Toshiba today announced at Openstack Summit 2015 new technologies with large capacity HDD, high performance SSD, gigabit Ethernet and compute-for-storage in a single 3.5-inch form factor. One of Toshiba's key value technologies is a multi-device storage solution that integrates Ethernet, solid state drive (SSD) for low latency, large capacity hard disk drive (HDD) for higher throughput, 64-bit compute, and an open source Linux platform for running next generation software-defined storage applications on an industry standard 3.5-inch form factor. This new technology is intended to help the enterprise meet its growing data storage needs by enabling a rich set of scale-out object storage features that deliver on both capital expenditures and operating expenses reductions, while providing performance on par with HDD-based primary storage.

The other technology solution Toshiba announced today is an Ethernet based HDD-only version primarily optimized for the emerging shingled magnetic recording (SMR) media interface. This large capacity key value technology is optimized for archival and cold storage applications.

Enabled with scale-out storage software such as Ceph, Toshiba's object storage drives are suited for enterprise primary storage, unstructured data, information governance, analytical data, and for archival and cold storage.

"These new technologies demonstrate Toshiba's commitment and leadership in emerging key value-based object storage drive markets. By approaching this market holistically with two different technologies, Toshiba is addressing both the high performance workloads and large capacity workloads," said Tar Thirumalai, director of market development at Toshiba Storage Products Business Unit. "As the storage industry evolves beyond storage management to data management, it is important to expand our storage solutions offering to include key value object-based data access methods."