Seagate Lyve Drive Mobile System: Manage enterprise, cloud, and edge data growth
Today at CES 2020, Seagate introduced a modular storage solution to manage the surge of enterprise, cloud, and edge data. The Seagate Lyve Drive Mobile System is a portfolio of simple, secure, and efficient data management solutions built to activate the datasphere.
Powered by IT 4.0—the fourth wave of industrial revolution within IT—where connected homes, connected cities, AI-powered factories, autonomous vehicles, and media and entertainment content drive explosive data growth, the global datasphere is forecasted to grow from 41 zettabytes in 2019 to 175 zettabytes by 2025, according to IDC. Nearly 30% of that data will need real-time processing. Seagate’s Lyve Drive system enables efficient and cost effective movement of this data between enterprise, cloud, and the edge.
“Data empowers those who can harness and activate it,” said Jeff Fochtman, vice president of marketing for Seagate. “However, today’s data management tools are too costly and inefficient for businesses to tap into data’s full value. Lyve Drive is Seagate’s first step toward a unified data experience, which will turn data’s possibilities into tangible growth for the world’s most critical industries.”
Seagate Lyve Drive Mobile System
Developed to address the growing need to move massive amounts of data from endpoints to edge to core, Seagate’s Lyve Drive Mobile System is a collection of modular storage solutions built to help businesses be more efficient and grow. During CES, Seagate will showcase the system and several key product concepts in the line including:
Lyve Drive Cards and Lyve Drive Card Reader – High capacity, high-performance 1TB CFexpress cards and a portable card reader for ingesting endpoint data sources.
Lyve Drive Shuttle – An autonomous data storage and transport solution for easy ingestion from direct-attached, network-attached, and other external storage devices. It offers up to 16TB of capacity depending on HDD or SSD configuration, and an e-ink touchscreen display to copy files directly without a PC.
Lyve Drive Mobile Array – A sealed, high-performance, 6-bay array that is ruggedized and easy to transport. The mobile array displayed at CES will feature 6 of Seagate’s 18TB Exos HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording) hard drives for a total capacity of 108TB.
Lyve Drive Modular Array – A high-performance 4-bay array with flexible configuration so businesses can build what they need for a particular workflow. The high-capacity modular array displayed at CES will include Seagate’s Exos 2X14 enterprise hard drive, which is the first to integrate Seagate’s groundbreaking MACH.2 multi-actuator technology.
Lyve Drive Rackmount Receiver – A high-performance datacenter 4U rackmount ingestion hub that accepts two Lyve Drive arrays for high-speed data transfer directly into a data center fabric without the need of cables.