Seagate Simplifies High-Capacity Storage Scaling for AI and Cloud Infrastructure
Key Highlights
- ➤Seagate Mozaic HAMR + SMR drives become first approved SMR drives for Broadcom’s HBA
- ➤Microsoft Azure qualifies Broadcom HBA with Seagate HAMR + SMR technology
- ➤Qualification supports deploying and managing high-capacity hard-drive fleets at hyperscale
- ➤Seagate says Mozaic HAMR + SMR increases storage density for data-intensive workloads
Expert Statements
Jason Feist, Senior Vice President, Cloud Business at Seagate
“High-capacity storage innovation delivers the greatest value when customers put that capacity to work efficiently”
Jason Feist, Senior Vice President, Cloud Business at Seagate
“By pairing Seagate HAMR + SMR storage technology with Broadcom’s connectivity infrastructure, we’re helping make high-capacity SMR storage more accessible and easier to deploy as AI and cloud data demands grow.”
Jas Tremblay, Vice President and General Manager Data Center Solutions Group at Broadcom
“Expanding HBA support for Seagate SMR technology gives more customers a straightforward path to integrate and manage high-capacity hard drive fleets”
Jas Tremblay, Vice President and General Manager Data Center Solutions Group at Broadcom
“It’s an important step toward making HAMR + SMR storage easier to implement across large-scale environments as storage requirements continue to grow.”
Pablo Ziperovich, General Manager, Azure Memory and Storage Center of Excellence at Microsoft
“At hyperscale, storage infrastructure has to meet demanding requirements for interoperability, manageability and infrastructure efficiency at scale.”
Pablo Ziperovich, General Manager, Azure Memory and Storage Center of Excellence at Microsoft
“Microsoft Azure’s joint validation and qualification of Seagate and Broadcom’s SMR configuration demonstrates how these technologies can work together across large data center deployments, enabling greater storage density at a similar cost and power envelope.”
Seagate Simplifies High-Capacity Storage Scaling for AI and Cloud Infrastructure
New interoperability milestone simplifies high-capacity storage expansion, with Microsoft Azure providing a hyperscale qualification proof point
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