OpenDrives Supports Seagate Exos E JBOD Expansion Enclosures

OpenDrives, Inc. announced that it has expanded certified hardware options to include the Seagate Exos E JBOD expansion enclosures.

This development enables OpenDrives customers to take advantage of an additional scale-up option for its Atlas storage and management platform, combining performance and agility, and providing even more choice when building flexible, economical, data environments.

Effective immediately, Seagate and OpenDrives’ systems integrators can offer combinations of Atlas-based compute modules with the Seagate Exos E JBOD expansion enclosures for raw capacity across OpenDrives’ certified hardware architectures.

“This combination from Seagate and OpenDrives is a natural extension of the modular, flexible direction we’ve been moving in,” said James DiVito, VP, products and solutions, OpenDrives. “It gives our partners and our customers more choice when they need to scale more cost effectively. We’re not locking anyone into a single approach; we’re enabling flexibility and supporting long-term growth strategies. It’s another step toward realizing OpenDrives’ goal of true hardware agnosticism.“

The software-defined design of OpenDrives combined with high-capacity drives and enclosures creates a performance-optimized platform that aligns with modern data infrastructure strategies, making it easier, more efficient, and more cost effective to scale. With the Atlas composable software feature bundles, Atlas professional and Atlas customers avoid additional licensing fees when expanding storage capacity. They can add hardware as needed, avoiding overprovisioning and minimizing disruption.

This also opens an easy path for channel partners and integrators to bundle OpenDrives’ Atlas storage and management platform with familiar, reliable hardware options from Seagate.

In addition, this reinforces OpenDrives’ quest to give customers more control over how they build, buy, operate, and grow their storage infrastructure, supporting flexible procurement models, vendor choice, and cost-efficient scale across on-premises and hybrid environments.