Seagate targets HPC opportunity through IBM and HP partnerships
 
Seagate is looking to extend its storage appliances into more high-performance computing (HPC) deployments by extending its partnerships with IBM and Hewlett-Packard as it tries to grab greater marketshare.
 
At the International Supercomputing Conference, hardware vendors are courting enterprises that increasingly need HPC to crunch big data and analytics workloads. HPC has traditionally been the domain of governments and academics.
 
Seagate said it will integrate IBM's Spectrum Scale storage software with its ClusterStor HPC storage. The move will allow Seagate to offer a software defined storage appliance for HPC workloads such as simulations, forecasting and research.
 
HP will resell Seagate’s ClusterStor 1500 and 9000 scale-out storage appliances with its HPC wares. Seagate's gear will ride shotgun with HP's Apollo portfolio of hardware and services.