In a move which underscores an expansion of the storage solution and cloud storage capabilities of storage vendor Seagate Technology, the company has recently announced a new Cloud Systems and Solutions Group which will be responsible for building solutions for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

With Seagate having expanded its storage solution and cloud storage capabilities with new clustered systems, hard drives, flash acceleration cards and EVault cloud appliances, David Flesh - VP of marketing for the company's newly formed Cloud Systems and Solutions Group - said that the new solutions will help the company manage its cloud storage business in a better way.

Flesh said that the new solutions essentially mark Seagate's response to the storage industry to increasingly "disaggregate" the software from the hardware; quite similar to the manner in which virtualization broke the tie between computing and the underlying hardware.

According to the information shared by Flesh, Seagate's Cloud Systems and Solutions Group is taking the experience it has gained from its association with cloud services providers with new approaches to storage, including software-defined storage as well as open storage, and ensuring their application to its latest solutions.

Meanwhile, with regard to building solutions for OEMs, Seagate said that, with its reported sales of 2 million drives and 17,000 petabytes sold, the company's open Intelligent Information Infrastructure program caters to OEMs, and offers hard drives, SSDs and hybrid data enclosures and embedded server modules.