is good for two weeks.
Need more backup space for photos?
If you really love taking photos, plus video, consider bigger backup storage, such as Backup Plus Desktop Drive, for your computer. Or if you want both storage and streaming access to all your content, try the Seagate Central home network system so you can store all your photos, videos and more, then view it from anywhere in your house.
Want to manage your photos better?
You can easily manage your photos on Seagate Wireless Plus or Seagate Central devices with the Seagate® Media App. This free app is available for your smartphone or tablet and automatically organizes your files so you can enjoy them at home or on the go.
The Seagate Media app can access your entire photo library located on your Seagate Wireless Plus or Seagate Central devices. Create a slideshow, view your Facebook pictures*, or download a photo to your mobile device. Your photos and memories are never far away with the Seagate Media app.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Jamie Lerner to Join Seagate as President of Cloud Systems and Solutions
MALAYSIA — March 06, 2014 — Seagate plc today announced that Jamie Lerner will join the company as President, Cloud Systems and Solutions. Lerner most recently held the position of Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group at Cisco Systems.
Lerner has spent nearly two decades in executive management positions in high-tech, primarily focused on enterprise level management software and services. He has a deep technology and business background, founding and successfully growing two technology companies, XUMA, Inc. and CITTIO, Inc. Over the last five years at Cisco, Lerner built the company’s Service Provider and Network Management businesses, ultimately leading to the creation of the company’s expanded cloud and systems management division.
Lerner will join Seagate on March 10 and will report directly to Seagate Chairman and CEO Steve Luczo.“The transitions happening in cloud computing represent significant changes for the storage industry and we are expanding Seagate’s opportunities by advancing our technology portfolio for greater capacity and efficiency in hyperscale deployments,” said Steve Luczo, Seagate Chairman and CEO. “With Jamie’s substantial expertise in this space, combined with his proven business acumen, we believe he can leverage our unique position as a storage leader and scale our business for new growth initiatives in cloud computing. We are confident Jamie is the right leader to drive this important next chapter for Seagate.”
“Seagate has been delivering innovative technology for decades and over that time has built a highly respected brand in the storage industry,” added Lerner. “I look forward to leading Seagate’s cloud strategy in this exciting time for the company.”
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Seagate Targets Video Analytics Applications with Seventh-Generation Surveillance Hard Disk Drive
New Surveillance HDD in Malaysia Delivers the Highest Capacity Storage Optimized for Reliable 24x7 Video Surveillance Systems
MALAYSIA — February 26, 2014 — Seagate Technology plc, a world leader in storage solutions, today took the wraps off its seventh-generation hard drive disk (HDD) engineered specifically for surveillance and video analytics applications— the Seagate Surveillance HDD. The Surveillance HDD is a world-class HDD purpose-built for storing and accessing video analytics, improving data integrity and keeping systems in the field longer.
“There is a growing need to analyze and make use of large amounts of video data, including applications where cities can predict and improve traffic flows, airports can reduce wait times, and emergency responders can react faster— the possibilities are endless,” said Scott Horn, Seagate vice president of marketing. “We pioneered this market more than a decade ago, delivering the world’s first surveillance HDD, and can leverage our vast knowledge of this technology and market to provide our customers with the optimal solution for recording and accessing surveillance data.”
“We look forward to adopting Seagate’s new surveillance optimized drives with improved performance and reliability,” said Jeff Range, vice president of global operations at March Networks. “The Surveillance HDD, with its high capacity drive and robust features, will provide our customers with the critical reliability we have come to expect from Seagate as well as the expanded storage and ability to save data for even longer periods.”
Designed to support surveillance recordings from a number of cameras no matter their resolution requirements, Surveillance HDD supports up to 32 channels and easily handles the higher write workloads required by surveillance systems. It also supports the flexibility required to scale a surveillance solution, supporting more data for longer periods of time and meeting industry archive and resolution requirements. These features, coupled with the integrated R/V sensors, improve drive performance in multi-drive and RAID systems and increase the value of surveillance data by delivering the highest data integrity possible.
“We have enjoyed great success with Seagate drives for years and see even greater potential with the Surveillance HDD particularly in the network video recording space,” said Zheng Weirong, marketing director of Hikvision. “With more options to stream and consolidate video footage into a single solution, this new drive allows us to improve the size and capacity of our systems without compromising system reliability.”
The drive’s improved time-to-read system allows installers to customize power settings and better support motion-activated cameras – ensuring their customers never miss a frame. Drives spin down for energy-saving efficiency when no motions are detected by cameras, while quickly powering back up to ensure a frame is never missed when a motion-sensing camera is triggered.
Boasting industry-leading reliability, the Surveillance HDD has a 1 million hour MTBF, (mean time between failure) allowing the product to be kept in the field longer while reducing the cost of field deployment and maintaining customer retention. The drive is also engineered for low power consumption and heat emissions allowing solution providers greater design flexibility.
For more information on the Seagate Surveillance HDD please visit www.seagate.com/www/surveillancehdd
Monday, January 20, 2014
SEAGATE ULTRA MOBILE HDD POWERS HAIER COMPUTER’S FIRST 13-INCH TABLET/PC, THE SAILING P13A
Super-slim Seagate Hard Disk Drive Provides Haier Tablet with 500GB of Storage and the Performance of a Flash Device
“Seagate has an ongoing strategic alliance with Haier and is committed to jointly delivering industry-leading PC products that consumers desire— and the Sailing P13A does just that, said Sandy Sun, Seagate’s vice president and general manager for China. “Outfitted with the Seagate Ultra Mobile HDD, the P13A enables Haier to comfortably integrate high-capacity storage into its Tablet/PC enabling users to enjoy their content in a tablet form factor at home, on-the-go, wherever.”
“Our relationship with Seagate extends over ten years, a partnership that has enabled us to deliver some of the most dynamic, cutting-edge products in the industry as well as fuel growth in China for both companies,” said Zhou Zhaolin, general manager of Haier Computer. “A truly ground-breaking product, the Sail P13A delivers high-capacity storage in one of the thinnest, lightest Tablet/ PC form factors available on the market today and is a perfect example of our strategic alliance.”
To further reinforce reliability for mobile devices, the Seagate Ultra Mobile HDD integrates Seagate’s own Zero Gravity™ Sensor providing better shock management. Incorporated power modes support the drive in sleep, standby and idle enabling it to consume as low as 0.14W and support the long battery life demanded by tablets.
