Keeper Technology and Seagate Government Solutions Form Strategic Partnership to Help Customers Solve Challenges in Data Storage Performance and Security

ASHBURN, Va. and HERNDON, Va., March 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Keeper Technology, a leading provider of integrated data management solutions and Seagate Government Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology, a world leader in data storage solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to provide robust Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions for the federal government and commercial sectors.

The two companies are undertaking this new partnership to create high-performance, multi-petabyte and secure storage solutions. The full SDS platform is built on Seagate's Common Criteria, BAA/TAA-compliant FIPS 140-2 disk drives and enclosures and is underpinned by Keeper Technology's turnkey Ceph-based appliance, keeperSAFE^®. The solution meets NIST 800-88 and FIPS 140-2 requirements for protecting sensitive information. With support for NAS, block, and object-based storage, government and commercial enterprises are able to efficiently and automatically manage their data.

By combining Seagate's technology with keeperSAFE, the solution provides a flexible, cloud-scale infrastructure enabling enterprises to scale across physical, virtual and cloud resources to efficiently and cost-effectively manage exponential data growth.

"Seagate Government Solutions is pleased to partner with Keeper Technology," said Mike Moritzkat, CEO and Managing Director, Seagate Government Solutions. "The combination of their deep expertise as a leading provider of Ceph-based solutions with Seagate's TAA, CC and FIPS certified hardware, offers a unified, secure, turnkey solution that ensures compliance with increasingly-stringent data and security regulations."

"Our team continuously seeks to integrate enterprise-level data storage solutions featuring cutting-edge technologies from vendors like Seagate," said Dave Donald, Founder and President of Keeper Technology. "This collaboration will be an exciting next step for Keeper Technology as we broaden our portfolio and expand our ability to create scalable and resilient software solutions for the federal and commercial markets."

• Keeper Technology will be available to discuss the joint solution and the benefits it will bring to M&E organizations near the Seagate booth located in the South Hall (Lower) - SL8511 at NAB in Las Vegas from April 6-9.
• Seagate Government Solutions and Keeper Technology will be hosting a whisper suite at NAB. To schedule a meeting with the team, contact: [email protected].  

About Keeper Technology
Keeper Technology has been delivering state-of-the-art, integrated data storage solutions for more than a dozen years to government and private sector clients who need enterprise-class, hyper-converged, and tightly integrated data storage and data management solutions. The Keeper team has established enduring relationships as a value-added reseller of products from Violin Systems and Quantum Corporation. Keeper Technology's turnkey data storage appliance, KeeperSAFE™ is an open source, software-based storage platform that scales across physical, virtual, and cloud resources without limits.

To learn more about Keeper Technology, visit: www.keepertech.com and follow on LinkedIn.

About Seagate Government Solutions
Seagate Government Solutions is a U.S.-based business focused on the federal government's big data, scale-out storage, and security needs. Seagate Government Solutions will draw from Seagate's purpose-engineered storage and security storage technology – encompassing a robust supply chain, from components and storage devices to file systems – to deliver the levels of security, performance, efficiency, complexity reduction and risk mitigation especially needed in this space. Seagate's technology adheres to strict government mandates while spearheading the way for advancements in the field of security – from unclassified to top secret and beyond.

To Learn more about Seagate Government Solutions, visit: www.seagategov.com.

SOURCE Keeper Technology