NetAPP proposed File service for OpenStack

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced it has submitted a prototype and proposal for a file share service capability for consideration by the OpenStack Foundation Technical Committee and community at large. The proposal will be a topic for discussion for inclusion in the Havana release this week at the OpenStack Summit (April 15–18) in Portland, Oregon.

 

Presently, OpenStack does not offer native management support for file-based storage systems, and NetApp is proposing adding a "file share service" that is broad enough to address a range of file system types, either as an extension to the existing Cinder project (in its current form referred to as OpenStack block storage) or implemented as a separate project. The goal of this integration is to extend access to applications written for file-based storage without the need for a separate management interface. To help inform the discussion, NetApp has designed and developed a prototype, which includes code contributions and extended APIs, as well as both a reference and a back-end implementation specific to NetApp®. The prototype is available as a recent submission to OpenStack’s Cinder project.

 

http://openstacksummitapril2013.sched.org/

http://www.slideshare.net/enovance/open-stack-in-action-netapp-integration-with-openstack

 

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