Leveraging the company’s experience with ultra-portable applications like iPods, MP3 players, and handheld video recorders, the newly-engineered Seagate 2.5-inch Ultra Mobile HDD is just 5mm thin while weighing in at a mere 3.3oz— about the same as a light bulb. Its slim, rugged design allows it to be utilized in new emerging applications like convertible and detachable storage.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
SEAGATE ULTRA MOBILE TO POWER LENOVO YOGA 2 PC
Super-slim, 5mm HDD Provides Lenovo Multimode PC with 500GB of Storage at an Affordable Price
MALAYSIA — Jan. 08, 2014 — Seagate Technology plc, a worldwide leader in storage solutions, today announced that it is working with Lenovo, the world’s largest PC maker, to deliver YOGA 2, a new multimode PC powered by the Seagate Laptop Ultrathin HDD. Both companies will demo the YOGA 2 multimode PC at CES 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“Seagate has had an ongoing strategic alliance with Lenovo for many years. By delivering the technology that enables their YOGA 2 with the Laptop Ultrathin HDD, we have succeeded in delivering a high-capacity, lightweight laptop that addresses the needs of consumers and commercial users,” said Scott Horn, Seagate vice president of marketing. “Redefining the laptop and tablet space, this new drive enables consumers to enjoy PC-like storage capacity in a thin and light Ultrabook design.”
“Besides SSD, now we can offer more storage options for our customers with Seagate’s ultra-thin, high-capacity HDD,” said Wentao Yang, Global Procurement VP of Lenovo. “We have extensive collaboration with Seagate across our laptop, desktop, all-in-one and servers, helping deliver innovative products with extreme performance and reliability.”
Leveraging the company’s experience with ultra-portable applications like iPods, MP3 players, and handheld video recorders, the Seagate 2.5-inch Laptop Ultrathin HDD is just 5mm thin while weighing in at a mere 3.3oz— about the same as a light bulb. Its slim, rugged design allows it to be utilized in new emerging applications like convertible and detachable storage.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
NEW SEAGATE BREAKTHROUGH FUNDAMENTALLY ALTERS CLOUD ECONOMICS
Seagate’s Kinetic Open Storage Platform Delivers Radically Simpler and More Efficient Cloud Architecture
MALAYSIA — Nov. 13, 2013 —Seagate Technology, a world leader in storage solutions, today announced that it is redefining cloud storage infrastructure with the unveiling of its internally developed Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform. A significant leap forward in scale-out storage architectures, the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform simplifies data management, improves performance and scalability while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) of average Cloud infrastructures by up to 50 percent.
“With the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform, our internal R&D teams have designed an unique, first-of-its-kind storage architecture to enable cheaper, more scalable object storage solutions that free up IT professionals from having to invest in hardware and software they don’t need— while empowering them with the most innovative storage technology available,” said Rocky Pimentel, Seagate executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer. “This technology optimizes storage solutions for a new era of cloud storage systems, while drastically reducing overall costs.”
“At Yahoo, we’re always looking for new ways to improve efficiency and simplicity of our infrastructure and we’re excited about Seagate’s Kinetic Open Storage platform. Industry has proven time and again that Ethernet always wins— seeing this down to the drive level is a fantastic optimization,” said Kevin Graham, principle storage architect, Yahoo Infrastructure Group. “To that point, we’ve been engaging with Seagate for the past several months on how we can leap ahead of the architectural status quo to provide the most efficient, reliable storage for our users.”
“Seagate's ambitious move into the storage platform space is a natural extension to their core storage business and their new Kinetic Open Storage platform is one that could redefine how data centers are architected going forward,” said, Laura DuBois program vice president IDC Storage Systems, Software and Solutions. “Implementing this technology will empower data centers with more scalable solutions at an industry-low TCO— driving change in the world of storage.”
Redefining hardware and software capabilities, the platform enables cloud service providers and independent software vendors to optimize scale-out file and object-based storage— simply and effectively. With the Kinetic Open Storage platform, applications can now manage specific features and capabilities and rapidly implement and deploy in any cloud storage software stack. The technology also increases I/O efficiency by removing bottlenecks and optimizing cluster management, data replication, migration, and active archive performance.
To learn more about the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform or to download tool kits and start developing an improved, simplified storage architecture visit http://seagate.com/www/kinetic.
Strong Industry Support for Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Platform: In a display of strong support for this new technology, the following leading open source Cloud hardware and software providers are now developing on this platform to improve the scale-out capabilities of storage architectures.
“Basho prides itself on being able to simplify data storage and operations” said Justin Sheehy, CTO for Basho Technologies, Inc. “With Seagate’s Kinetic Open Storage platform, we are able to expand upon this mission and for the first time develop applications that talk directly to the storage device. This enables us to deliver a new class of storage unparalleled in the industry today.”
“Dell is the leader in hyperscale data center solutions because we’re intently focused on delivering cost-effective solutions, tailored to address our customers’ workloads and maximize application performance, and the Seagate Kinetic Open Source platform helps us on that mission,” said Tracy Davis, vice president and general manager of Dell’s Data Center Solutions group. “By implementing Kinetic technology into our customers’ hyperscale environments, we are providing them with highly scalable solutions that reduce storage complexity and cost through increased integration.”
“At EVault we are constantly seeking out the most innovative IT solutions that will empower our company with the edge we need to succeed and Seagate’s Open Kinetic Storage platform definitely delivers,” said Terry Cunningham, president and general manager of EVault, a Seagate company. “We have been engaged with this technology over the past several months and are a big believer that it can truly optimize both new and existing storage platforms, while providing more flexibility than traditional storage architectures.”
“Key/value data storage and IP interface drive modules are an important trend for scale-out storage systems and Huawei has been a leader in delivering massive storage systems with these technologies,” said Yuan Yuan, senior director of Huawei’s IT Massive Storage. “We are excited to support Seagate's Kinetic technology, which delivers extra benefits by integrating key/value and Ethernet/IP into storage devices.”
“We are excited to integrate this technology into our products as we believe that an open platform such as this is the future of storage,” said Steve Ichinaga, senior vice president and general manager for Hyve Solutions. “Implementing Seagate’s new Kinetic technology means we can design and build industry-leading platforms that deliver truly optimized solutions for our web-scale customers.”
