Seagate Nytro Application Acceleration Cards Selected by Rackspace for OnMetal Cloud Server Solutions
October 21 2014 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Single-Tenant Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Utilizes Nytro to Deliver Increased I/O Compute Performance
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX), a world leader in storage
solutions, today announced that its Nytro® family of PCIe-based
flash acceleration cards have been selected by Rackspace (NYSE:RAX)
for use with its new OnMetal™ family of cloud server solutions. As
a leader in the managed cloud space and founder of OpenStack,
Rackspace has adopted the use of Seagate Nytro solutions to enable
increased I/O performance and cost efficiency for the growing
demands of cloud infrastructure.
Seagate Nytro family of PCIe-based flash
acceleration cards (Photo: Business Wire)
“With storage demands growing at a record pace, Rackspace is
tasked with serving hundreds of thousands of customers and finding
new ways to deliver the best-fit infrastructure for their IT
needs,” said Manish Muthal, vice president of marketing, planning,
architecture, PCIe flash solutions, Seagate. “By leveraging the
Nytro family, OnMetal Cloud Servers will provide performance levels
that are well-suited for a variety of platforms that demand
performance optimization.”
OnMetal Cloud Servers are single-tenant, bare-metal servers that
customers can instantly provision via the OpenStack API and easily
integrates with existing cloud infrastructure.
“Our OnMetal cloud servers were created to provide our customers
with a solution that can deliver the agility of a multi-tenant
public cloud while keeping the simplicity, consistent performance,
and predictable cost of single-tenant servers,” said Paul Querna,
director of corporate strategy and development at Rackspace. “By
using the Nytro family of PCIe acceleration solutions in the
design, Rackspace OnMetal servers can more easily meet the needs
for simplicity at scale, and with a high ratio of performance to
cost.”
The comprehensive Nytro product portfolio of flash accelerator
cards combines PCIe flash technology with intelligent management
software. Nytro flash cards are designed to deliver high
performance, reduced latency and a low CPU burden for the most
demanding database applications and I/O-intensive workloads.
For more information on the Seagate Nytro product portfolio
please visit http://seagate.com/www/nytro.
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Seagate TechnologyJon Piazza,
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