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Seagate forms federal biz unit to latch onto the gov cash faucet

Wants to flog ClusterStor gear to US agencies

Seagate has formed a Federal business unit to help shift its acquired Xyratex ClusterStor HPC arrays to Fed buyers.

Seagate Government Solutions (SGS) will focus on the federal government’s big data, high performance computing (HPC), and security needs. It’s presided over by Deb Oliver, formerly with Lockheed Martin and Vencore with 30-plus years of federal government experience.

She was Vencore's COO, Vencore formerly being known as The SI Organisation, an exec carve-out from Lockheed Martin.

SGS' chairman is Paul Kaminsky, previously US under secretary of defense for acquisition and Technology, and chairman and CEO of consulting company Technovation. Guess he has good contacts and know-how in fed government circles

The lead product is Seagate’s ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance (SDA), which Seagate boasts is “the industry’s first secure scale-out parallel file system solution,” and supports tens of thousands of clients “with different classifications to connect to a single-server storage environment, only allowing access to those who should have it.”

The product has the means to implement “Mandatory Access Control, explicit audit logging and tracking, and encryption and support capabilities to enforce access control privileges.”

Seagate is getting stuck into its Multilevel Security (MLS) Ecosystem, a joint collaborative effort by many organisations to look at and improve data security for the federal government; a marketing effort to big up its federal security credentials.

Other companies involved are:

  • Lockheed Martin
  • SGI
  • Cray
  • Bay Microsystems – Global High-Performance Fabric Extension
  • Mellanox
  • Altair – PBS Professional: Job Scheduling and Management
  • Crunchy – Open Source Crunchy MLS PostgreSQL extends PostgreSQL with Multilevel Security Support
  • Splunk – Universal Machine Data Platform

Check out a Seagate MLS blog here. We’ll note that other disk array suppliers in roughly the same area, such as DDN with its SFA14K and NetApp with its E-Series, are not represented.

Seagate Government Solutions Group will be exhibiting at the Supercomputing 2015 show November 16-19 in Austin, Texas, at booth 473. ®

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