“We are excited about Seagate's Kinetic Open Storage platform and the potential it has to make open storage technology even more compelling,” said Aaron Sullivan, principal engineer at Rackspace. “There is tremendous growth in the cloud storage solutions market and it is great that Seagate shares the same passion for open standards that Rackspace does.”
“Seagate has been a trusted partner for many years, and we are excited to integrate this technology into our products,” said Jeff Thomas, senior vice president of systems and solutions for Newisys, a division of Sanmina. “Seagate’s new Kinetic Open Storage platform enables us to design cutting-edge platforms that provide our customers with industry-leading freedom and performance all while continuing to deliver robust, reliable solutions that they can count on.”
“Supermicro is laser-focused on delivering optimal solutions for cloud data centers and we are excited to implement Seagate’s Kinetic technology,” said Charles Liang, CEO of Supermicro. “We believe that in working with Seagate on this new object-storage technology, we can deliver significant advantage in cost savings for scale-out storage.”
“The Kinetic Open Storage platform enables next-gen architectures for deploying cloud storage, particularly software-defined storage,” said Joe Arnold, CEO of SwiftStack. “With growing interest and adoption of open source technologies, like OpenStack Object Storage, Seagate is proving its position at the forefront of storage innovation.”
“In the last few years, we have been shipping an object-based storage solution in our ClusterStor™ offering, and we clearly see object-based storage as a key part of our future,” said Ernest Sampias, CEO for Xyratex. “What the Seagate team is doing fits together nicely with our strategy. We are pleased to partner with them and bring improved performance and scalability to our customers.”
Friday, November 8, 2013
SEAGATE’S SAMSUNG HDD DIVISION SHIPS WORLD’S THINNEST 2TB STORAGE SOLUTION
High capacity and thin design hard drive gives customers the ideal solution for external and mobile applications
MALAYSIA — November 8, 2013 — Seagate Technology today announced that its Samsung HDD division is shipping the new 2.5-inch Spinpoint M9T, which at 9.5 mm thin is the world’s thinnest 2TB hard drive. Offered in capacities of 1.5TB and 2TB, the Spinpoint M9T mobile drive gives OEMs, channel system integrators and consumers a thin, high-capacity storage solution ideal for external storage, notebook integration and upgrades, desktop, and gaming system applications.
“The M9T combines the highest areal density shipping in a single storage device with an innovative design that fits into mainstream notebook applications. While other 2TB are solutions on the market are 15 mm thick, the vast majority of mobile devices are designed to use a 9.5 mm drive; with the M9T, those devices can now have 2TB of storage, enabling a richer computing experience,” said Dave Frankovich, senior product line manager, Samsung HDD.
“With consumer demand for storage capacity continuing to grow in mobile applications, the M9T answers this demand and is positioned to fulfill capacity needs in virtually any application.”
Spinpoint M9T includes a SATA 6Gb/s interface and microactuation to ensure fast, consistent hard drive performance, along with NoiseGuard™ and SilentSeek™ technologies to deliver ultra-quiet operation.
Availability
The Spinpoint M9T hard drive is currently available in the Samsung Portable product line, which includes the M3 Portable and P3 Portable external drives, as well as with select partners. Learn more at http://samsunghdd.seagate.com.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
SEAGATE ANNOUNCES NEW EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS
Dave Mosley Named President, Operations and Technology; Rocky Pimentel Named President, Global Markets and Customers
MALAYSIA — October 30, 2013 — Seagate Technology, a world leader in storage solutions, today announced two strategic executive appointments to further Seagate’s effectiveness in delivering its core product technology portfolio, customer engagement and operational excellence.
Dave Mosley, who most recently served as Executive Vice President of Operations and R&D, has been named President, Operations and Technology, responsible for Seagate’s global hard drive, heads and media manufacturing operations, as well as global research and development.
Rocky Pimentel, who most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, has been named President, Global Markets and Customers, responsible for Seagate’s global customer engagement, sales, sales operations, product line management, marketing and retail activities. Both will continue to report to Steve Luczo, Chairman and CEO.
“These appointments reflect the significant opportunities in front of Seagate,” said Luczo. “We believe that the trajectory of long-term demand for storage is outpacing supply, and the markets that we serve are both expanding and changing rapidly. Our traditional OEM and distribution customers are addressing important opportunities with new technology offerings and go-to-market capabilities.
We are also actively engaging with many new customers directly, especially in the cloud services market and with start-up businesses that are also pursuing innovative technical approaches for their storage infrastructures and lack significant go-to-market capabilities.
“By elevating Dave and Rocky to lead our core product technology, operations and customer engagement, Seagate is even better positioned for continued operational excellence and to further our ability to capitalize on our growing opportunities in the storage marketplace.
Additionally, this new alignment of our leadership allows me to focus more on the longer term strategic opportunities for our company, and to increase my efforts around accelerating our mobile and cloud technology strategies. These promotions are well-deserved and we are fortunate to have two executives as capable as Dave and Rocky to step into these important roles.”
Since joining Seagate in 1996, Mosley has held a variety of leadership positions, including: executive vice president of sales and marketing; vice president and site management team leader for Seagate’s Longmont, Colorado, operation; senior director for R&D engineering; and he has led Seagate’s emerging products development team. Prior to joining Seagate, Mosley was a research physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a senior engineer at Micropolis and Conner Peripherals.
Prior to joining Seagate in 2011, Pimentel served on the Company’s Board of Directors and was a member of the early Seagate management team, working with founders Al Shugart and Finis Conner. He also was part of the founding management team at Conner Peripherals. Since that time, his diverse career experience has included COO and CFO at McAfee, senior vice president and CFO at LSI Logic, and senior leadership positions at Glu Mobile, Zone Labs, WebTV Networks and Redpoint Ventures. Pimentel currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at Xilinx, Inc., Imperva, Inc. and LifeLock, Inc.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
SEAGATE DELIVERS ON TECHNOLOGY MILESTONE: FIRST TO SHIP HARD DRIVES USING NEXT-GENERATION SHINGLED MAGNETIC RECORDING
Shingled Magnetic Technology is the First Step to Reaching a 20 Terabyte Hard Drive by 2020
MALAYSIA — October 2, 2013 —Seagate Technology plc, a world leader in storage solutions, today announced it has shipped over one million drives using shingled magnetic recording (SMR). SMR is the next generation in storage technology and is critical for continued improvement in areal density (the amount of data that can be stored on a single disk) to support global growth in cloud and mobile usage. The SMR generation of storage technology is expected to power gains of up to 25 percent.
