Using Storage APIs and Creating the Kinetic Cloud
December 30, 2014
Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.
Recently, Seagate announced a revolutionary way applications are going to communicate with their storage and resource back-end. According to Rocky Pimentel, Seagate executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer, “With the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform, our internal R&D teams have designed an unique, first-of-its-kind storage architecture to enable cheaper, more scalable object storage solutions that free up IT professionals from having to invest in hardware and software they don’t need, while empowering them with the most innovative storage technology available.
This technology optimizes storage solutions for a new era of cloud storage systems, while drastically reducing overall costs.” So what does this all really mean? Well, the reality here is that infrastructure, applications, and the cloud are becoming a lot more intelligent. Just like the modern hypervisor for virtualization, we are trying to eliminate extra resources hops between our workloads and the resources that they utilize…
Optimizing that communication – now at an application and cloud layer – actually creates quite a few new types of benefits for your organizations…
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