Open Source at Seagate

Fulfilling the promises of the data revolution requires open and global innovation. Seagate is teaming up with its partners in the global community to explore the science of storage and the future of data. From partnering with research consortia to develop new open technologies, to contributing back into essential open-source projects, and to releasing Seagate-developed tools to the global community, Seagate is committed to an open future.

With its partners in the EU and globally, CORTX is a research project Seagate has undertaken into making distributed object storage efficient, economical, and effective at scale. With an emphasis on HPC and high HDD-utilization, CORTX is an exploration of adapting object storage to meet the demands of the next generation of data.

openSeaChest is a collection of comprehensive, easy-to-use command line diagnostic tools and programming libraries for storage devices that help you quickly determine the health and status of your drives.

Seagate partners and collaborates with the Open Compute Project, CROSS, The Linux Foundation, RISC-V, and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Seagate also contributes to OpenTitan, a project dedicated to the creation of a transparent, high-quality reference design for Root of Trust chips, and to the IO-SEA project exploring novel data management and storage platforms for exascale computing.

Seagate's open-source projects, including CORTX and openSeaChest, are available on GitHub at github.com/Seagate. BlueAlly, an authorized Seagate reseller, can help your organization pair these open initiatives with the right Seagate storage hardware.