“With nearly 7 billion inhabitants on earth we are creating an astounding 2.7 Zettabytes of data a year and as such are rapidly approaching the physical limits of how much can be written on a single conventional hard disk drive,” said Mark Re, Seagate’s chief technology officer. “With SMR technology, Seagate is on track to improve areal density by up to 25 percent or 1.25TB per disk, delivering hard drives with the lowest cost per gigabyte and reaching capacities of 5TB and beyond.”
The last technology transition, perpendicular recording, improved areal density by arranging the bits in a perpendicular fashion, thereby enabling narrower data tracks and read/write heads. Due to physical limitations read/write heads cannot become smaller. The most reliable option to improve areal density is to change the way data is written to the drive.
This is where SMR technology comes into play. A fundamental change to the architecture of the media, SMR technology rearranges the way data is stored on a disk by overlapping tracks— similar to shingles on a roof— thereby, increasing track density and improving aerial density. As a result of increased track density the amount of data on a single disk increases as does the overall storage capacity of a single drive.
“The HDD industry is experiencing Petabyte shipment growth rates greater than 30 percent per year while at the same time HDD areal density is improving at a rate less than 20 percent per year,” noted John Rydning, IDC’s research vice president, for hard disk drives. “Shingled magnetic recording technology is a solution that leverages existing drive architecture to help close the gap in these growth rates while at the same time providing a relatively simple yet economical path to higher capacity HDDs for many applications.”
Importantly, SMR can improve reliability by allowing Seagate to use fewer heads and disks to achieve new capacity points. SMR also provides a better value by increasing storage capacity while utilizing the same disk and heads as drive configurations shipping today thereby, providing a more cost-effective approach to increasing aerial density.
For more information on Seagate shingled magnetic recording technology click here http://seagate.com/www/smr .
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
SEAGATE REDEFINES TABLET MARKET
Ultra Mobile HDD Solution Empowers Tablets with 500GB of Storage and the Performance of a Flash Device
MALAYSIA — Sept. 24, 2013 —Seagate Technology plc, a world leader in storage solutions, today took the wraps off the new Seagate Ultra Mobile HDD designed exclusively for mobile devices. Integrated with the Seagate Mobile Enablement Kit which includes Seagate’s Dynamic Data Driver software technology, the new storage solution delivers up to 7x the storage capacity of a traditional 64GB tablet with the same power, performance and reliability of a flash device.
“Coupling an ultra-thin, high-capacity HDD with software designed to optimize integration into tablets at a value-add price has allowed us to deliver a truly ground-breaking solution, enabling our partners to reimagine the mobile device,” said Steve Luczo, president, CEO and chairman of Seagate. “By empowering our OEMs with this revolutionary new technology, we have invited the industry to re-think the mobile market making this offering a true game-changer in the world of storage.”
Seagate has addressed several key areas beyond a standard laptop HDD to optimize mobile applications with the Ultra Mobile HDD and Mobile Enablement Kit. These areas include shock management, heat and vibration and gyroscopic motion— all of which have been heavily tested to ensure the drive delivers the best experience in a tablet solution.
Keeping pace with today’s mobile storage demands presents other challenges as well including power consumption requirements, device drops by consumers and user demands. Merging the new Ultra Mobile HDD with the Dynamic Data Driver software alleviates these obstacles enabling OEMs to comfortably fit high-capacity storage into mobile devices.
Seagate’s use of Dynamic Data Driver software addresses these challenges through a combination of system design considerations. Reduced power consumption and improved performance are achieved through an intelligent caching design that is implemented at the system level. As a result a mobile device using 8GB of flash and the Ultra Mobile HDD and Dynamic Data Driver software have the power consumption equal to that of a 64GB tablet and the performance equal to that of a 16GB tablet— while costing less than either.
The software provides drive protection through the use of enhanced motion sensor and thermal monitoring algorithms to control drive access and avoid usage conditions that might harm it. The drive is so well insulated that in many cases a dropped device’s screen would break before its hard disk drive.
To further reinforce reliability for mobile devices, the Ultra Mobile HDD integrates Seagate’s own Zero Gravity Sensor providing better shock management. Incorporated power modes support the drive in sleep, standby and idle enabling it to consume as low as 0.14W and support the long battery life demanded by tablets. Its slim, rugged design allows it to be utilized in new emerging applications like convertible and detachable storage.
Leveraging the company’s experience with ultra-portable applications like iPods, MP3 players, and handheld video recorders, the newly-engineered 2.5-inch drive is just 5mm thin while weighing in at a mere 3.3oz— about the same as a light bulb. Featuring up to 500GB of capacity, it delivers the highest areal density available in a small, ultra-thin form factor while supporting over 100,000 photos, 125,000 songs or 62 hours of high-definition video and movies.
The Seagate Mobile Enablement Kit includes the Ultra Mobile HDD, Dynamic Data Driver software, and an optional customized reference design which allows HDD-powered tablets to transparently deliver high-capacity storage space to an end user in a mobile solution. The kit is currently designed to support the Android operating system.
The Seagate Ultra Mobile HDD will be available separately and as part of the Seagate Mobile Enablement Kit. Dynamic Data Driver software not sold separately. For more information on both products please visit http://seagate.com/www/mobilekit.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
SEAGATE UNVEILS WORLD’S FASTEST ENTERPRISE HARD DRIVE
New, Ultra-Fast Enterprise Hybrid Drive Technology provides up to a 3X increase in random performance over existing solutions
MALAYSIA — August 15, 2013 — Seagate Technology, a world leader in storage solutions, today announced it is shipping the world’s fastest hard drive— the Seagate Enterprise Turbo SSHD. The industry’s first enterprise solid state hybrid drive (SSHD), the Enterprise Turbo SSHD combines the capacity of a hard drive with solid-state flash enabling high-speed performance for mission critical data.
Setting a new standard in mission critical performance, the Enterprise Turbo SSHD provides up to a 3X increase in random performance over existing 15K-RPM drives and is available with up to 600GB of capacity. By unifying the best of solid-state and magnetic technologies, Turbo improves tiered storage performance combining accelerated speed with hard disk drive (HDD) high-capacity.
