With its recent acquisition of Xyratex and EVault, Seagate brings decades of experience as a storage solutions leader to bear on the fast growing field of high performance computing (HPC).

The company has created an Intelligent Information Infrastructure system to help organizations involved with HPC manage today’s massive growth of digital data and cope with next generation workloads. A foundational pillar to the recently announced Cloud Systems & Solutions division is ClusterStor, a fully integrated Lustre-based scale out solution designed for HPC, Cloud and Big Data customers.

Coping with this amount of data growth is a major challenge. Leading analyst firms predict that overall volume of digital bits created, replicated and consumed across the United States alone will reach over 40 zettabytes (about one billion terabytes) by 2020. Much of that will be in the form of unstructured data. Seagate is well positioned to help organizations manage their data growth and create actionable information.

The Seagate Solution

Seagate, founded in 1979, has the experience and the knowledge to meet the storage challenges posed by the rapid growth of HPC and Big Data. It took the company 29 years to ship one billion hard drives. Less than five years later, Seagate became the first company to surpass the two billion drives-shipped milestone.

Xyratex, which would have celebrated its 20 anniversary this year, has shipped nearly two million enclosures. The acquisition brings all the benefits of two decades of experience to bear on Seagate’s ongoing development of storage products.

ClusterStor

A prime example is the ClusterStor family, based on decades of Seagate and Xyratex experience in storage design and working with Lustre, an open source high-performance parallel file system typically used for scale-out computing.

The top of the line ClusterStor 9000 delivers superior scale-out storage quality and performance efficiency. It is designed to help HPC and Big Data customers plan, deploy and sustain optimal application performance, and delivers 50% higher performance than previous ClusterStor platforms.

The ClusterStor 9000 and its other family members, the ClusterStor 6000 and ClusterStor 1500, are the most efficient HPC storage solutions on the market. The ClusterStor architecture allows the systems to achieve greater performance per disk drive, an advantage that proliferates throughout the rack. This becomes critical at scale – better performance means fewer devices, fewer failures, a reduced administrative burden, and improved TCO. Less equipment also means savings in power, cooling and floor space requirements.

Seagate also has a unique capability unmatched by any of its competitors – continuum of ownership across the component chain. The company designs and manufactures its components and drives, firmware, storage enclosure, software enclosure management and software layer.

The Trusted Leader in HPC Storage

Seagate technology stores 45% of the world’s knowledge and about 50% of public cloud data. Through its systems group (formerly Xyratex), Seagate has shipped nearly two million enclosures for major enterprise original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

Seagate’s storage products for the cloud reduce energy and cooling costs and consume nearly a third less power than competing high-capacity enterprise drives; combined with the efficiencies of ClusterStor the power savings are compelling on their own and extremely powerful at scale The company’s continuum of ownership encompassing every phase of manufacturing, allows Seagate to optimize its processes and products to meet the demands of HPC and Big Data.

With its resilient financial model attuned to leveraging both opportunities and uncertainties, Seagate is well positioned to take advantage of the fast growing market for advanced storage.

Seagate invites you to attend the inaugural ClusterStor User Group event this year at SC’14.  Please click here for more details and/or to meet with us at SC’14.