Seagate Technology today announced it has started delivering cloud systems and solutions for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), “do-it-yourself (DIY)” and other organisations, thereby strengthening its position in the market.
Industry research firm IDC estimates that the overall volume of digital bits created, replicated and consumed across the United Sates alone will hit 44 zettabytes by 2020. That represents a doubling of data volume every two years, said Jamie Lerner, President of Cloud Systems & Solutions at Seagate. “Organisations are looking for cost effective ways to harness data and create actionable information. Seagate is bringing an open approach to the Intelligent Information Infrastructure program. We are applying our experience working with cloud service providers worldwide to create systems and solutions that manage next generation workloads with the scale, performance and economy aligned to business needs.’’
Much of the data growth is in unstructured data. Industry analyst from IDC estimate that in 2015, as far as enterprise disk storage systems are concerned, unstructured data will surpass structured data in terms of both capacity shipped and customer revenue.
In a release issued by the company, Seagate also announced new cloud systems and solutions products and product updates.