It’s been six months since Seagate announced the Kinetic Open Storage Platform, and in those six months a lot has happened. Seagate realizes that for such a dramatic shift in how storage is architected in the data center, a number of ecosystem dependencies must be addressed. If you look at what Seagate has done over the past half-year, you will begin to see the pattern of ecosystem enablement take form.
- 10/22/2013: New Seagate Breakthrough Fundamentally Alters Cloud Economics
- 10/22/2013: Kinetic Motion With Seagate and OpenStack Swift
- 10/23/2013: Basho and Seagate Partner to Deliver Scale-Out Cloud Storage Breakthrough
- 11/1/2013: Getting Physical – Seagate Kinetic Drive Hardware
- 1/28/2014: Seagate Contributes To Open Source Community By Unveiling New Development Tools…
- 1/28/2014: Wiwynn showcases new products for gaming and object-oriented storage in OCP Summit V
- 1/28/2014: Hyve Solutions Advances OCP Open Storage Solutions with Seagate Kinetic Open Storage
- 3/10/2014: CeBit 2014: Seagate and Rausch demonstrate first chassis for Seagate Kinetic Open Storage
So what’s on the horizon? I am not going to divulge what Seagate has planned in the next six months, but OpenStack Summit Atlanta is just weeks away, so we can assume Seagate has yet another announcement to make about Kinetic. SwiftStack and Seagate will be presenting at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta. The topic: Case Study: Seagate Kinetic platform in action by SwiftStack CEO Joe Arnold and Seagate Principal Technologist Jim Hughes, so perhaps given this is a case study, we will hear about some real world TCO and performance metrics.
Ultimately, the Kinetic platform must lead to an actual Kinetic drive at some point. Perhaps that will be what all of this ecosystem work ultimately culminates into in 2014.
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