"According to Seagate’s press release, the Alkemi intelligent storage platform takes a different approach. Where Apple’s Fusion Drives used tiering managed by macOS, Alkemi manages the storage pool directly from the enclosure."

Soooooo... it's gonna be like the old days of Drobo, where a little VXworks box did all the heavy lifting of BeyondRAID and transparently exposed it as a big ol' block device to your OS? Good times.