DriveScale With Seagate Enabling Kubernetes and Bare-Metal Clouds

DriveScale, Inc. and Seagate Technology plc collaborated to provide Composable Infrastructure to cloud services companies and data-driven enterprises.

The combined solution has been adopted by a tier-1 webscale adtech customer.

Composable Platform Leverages Standard Hardware Elements
Core to the Composable Platform is Composer, a data center orchestration application that is designed to create, adapt, deploy and later re-deploy compute and storage resources on the fly using pools of disaggregated and heterogeneous compute, storage and network fabric. The firm enables IT admins to define the instances of compute and instances of storage required for a workload, then DriveScale automates the deployment of those resources in a cluster. Performance is equivalent to DAS and applications run unchanged. This empowers any IT organization to provision and modify data center infrastructure to match changing application workloads or resolve hardware failures via software. DriveScale enables a hardware ecosystem and collaborates with storage platform providers like Seagate.

“We are expanding the DriveScale Composable Platform ecosystem with our new certified solution using the Seagate Exos AP 5U84 high density storage system, which lowers the storage cost per petabyte. DriveScale’s Composable software platform combined with Seagate’s storage systems, creates the cloud-like elasticity of both compute and storage in any data center, and lowers costs by 50% by eliminating overprovisioning and decoupling compute node and storage upgrades,” said Denise Shiffman, chief product officer, DriveScale. “AT&T’s adtech division, called AppNexus, is expanding their big data analytics solution already deployed with the DriveScale Composable Platform by adding the Seagate Exos storage system.“

Seagate’s Scalable Data Center Solution
The Seagate Exos systems product line provides high capacity and industry efficiency in modular 2U, 4U and 5U form factors while the Seagate Nytro platforms are designed for flash-based storage. The Exos AP 5U84 supports 84 SAS disk drives in a 5U rack-mount form factor storing up to 1.1PB of data while the embedded Intel Xeon server platform with 100Gb/s Ethernet ports runs the DriveScale Composable software with zero additional rack footprint reducing AppNexus’s data center costs and complexity.

“Seagate’s leadership in HDD innovations and craftsmanship has enabled us to create a complete portfolio of capacity and performance optimized platforms for SDS applications,” said Ken Claffey VP, enterprise data solutions, Seagate. “We are excited to collaborate with DriveScale to deliver an innovative solution for cloud scale data centers.“

“We have deployed the DriveScale Composable Platform with the Seagate Exos AP high density storage system to dramatically improve our compute and storage utilization, while greatly simplifying operations,” said Timothy Smith, SVP and GM, global technical infrastructure and operations, Xandr, a division of AT&T. “The combined DriveScale and Seagate solution has enabled us to increase rack densities substantially and manage our clusters in a flexible way that we could not do in the past.“

Cloud and enterprise data centers interested in DriveScale’s solution can request a demo and onsite trial via the company’s website.

Seagate storage platforms can be ordered from Tech Data Corporation in North America and Hammer in Europe.

Customers can use the driveScale-Seagate solution to implement Composable infrastructure in their data centers.

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