10.18.2012

Storage drivers take advantage of OpenStack


Avishay Traeger
Editor's note: This blog entry was co-authored by Avishay Traeger and Ronen Kat, storage researchers at IBM Research - Haifa.

Started two years ago by Rackspace and NASA, the OpenStack Foundation was envisioned as an open and common code base for businesses to build public and private cloud infrastructure – while sharing common approaches to management services and APIs.

Ronen Kat
In short, OpenStack is free open source software for cloud infrastructure and management. It’s growing fast with more than 150 member companies, worldwide. IBM joined the foundation in April 2012, seeing the foundation’s platform as an important way to help clients use the cloud, as well as promote a ubiquitous Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud platform for public and private clouds.

What about Nova-volume and Cinder, those storage drivers from Research?

The Nova-volume and Cinder drivers connect IBM storage products to OpenStack

IBM researchers in Haifa, Israel developed drivers that connect new IBM storage devices to the cloud – taking advantage of OpenStack automated provisioning, improved management, and more efficient compression.
The storage in OpenStack cloud environments can be provisioned using a self-service model that provides storage on an as-needed basis. Using this model, users only get and pay for what they really need, and the cloud provider does not have a situation where cloud storage space is wasted due to over-provisioning.

The Nova-volume and Cinder drivers let those with IBM storage products from the Storwize and SVC family take advantage of OpenStack's simplified cloud deployments and automated storage provisioning.

Connection is just the first step in using the new OpenStack platform. Our vision goes beyond features like automated storage tiering with IBM Easy Tier, Real-time Compression, and space-efficient storage in our products. The next steps will include advanced features, such as the enablement of differentiated types of capabilities through quality of service (QoS).

at

6 comments:

  1. gurjeetOctober 19, 2012 at 3:35 AM

    I am totally agree with your opinion.this blog post is very encouraging to people who want to know these topics.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Sildenafil CitrateOctober 19, 2012 at 6:30 AM

    The storage in OpenStack cloud environments can be provisioned using a self-service model that provides storage on an as-needed basis. I Agree with your points.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Jack MorrisOctober 22, 2012 at 6:08 AM

    The Nova-volume and Cinder drivers let those with IBM storage products from the Storwize and SVC family take advantage of OpenStack's simplified cloud deployments and automated storage provisioning.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Anthony RodriguezOctober 23, 2012 at 2:22 AM

    Where cloud storage space is wasted due to over-provisioning.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Bryan FordOctober 23, 2012 at 2:30 AM

    The Nova-volume and Cinder drivers let those with IBM storage products from the Storwize and SVC family take advantage of OpenStack's simplified cloud deployments and automated storage provisioning.

    ReplyDelete
  6. UnknownSeptember 24, 2013 at 3:39 AM

    This storage option is a great idea. I have a cloud storage account and I don’t even use half of the capacity of the smallest package the service offers. It’s a total waste of money. I think I’ll look into switching to OpenStack soon. I believe this is what makes the cost a bit high. Why pay for space you’ll never use when someone else needs it?

    ReplyDelete