Press Release
Support for Seagate Technology, LLC disk drives added as a scale-up option
Los Angeles, CA – April 3, 2025 – OpenDrives, Inc., a leading provider of software-defined data storage and services solutions, today announced that it has expanded certified hardware options to include the Seagate Exos E JBOD expansion enclosures from Seagate Technology, LLC, a global mass-capacity data storage leader. This development enables OpenDrives customers to take advantage of an additional scale-up option for its Atlas data storage and management platform, combining performance and agility, and providing even more choice when building flexible, economical, data environments.
Effective immediately, Seagate Technology, LLC and OpenDrives’ systems integrators can offer combinations of Atlas-based compute modules with the Seagate Exos E JBOD expansion enclosures for raw capacity across OpenDrives’ certified hardware architectures.
“This combination from Seagate and OpenDrives is a natural extension of the modular, flexible direction we’ve been moving in,” said James DiVito, Vice President, Products & Solutions at OpenDrives. “It gives our partners and our customers more choice when they need to scale more cost effectively. We’re not locking anyone into a single approach; we’re enabling flexibility and supporting long-term growth strategies. It’s another step toward realizing OpenDrives’ goal of true hardware agnosticism.”
The software-defined design of OpenDrives combined with high-capacity drives and enclosures creates a performance-optimized platform that aligns with modern data infrastructure strategies, making it easier, more efficient, and more cost effective to scale. With the Atlas composable software feature bundles, Atlas Professional and Atlas Comprehensive, customers avoid additional licensing fees when expanding storage capacity. They can seamlessly add hardware as needed, avoiding overprovisioning and minimizing disruption.
This also opens an easy path for channel partners and integrators to bundle OpenDrives’ Atlas data storage and management platform with familiar, reliable hardware options from Seagate.
In addition, this reinforces OpenDrives’ quest to give customers more control over how they build, buy, operate, and grow their storage infrastructure, supporting flexible procurement models, vendor choice, and cost-efficient scale across on-premises and hybrid environments.
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About OpenDrives
OpenDrives, Inc. delivers high-performance, economically scalable, and easy-to-use data storage and services solutions—powered by the company’s software-defined platform Atlas—purpose-built to optimize high-bandwidth, low-latency media workflows. Since 2011 OpenDrives has empowered content creators and creatives with seamless, fast, shared data access, collaboration, and management capabilities that help to break down data barriers and accelerate creativity and innovation. Thanks to world-class support, composable feature bundles that promise performance and cost predictability, and flexible deployment options across on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments, OpenDrives helps businesses effectively transform data and content into revenue. OpenDrives is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. To learn more about OpenDrives, visit www.opendrives.com.
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