Seagate’s flash vision is anchored in collaboration — be it with strategic suppliers like Micron, Microsoft and Dell, or partnerships with technology leaders like Red Hat.
Using a community-powered open-source approach, Red Hat helps drive many innovative technologies that liberate IT resources. Among these is Ceph, a distributed storage system designed for excellent performance, reliability and scalability.
Red Hat’s Ceph Storage is a massively scalable, open-source solution, which, when combined with Seagate Nytro flash accelerator cards and shingled-magnetic recording (SMR) drives, can satisfy both performance and cost objectives.
Recognizing the steep learning curve in mastering a new technology like Ceph, Red Hat and Seagate organized the first ever Red Hat Storage Day at Seagate in Cupertino to better educate the market. The event attracted over 40 end users with a range of presentations, a “before-and-after” demo showing the benefits of Nytro caching and performance, as well as a “take home” self-paced test drive of Red Hat Ceph Storage.
Break-out sessions explored the value and emerging use cases for the technology, discussed how to utilize Seagate flash products in Ceph deployments, and included a customer spotlight from web-hosting provider Dreamhost.
Together, Red Hat and Seagate emphasized their collective leadership in this space. The Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open-source software solutions.
“We were happy to work with Red Hat as their first partner to support such an event,” said Tony Afshary, director of ecosystem solutions and marketing for flash at Seagate, who also presented on the advantages of Nytro flash products and SMR drives. “This was a great opportunity to bring both of our teams’ knowledge base to the table and position our solutions in front of users to encourage their interest in deploying Red Hat Ceph Storage with Seagate technologies.”
“Red Hat and Seagate worked closely together on this event, with the goal of innovating to solve customer challenges in the datacenter, cloud and beyond”, added Ross Turk, director of product marketing for storage and big data at Red Hat. “With content from Seagate and other members of the Red Hat storage community, we were able to create a fun and engaging environment for our highly technical audience. I think we’ll see relationships with these customers expand as a result, bringing great opportunity.”
