Lattice Chooses Lyve Cloud

Lattice Semiconductor, headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, is the world’s largest volume supplier of FPGAs. The company designs and manufactures devices that help enable secure control, flexible connectivity, and lower power compute acceleration, which are used throughout communications, computing, automotive, industrial and consumer markets.

Maintaining its quality offering meant improving its data storage. Replacing an ageing backup infrastructure, digital conversion of 2,500+ old tape backups, and migration from a soon-to-be former, non-storage-centric cloud repository were at the top of the list.

For starters, Seagate worked with Lattice Semiconductor to migrate workloads to Lyve Cloud using the company’s preferred data management software from Rubrik in pass-through mode. This allowed Lattice Semiconductor to begin decommissioning its older infrastructure and move over 70% of its legacy backup data to Lyve Cloud, a more robust and scalable storage solution.

At the start of its updated data-storage initiative, Lattice Semiconductor had 2,500+ data tapes stored at a well-known physical data and records management company’s facilities. As a result, the company did not have easy access to its own data, preventing the team from maximising its value. This was compounded by the additional cost of offsite archiving. Seagate’s Lyve Managed Migration Services — a valuable complement to the Lyve Cloud solution — was used to process the substantial number of tapes, from digitizing their contained data to uploading it to Lyve Cloud. At project start, 1 PB of data was converted, uploaded, and available within a browsable format by April 2022.

The final data storage challenge was to improve Lattice Semiconductor’s TCO in its selected cloud service provider. The proposed plan: migrate 400 TB of backup data from the existing cloud service provider to Seagate’s storage-centric Lyve Cloud. While this phase of the storage initiative is ongoing, the goal is to realise approximately 35% TCO savings over five years, and migrate over 50% of stored data from the prior provider to Lyve Cloud by the end of 2022.