October 22, 2013
Today, Seagate has announced the availability of their Kinetic Open Storage platform, which simplifies data management, improves performance and scalability, all while lowering expenses. This fundamentally new architecture reduces costs by allowing applications to communicate directly with the storage system, eliminating the acquisition, deployment, and support costs of hyperscale storage infrastructures.
Riak has partnered with Seagate to help them develop this platform to provide interoperability and testing with Riak. Now, with the release of this platform, we want to make it easier for developers to test the Kinetic Open Storage platform with Riak. We have just released an alpha version of our eKinetic driver, which enables an Erlang-based high-performance socket connection to the drive. We have also released software to improve Riak backend compatibility by mapping a Riak backend to the drive library. Both are available for download https://github.com/basho-labs/riak_kinetic.
Not only does deploying Riak on this platform drastically simplify the management of data through a straightforward socket-based network interface, this simplification also increases I/O efficiency by removing bottlenecks and optimizing cluster management, data replication, migration, and active multi-datacenter performance. Additionally, it is expected that users will realize up to a 50% decrease in the Total Cost of Operations through simplified operations alone. Users can also maximize storage density through reduced power and cooling costs and build out cloud datacenters for even more savings.
Seagate Principal Technologist, James Hughes, will be speaking about the Kinetic Open Storage platform and Riak at RICON, Riak’s distributed systems conference. His talk, “Device Based Innovation to Enable Scale-Out Storage” will take place on October 29th at 12pm in Track Two. Seagate is also a sponsor of RICON.
For more information on Seagate’s Kinetic Open Storage platform, check out their full release. Additional information on the Riak/Seagate partnership can also be found here.