IBM is using Seagate SSHD Technology
Over the past year, Seagate and IBM have been putting an enterprise SSHD prototype through its paces. After months of testing in Seagate and IBM labs, the first enterprise SSHD has been introduced as an option for the IBM System x servers. For more information, click here.
Storage Performance Council benchmarks confirm Seagate SSHD technology as performance leader:
Based on preliminary performance testing using standard system benchmarking tools, a 10K-RPM version of enterprise SSHD boasts IOPS over 2X better than a standard 600GB 10K-RPM hard disk drive. The end result is much improved and more cost effective performance for servers running mission critical applications such as big data analytics, virtual desktop infrastructure, and database and transaction processing. For more on the preliminary Seagate enterprise SSHD performance benchmarking click here for Storage Performance Council benchmarks.
The Enterprise Turbo SSHD enables lower cost server and storage configurations, making it appealing for OEMs and system builders who demand the highest, scalable performance at an affordable cost. It also delivers up to 3X the current mission critical HDD random performance at an HDD-comparable price. An extremely efficient and economical storage solution, the drive provides significantly improved $/IOPS.
The drive fine tunes storage tiering by caching at the I/O level, thereby addressing performance gaps and bottlenecks often found in tiered system environments. It also offers a self-encrypting drive option to maximize security for data-at-rest.
Key features of the Seagate Enterprise Turbo SSHD include:
• World’s Fastest Enterprise Hard Drive— boasts ultra-fast speed with up to 3X the increase in random performance over standard 15K-RPM drives.
• Industry’s First Enterprise SSHD— delivers transparent SSD-like performance to most heavily accessed data.
• Ultimate Capacity— features up to 600GB of capacity— the highest enterprise performance drive available today.
• Affordably Priced— yields 3X the current mission critical HDD random performance at an HDD-comparable price.
• High-Reliability— provides enterprise endurance and reliability.
Additional information on the Seagate Enterprise Turbo SSHD can be found by visiting www.seagate.com/www/turbo.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
New Seagate Enterprise Hard Disk Drives Deliver High-Capacity Big Power Savings
MALAYSIA – July 24, 2013 — Seagate Technology, a world leader in storage solutions, today unveiled two new enterprise-class hard disk drives (HDD) optimized for emerging cloud infrastructures and large scale data centers— the Seagate Terascale HDD and the Seagate Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7. Ideal for system builders, the Terascale HDD and Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7 provide high-capacity storage in low-power configurations making them perfect for efficiently and affordably storing the ever-growing amount of unstructured data typically stored in the cloud.
Seagate Terascale HDD
“Over the next eight years, the capacity shipped into the cloud will double and by 2020 personal and enterprise clouds will account for greater than 60 percent of the total storage capacity shipped. With this huge shift of capacity to the cloud, storage providers will need to deploy more storage quickly all while increasing capacity and lowering energy costs,” said Scott Horn, Seagate vice president of marketing. “Engineered with this mind, these new drives deliver on all fronts providing high capacity-to-power ratios and ensuring consistent performance at an affordable cost— making them an ideal solution for the cloud.”
Delivering the highest capacity HDD (4TB) available in a 3.5-inch enterprise-class SATA HDD, the Terascale HDD provides data centers with the maximum storage scalability they need to meet demands in low workload, 24x7 replicated environments. An affordable enterprise platform for storing exabytes of unstructured data in the cloud, the drive is Seagate’s lowest USD/GB enterprise HDD for use in scalable multi-drive systems.
Seagate Terascale HDD
The Terascale HDD lowers costs by operating at one of the lowest enterprise HDD power consumption available— as low as 4.8Watts— reducing ongoing energy and cooling costs for multi-drive large scale operations. As a result, the drive lowers total cost of ownership while providing unparalleled enterprise-class reliability.
Equipped with Seagate’s own Instant Secure Erase (ISE) technology, the Terascale HDD saves money and time by reducing drive erasure times from hours to milliseconds providing quick, safe and easy drive disposal or repurposing. It also features a low-cost 6Gb/s SATA interface for easy integration with lower cost SATA infrastructures.
“As a trusted Seagate Cloud Builder Alliance partner, we have worked closely with the company to consistently develop innovative enterprise storage solutions with high value— and this new Terascale HDD continues in this tradition,” said Wally Liaw, vice president of sales, international, Supermicro. “With this new drive, we are able to deploy innovative, cost-effective storage that scales and has low-power, reducing our total cost of ownership. In fact, our SSG-6047R-E1R72L supports up to 72 of these Seagate Terascale drives delivering unprecedented drive density and capacity.”
Seagate Terascale HDD
Key features of the Seagate Terascale HDD include:
• High-Capacity— highest capacity HDD (4TB) available in a 3.5-inch enterprise-class SATA HDD
enabling scalable, high-capacity storage in 24×7 environments.
• Ultra-low Power Consumption— among the lowest operating power in the industry for 3.5-inch
enterprise HDD, delivering reduced energy and cooling costs.
• Value— Lowest USD/GB for affordable storage for 24×7 multi-drive replicated environments.
• High Vibration Tolerance— improves drive performance for consistent, best-in-class enterprise
system reliability.
• Interface Optimization— 6Gb/s SATA interface for easy system integration and optimized burst
performance.
• Easy Drive Disposal or Repurposing— ISE feature at no additional cost.
For more information on the Seagate Terascale HDD please visit www.seagate.com/www/terascale
Seagate Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7— High-Capacity Meets High Performance
Rounding out its enterprise portfolio, Seagate also today announced the next-gen version of its Enterprise Performance 10K HDD— the Seagate Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7. A 2.5-inch 10K-RPM enterprise hard disk drive, the new Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7 delivers high-capacity in a mission critical drive enabling storage professionals to build optimum data storage solutions with consistently high performance and reliability in a low power envelope.
The Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7 is equipped with 1.2TB of data storage providing data centers with both the performance needed for the most write-intensive applications and the scalability to meet storage growth and business objectives. Ideal for mission critical server and storage solutions, the drive is engineered for high performance computing and high random and sequential workloads including database transaction processing and high workload servers that process mission critical data in power and space constrained data centers.
