Zoned Storage is an open, standards-based initiative to enable data centres to scale efficiently for the zettabyte storage capacity era.

Higher Capacities, Lower TCO & Improved QoS

Conquer massive data growth with Zoned Storage

Data volumes created by enterprises, machines, and consumer-generated content continue to drive demand for data centre storage capacities at petabyte, exabyte and even zettabyte scale. Today, large scale data infrastructure already uses tens of thousands of SSDs and HDDs. Managing the extreme scale of data in a cost-effective manner is quickly becoming a requirement.

Zoned Storage is an open, standards-based initiative to enable data centres to scale efficiently for the zettabyte storage capacity era. There are two technologies behind Zoned Storage, Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) in HDDs and Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) in SSDs. With a unified software framework, data can be intelligently placed on both SMR HDDs and ZNS SSDs to increase storage capacity, lower TCO and improve QoS. With Zoned Storage, data centre and cloud providers can more cost-effectively scale storage for the zettabyte age.