Seagate expands its Lyve Cloud Object Storage offering with new regions

Seagate Technology has expanded its Lyve Cloud Object Storage offering and added new regions in Europe and Japan. Melyssa Banda, VP of enterprise systems and solutions at Seagate said that the new features and expanded regional coverage will help customers build out their regional presence and scale cloud-native AI and machine learning workloads.

Vincent Oostlander, Seagate’s director of EMEA solution sales, said that all of the new features have been developed in consultation with the company’s customers. “Moving data is very expensive, so that was initially our focus,” he said. “Object retention is also part of that. In some cases, the flexibility is not there, and what we want to offer is full cost transparency, and that includes meaning you can always move your data whenever you feel like it or you need to.”

“Customers that also have locations in Europe [have said] they would love to have our support and services [in the EU] as well,” Oostlander explains. Seagate has chosen to operate the region out of Frankfurt, Germany because most European countries are happy to comply with German data protection legislation.