Extremely energy-efficient, the Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7 delivers one of the highest GB/Watt power optimization and cooling costs in a 2.5-inch enterprise 10K HDD available. The drive also incorporates Seagate’s PowerChoice technology which enables IT organizations to tailor systems for enhanced power consumption during idle periods. It is equipped with a 6Gb/s SAS interface for dependable ultra-fast storage.
Key features of the Seagate Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7 include:
• High-Capacity— twice the capacity of legacy 3.5-inch, 15K-RPM hard drives at the same
performance (204MB/s SDR) within a lower power envelope.
• Unified Architecture— reduces complexity and costs by converging disparate interfaces, form
factors and security standards.
• Small Footprint— 2.5-inch form factor enables data centers to keep pace with data growth and
optimize data center real estate.
• RAID Recovery— Seagate RAID Rebuild technology makes RAID recovery faster and safer.
• Instant Secure Erase Technology— makes it safe, fast, and easy to retire or repurpose drives at
no additional cost.
For more information on the Seagate Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7 please visit
www.seagate.com/www/enterprise10k
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Organize Your Home With Seagate Central Shared Storage
New Award-winning, Simplified Network Backup Solution
Easily Brings Access and Sharing to All Your Files
MALAYSIA, July 4, 2013 — Seagate Technology today announced its next-generation, networked home storage solution, Seagate Central shared storage— the first storage device to feature a Smart TV app for access to files on the big screen. A CES 2013 Innovations Honoree, Seagate Central delivers automatic backup for the entire home, access to digital movies and music from networked devices, as well as remote access from outside a home network. Seagate has also taken a new step in making Central storage a low-profile horizontal design, which takes cues from home entertainment and looks great in any living room.
Simple, Central – Multi-Computer Backup
Seagate built this product for simplicity. By focusing on the number one need for homes with more than one computer, Seagate designed an easy, centralized backup for each computer in the home, regardless of operating system. Seagate retooled the software and user experience for the Seagate Central shared storage so that it seamlessly provides a backup for each system on a home network, even in a mixed platform environment of Windows OS and Mac OS X computers. In addition to automatic and continuous backup of all the computers in a home, Seagate Central can also backup photos and videos directly from Facebook, a feature first introduced in the award-winning Backup Plus line of external drives.
A recent study from Parks Associates found consumers keep content in a wide variety of places including sites like Facebook. The average broadband household has 8% of their music, video, and photo content on social networking sites.
“Consumers are looking for storage solutions that help them consolidate and safeguard the content they’ve got scattered across a growing number of places,” said John Barrett, director of Consumer Analytics at Parks Associates. “Young consumers in particular do not have central repositories of content but rather many places where content naturally ends-up as a result of their media habits.”
Enjoy Your Movies and Music
In addition to its primary role as a total home backup device to organize content in one location, Central storage is also designed for easy media streaming. Once all your files and rich media are safely on the drive, Central storage organizes the content for you according to media type, such as videos, pictures, music and documents. Seagate then makes it easier than ever before to access entertainment and documents by providing free apps for Samsung Smart TVs and Blu-ray players, as well as Apple® iOS devices, Amazon Kindle HD and Android mobile devices. Central is DLNA certified and also works with Apple® AirPlay®, which means nearly any network-connected device can connect to it.
New App, New Look,
The newly designed Seagate Media app, available for Android, Kindle Fire HD and Apple iOS, delivers a seamless, user-friendly experience for accessing, downloading or sharing files from Seagate Central shared storage. The experience is the same within the network or connecting to Central storage remotely. Files are easy to enjoy through the visually appealing app interface. Everything is organized by category as well as folder view. The Seagate media app and Seagate Central storage will ensure that you always have access to the files you need when you need them.
Pricing and Availability: Seagate Central Shared storage is currently available at a suggested retail price of RM 469.00 (2TB); RM 599.00 (3TB); RM 789.00 (4TB).
Friday, June 14, 2013
New Seagate NAS Storage Solution Delivers Industry’s Highest Capacity And Best Performance
Custom-Built NAS HDDs Launched with Strong Support from Top NAS Providers
MALAYSIA, June 14, 2013 — Seagate Technology today took the wraps off its new Seagate NAS HDD— a cutting-edge drive custom-built for always-on, one- to five-bay network attached storage (NAS) systems. Engineered with performance and reliability in mind, the new drives are available in multiple capacity points including a 4TB option— the industry’s highest capacity NAS hard disk drive (HDD) solution available— and strong industry support from nine NAS system partners.
“Today about 50 percent of NAS arrays is sold diskless meaning that customers are challenged with identifying and installing the right storage for their system. By developing a drive like NAS HDD, we’ve taken the guesswork out of it and made it easy for customers to identify the right drive for their system,” said Scott Horn, Seagate vice president of marketing. “By collaborating closely with a variety of partners who specialize in NAS systems, we’re making what was a confusing effort into a plug-and-play one.”
Cost effective drives built specifically for NAS solutions, the 4TB option has the capacity to store over 819,000 photos, 1 million songs or nearly 500 hours of high-definition (HD) video content—more than enough space for the average household. It is also ideal for small businesses with large enough capacities to support CAD files, medical images and databases.
“QNAP is thrilled to be teaming up with Seagate to offer our customers a high-performance storage solution optimized for NAS systems,” said Meiji Chang, general manager of QNAP. “The Seagate NAS HDD allows us to deliver the highest capacity storage offering on the market while providing our customers with a huge boost in performance and a reliable business level NAS solution for 24x7 operations.”
“Households and SMBs continue to generate a significant amount of data, and need fast and reliable storage solutions,” said John Rydning, IDC's research vice president for hard disk drives. “Rather than taking hours or days to transfer a large amount of digital content over the internet to a cloud storage service provider, Seagate’s new NAS HDD provides a high-capacity solution for fast data transfers and backups on-premise over local networks.”
Built to provide up to 10 percent performance advantage, over the competition for 24x7 NAS applications, the NAS HDD is engineered for performance in always on applications and can support multiple HD video streams and user profiles. The drive boasts near silent acoustics operating below the range of audible sound for the human ear with as low as 1.9 bels, providing optimized acoustics for the home or SMB environment. It also features Seagate’s own NASWorks™ technology which improves drive reliability by supporting features that limit drive vibrations and support extended error recovery controls for better data integrity.
