The OpenSDS Project is an open-source community addressing software-defined storage integration challenges. The aim is to drive enterprise adoption of open standards. Open-source technology is our primary focus. Therefore, we’re delighted to be a member of OpenSDS.
The Linux Foundation host the OpenSDS Project. It comprises storage users and vendors. Most notably, Dell EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Huawei, IBM, Western Digital, Vodafone, NTT Communications, Toyota ITC, Yahoo! Japan, and Oregon State University. The project seeks to collaborate with other upstream open-source communities. These include Cloud Native Computing Foundation and OpenStack, and industry organizations, such as Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). LINBIT® contribution to OpenSDS will offer seamless integration of DRBD® remote data replication in OpenSDS.
The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open-source community, it solves the hardest technology problems by creating the most significant shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training, and events to scale any open-source project. As a result, it delivers an economic impact not achievable by any one company.
The OpenSDS Project: Technical Steering Committee
“Being responsible for mission-critical applications, the LINBIT community has always defined the frontline of the open source momentum in the enterprise,” said Steven Tan, chair of the OpenSDS Technical Steering Committee and VP and CTO Cloud Storage Solutions at Huawei. “We welcome LINBIT to the OpenSDS Project, and so look forward to offering its trusted Linux technologies to the OpenSDS community”
“Cloud and container technologies present new challenges for efficient storage management, and so does digital transformation and the increasing value of data assets,” said Philipp Reisner, CEO of LINBIT. “LINBIT is ideally positioned to address these challenges, building on its decades of experience with always-on, always-available technologies and leveraging the advanced development work that we are doing with erasure coding, highly available message queuing (HA-MQ), and geo-clustering via highly available network address lookup (HA-DNS).”
LINSTOR: A Major Addition for LINBIT
Additionally, in a related announcement, LINBIT launched the public beta release of LINSTOR®. This is a major new addition to its SDS product portfolio for the growing containerized applications space. With container-native block storage, LINSTOR fills a significant gap in the market to provide data persistence for elastic applications. It also includes support for Kubernetes and OpenShift environments.
The OpenSDS technical community hosts discussions on a dedicated mailing list: [email protected]. So for more information about OpenSDS, please email [email protected].
