Storage is one of the key building blocks of clouds, and so it was no surprise that storage technology was a key part of the recent OpenStack Summit. Several vendors used the conference to show a ...

The OpenStack platform is an open-source collaboration to develop a private cloud ecosystem, delivering IT services at web scale. OpenStack is divided into a number of discrete projects, each with a ...

HONG KONG, CHINA--(Marketwired - Nov 4, 2013) - OpenStack Summit -- SolidFire, the leader in all-SSD storage systems designed for next generation data centers, today announced expanded integration ...

Rackspace has relinquished the reigns of the OpenStack code to an independent foundation and has made significant progress on its own commercial plans. At OpenStack Summit Wednesday, one Rackspace ...

Building a cloud without storage is like building a house without closets, cupboards, cabinets, or garage space. In each instance, the finished product might elicit oohs and aahs from the outside, but ...

It’s been almost eight years since the first release of OpenStack and the promise of a platform that would deliver a new era in open source private cloud. In that time, we’ve seen OpenStack’s star ...

While innovators in the HPC and hyperscale arenas usually have the talent and often have the desire to get into the code for the tools that they use to create their infrastructure, most enterprises ...

The lofty world of enterprise storage has been an exclusive, niche industry for many years. Traditional solutions to corporate data management and protection typically involved purchasing large, ...

At the time I got into the data storage industry, I was working with and developing RAID and JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) controllers for 2 Gbit Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SAN). This was a ...