But for how much longer?
They've got the tech, but they're ditching the engineers.
2 years max.
Seagate's ClusterStor arrays do have a future, despite the company's PR side refusing to answer a direct question about them. After Seagate spokespeople declined to comment on the matter, Ken Claffey, veep and general manager of the company's SSG unit got in touch. He had this to say about the Havant factory closure in the UK …
Looking at the entire Top500 list for the largest computing sites on the globe, DDN is the preferred storage for an increasing number (70%) of the named sites on the list published in June 2016.
http://www.ddn.com/press-releases/ddn-increases-top500-hpc-leadership-unprecedented-70-percent-global-supercomputing-centers/
Looking at just the Top 10, many of the sites have multiple storage vendors to accomplish their needs in different parts of their workflow. DDN provides storage to 7 of the current top 10. HPC is complex and needs different technologies for work, scratch, archive, cache, etc. DDN's broad portfolio is leveraged throughout all of these areas in the end to end workflow.
The HPC Top 500 shows massive compute sites from Super Computing to Manufacturing to Biotechnology research. No longer is HPC leadership just about the largest Super Computing research institutes, it is about delivering the technology needed to data intensive users in a wide variety of global markets and use cases.