Seagate Unified Storage architecture delivers long-term business sustainability
Historically, the variety of drive interfaces, form factors and now, security solutions, can add complexity and increase costs for both IT professionals and OEMs. Making the wrong choice today creates storage islands in the data centre with no easy path for upgrades - further complicating an already complex environment. The Seagate Unified Storage architecture converges best-of-breed technologies (Serial Attached SCSI, Small Form Factor and Self-Encrypting Drives) into a foundation for powerful yet simple storage that boosts business and operational efficiency while reducing cost and complexity.
The Seagate Unified Storage architecture delivers a storage foundation for companies that are proactively ensuring the long-term sustainability of their business through best-in-class IT practices. Companies will avoid the risk of impacting their own product quality, competitiveness, or profitability when their storage system infrastructure and data center footprint is optimised across power, cooling and performance density. Because the role of small form factor drives are important to the long term efficiency and sustainability of any data center enterprise, Seagate will be extending this component into all tiers of its Unified Storage architecture in the future.
"Standardising on enterprise-class small form factor disk drives with a SAS 2.0 interface, like Seagate's Savvio® 15K.2 drive, will allow for economies of scale for the storage industry," according to John Rydning, IDC's Research Director for hard disk drives. "IDC expects that shipments of small form factor enterprise class drives into enterprise storage solutions will overtake traditional 3.5-inch enterprise class drives in the marketplace by 2009."
"LSI continues to take an active role with Seagate in helping to deliver on next-generation enterprise storage requirements," said Phil Bullinger, executive vice president, Engenio Storage Group, LSI. "Transitioning to a small form factor platform with built-in security and 6Gb/s SAS is a powerful combination for the new Seagate® Unified StorageTM architecture. LSI supports this transition and sees it aligning well with our customers' needs."
