Defining The Software-Defined Technology Market

Software-defined storage is driving new requirements in hardware and opening up new opportunities for innovation. HGST is building on decades of drive quality and reliability with new drive technology that connects over Ethernet. In this session, HGST will cover how CPU and memory resources residing on these storage devices can be leveraged to run storage services as close to the data as possible. The technology will be demonstrated using open software like Ceph and Swift, which run in the standard Linux environment without modification. Additionally, HGST will share its SDK and thoughts around taking advantage of this new architecture.

Learning Objectives

The new software defined disk drive solution from HGST
This will be the first time enterprises can run distributed storage/applications directly onto storage media for next generation big data, analytics and research
How CPU and memory resources residing on these storage devices can be leveraged to run storage services as close to the data as possible