Seagate NAS HDDs are built and tested to provide industry-leading performance for small NAS systems.
Key features of the NAS HDD include:
• Industry’s Highest Capacity NAS Drive— up to 4TB available, the NAS HDD offers a 30 percent capacity advantage over the competition.
• Best Performance for 1- to -5-bay NAS Systems— built and tested to provide industry-leading performance, NAS HDDs offer the industry’s highest throughput to deliver the performance demanded by NAS solutions.
• NASWorks— supports error correction via customized error recovery controls, power management and vibration tolerance for optimal performance and reliability in a 1- to 5-bay solution.
• Improved Vibration Tolerance— dual-plane balance supports the unique weighted motor design minimizing vibration that can be amplified in multi-drive systems improving the drive’s performance and system reliability.
• Advanced Power Management— supports multiple user-selectable power profiles that can optimize power usage for different workloads to minimize power consumption while maintaining high-availability performance.
• Quiet Drive Operation— enhances the end customer experience with near-silent acoustics for low-noise environments like living rooms or office spaces.
Designed with compatibility in mind, Seagate NAS hard disk drives have been rigorously tested by some of today’s top NAS providers and flawlessly integrated into their NAS solutions. For more information on the Seagate NAS HDD and qualified OEM partners please visit www.seagate.com/www/nashdd.
Strong NAS Partner Support
“Seagate's new NAS hard drives have been fully verified as being compatible with all ASUSTOR NAS products. Our users demand reliable performance for 24x7 applications and we are glad to be able to offer them more choices when selecting specialized hard disks for their NAS,” said Shawn Shu, president of ASUSTOR. “We are excited for the launch of the Seagate NAS hard drives and believe that a combination of these drives with ASUSTOR’s full range of NAS products will create an optimal user experience.”
“D-Link prides itself on developing innovative and intuitive solutions. By adding Seagate’s new NAS HDD to our compatible product list, we continue to make it easy for our customers to choose the right storage and get the best experience and reliability from their D-Link NAS,” said Jocelyn Chung, D-Link vice president of marketing, D-Link global headquarters.
“LenovoEMC is focused on delivering innovative and cost-effective storage solutions that our customers value,” said Eric Arcese, president and general manager, LenovoEMC Ltd. “Seagate’s new NAS HDD has been built and tested to provide a performance advantage for always-on NAS applications while at the same time being offered at an affordable price. As a qualified drive for use with Lenovo network storage products, the NAS HDD gives our customers the opportunity to further maximize the return on their technology investments— that’s what we call a ‘win-win’ all around.”
“Seagate has been a trusted partner for many years, and we are excited to integrate these new drives into our DiskStations and RackStations,” said Vic Hsu, CEO of Synology Inc. “By supporting Seagate’s new NAS HDD, Synology will provide users with more freedom in the choice of hard drives and continue to deliver robust and reliable NAS solutions that our customers can count on.”
“The majority of our NAS systems are sold diskless so it just makes sense to partner with an industry leader like Seagate and bring a product to market that is purpose built for NAS arrays,” said Florence Shih, general manager of Thecus Technology. “And with a name like NAS HDD, it makes it easy for customers to ask for the product by name and know that they are getting the right drive for our solutions.”
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Industry Giants Line Up For Seagate Ultra-Thin 5mm Hard Disk Drive
Laptop Ultrathin HDD Set to Redefine the Tablet and Mobile Computing Markets
MALAYSIA, June 12, 2013 — Seagate Technology - a world leader in storage solutions, today announced it’s shipping its thinnest hard disk drive (HDD) ever to OEM partners— the Seagate® Laptop Ultrathin HDD. Just 5mm thin, the Laptop Ultrathin HDD is designed to be integrated into ultra-thin, lightweight mobile computing devices and tablets all while delivering high capacity storage at an affordable price.
“When we originally demonstrated this solution last September, we knew we had a truly innovative product that would empower our partners to reimagine mobile applications,” said Steve Luczo, president, CEO and chairman of Seagate. “The strong support from our OEM partners indicates we have delivered on our vision and look forward to a new wave of innovative solutions enabled by this revolutionary product.”
“The new Seagate Laptop Ultrathin truly raises the bar, enabling us to finally create high-capacity, thin and light laptops that consumers crave at mass-market price points they can afford,” said S.Y. Shian, corporate vice president and general manager of Asus’ notebook business unit. “The drive’s capacity, coupled with its ultra-slim, lightweight footprint, empowers our engineers to think out of the box and create truly ground-breaking, innovative system designs— it’s a win- win for both us and the consumer.”
Delivering the best cost per GB and cost per millimeter in the industry for ultrathin applications, the svelte high-capacity drive can support over 100,000 photos, 125,000 songs or 62 hours of high-definition video. The Laptop Ultrathin incorporates a 6Gb/s SATA interface for fast data transfer rates and comes with the industry standard SATA connection for easy integration into existing laptops supported by both hard drive and SSD storage. SED encryption is available on the 500GB capacity version.
Strong Industry Support
“Dell’s heritage is built on empowering our customers to do more with their technology investments with our unbeatable back-end expertise and cost-effective, tailored solutions that empower end-users and IT administrators alike,” said Kirk Schell, vice president, personal computer product group, Dell. “Our partnership with Seagate on hard disk drive technology enables us to provide our customers with reliable, leading-edge, thin and light ultrabook and laptop designs with long battery life and uncompromised storage capacity.”
“Portable devices have a voracious appetite for data, yet at the same time, owners demand thinner and lighter systems. Seagate has solved both by productizing the Laptop Ultrathin HDD,” says Richard Doherty, research director for The Envisioneering Group. “Slimmer than a pencil, this revolutionary new hard disk drive gives freedom to designers and convenience to consumers and businesses alike.”
“Our primary focus is to create IT solutions that deliver value. With consumers ever-increasing demand for high-capacity mobile computing devices, coupled with today’s data-intensive applications, cutting-edge technologies such as Seagate’s 5mm HDD are crucial for meeting end-user’s expectations,” said Wentao Yang, vice president of Lenovo global procurement. “And this new drive delivers on all fronts— not only enabling higher performance in many applications but also delivering high-capacity storage and providing consumers with a premium computing experience.”
Thursday, June 6, 2013
SEAGATE DELIVERS ON SOLID STATE STRATEGY: UNVEILS COMPLETE SSD PRODUCT LINE
Company Unveils First Client SSD, Next-Generation Enterprise SSDs, and PCIe Accelerator Card
MALAYSIA, June 6, 2013 —Seagate Technology, a worldwide leader in storage solutions, today announced its new portfolio of flash-memory solutions. The company took the wraps off its first client solid state drive (SSD) and its next-generation enterprise SSDs. Featuring the Seagate 600 SSD, Seagate 600 Pro SSD, and the Seagate 1200 SSD, the new line of drives are engineered to deliver ultra-fast speed and high data integrity. Rounding out the portfolio, Seagate also announced the new Seagate X8 Accelerator, a storage class memory PCIe card powered by Virident enabling the company to offer all key interfaces including SATA and SAS solutions.
“We are pleased to announce these new flash memory products. With these new drives, Seagate solidifies its commitment to the flash-based storage market by delivering enterprise SSDs and server-side solutions as well as client solutions,” said Gary Gentry, senior vice president and general manager of Seagate’s solid state drive business. “By adding more SSDs to our family of hard disk and solid state hybrid drives, we now have the broadest portfolio of storage products in the industry, delivering one-stop shopping for our customers and partners. And we’re just getting started. Seagate is committed to becoming a premier supplier of both solid state drives and storage class memory products. We have put in place a winning strategy for developing multiple high value, flash based products and solutions for our customers.”
Seagate 600 SSD: Faster Performance with 6Gb/s SATA
The ultimate laptop upgrade, the Seagate 600 SSD delivers faster boot up speeds, shorter application load times, and improved system responsiveness for the ultimate performance. Laptop users can boot up nearly four times faster and load applications more than two times faster than with a standard hard drive, greatly reducing the amount of wait time to access content.
“SSDs continue to be among the most popular product categories on Newegg.com as more consumers increasingly turn to them to deliver more speed, faster boot up times and superior performance,” said Patrick Chung, vice president of global product management at Newegg. “Seagate’s new line of SSDs, including the new 600 SSD, will be a great addition to our existing assortment. We’re excited to introduce the new SSDs to our customers and look forward to continuing our strategic partnership with Seagate.”
“Over the years, Seagate has been a valued partner contributing a vast array of storage solutions to our comprehensive selection of IT products,” says Lionel Garcia, vice president at Tiger Direct. “Seagate’s products are in high demand among our customers and we’re excited to add their new SSD to our assortment. As consumer demand for greater speed and shorter boot up times continues to rise, the new 600 SSD will provide customers with the ultimate performance they crave.”
Fast and as easy to install as a hard disk drive upgrade, the Seagate 600 SSD is available in multiple z-heights including an industry-first, diminutive 5mm-high drive making it ideal for most ultra-thin devices as well as standard laptop systems. The drive features up to 480GB of capacity and comes in a 2.5 form factor. It also incorporates a 6Gb/s SATA interface for fast data transfer rates and easy connection.
Seagate 600 Pro SSD—Fast Performance, Low Power with 6Gb/s SATA
A low power server and storage solution, the Seagate 600 Pro SSD is ideal for cloud system builders, hyperscale datacenters, cloud service providers, content delivery networks, and virtualized environments. An entry-level enterprise SATA SSD, the 600 Pro SSD combines fast performance and lower power delivering best-in-class performance efficiency and IOPS/watt value.
“By incorporating Seagate's SSD technology into our product offerings we are able to address customer demand for greater speed, short, consistent response times, and greater enclosure and power efficiencies,” said Paul Poynter, CTO Rorke Data, an Avnet business unit. “As we continue to drive PC innovation in today's markets, we look forward to integrating this enterprise SSD technology into our Rorke product line providing our discerning customers with the ultimate in performance and value.”
Engineered with efficiency in mind, the 600 Pro SSD features the industry’s highest IOPS/watt to improve system performance while reducing power and cooling costs for transaction-hungry datacenters and cloud enterprise applications. Utilizing 2.8 watts typical operating power, the drive reduces energy by automatically adjusting the power consumption to workload I/O levels— using less power for lighter workloads. The drive is also equipped with the intelligence to deliver high-data integrity, safeguarding against unexpected power loss and undetected corruption when a device is powered off.
The Seagate 600 Pro SSD is available with up to 480GB capacity and comes in 2.5-inch form factor. It is equipped with a 6Gb/s SATA interface for fast data transfer rates and easy connection to existing SATA infrastructure.
Seagate 1200 SSD— Ultra-Fast Speed, Consistent Performance with 12Gb/s SAS
Designed for demanding enterprise storage and server applications with complex, write-intensive mixed workloads, such as high-performance computing and data analytics, the Seagate 1200 SSD delivers the ultimate in speed, consistent performance and the highest levels of data integrity.
Built to deliver ultra-fast data access, the drive uses algorithms that optimize performance for frequently accessed data by prioritizing which storage operations, reads or writes, occur first and optimizing where it is stored. The result is improved performance to help close the gap between processor and data access.
It incorporates a dual port 12Gb/s SAS connector providing 100 percent faster interface speed, over previous generations, for twice the I/O bandwidth while ensuring the highest level of reliability, availability and scalability. The drive is also backwards compatible with 6Gb/s SAS environments.
The 1200 SSD leverages Seagate’s existing enterprise expertise and manufacturing excellence to deliver high levels of data integrity, manageability, testing and support. It also safeguards data against unexpected power loss and protects data from undetected, unintentional corruption.
Seagate X8 Accelerator— Application Performance Turbocharged
The Seagate X8 Accelerator, powered by Virident, delivers memory-class performance and storage-class capacity with enterprise reliability and data integrity in a single, low profile PCIe card. Providing industry-leading performance, with up to 1.1 million IOPS, the X8 Accelerator boosts server performance with ultra-fast speed that is up to 2X faster than the closest competitor and closer to DRAM performance than storage.
Boasting high storage capacity (up to 2.2TB) in a small footprint (HHHL half height half length) the X8 Accelerator fits in any server. The card’s x8 PCI Express Gen-2 interface enables it to deliver maximum application performance in database and virtualization applications such as Microsoft© SQL Server, Oracle Enterprise Server, MySQL, and VMware.
For more information on Seagate’s entire portfolio of flash memory products visit
http://seagate.com/www/ssd/.
