OpenStack Manila is the file level access method in development by the open source cloud platform. What is it, how does it work and when will it be ready?

Snapshots and container storage support are among recently added functionality in the open source private cloud platform, but vendor driver support for OpenStack is not universal.

The ascent of OpenStack, the open source framework for private and public clouds, has been nothing short of meteoric from its beginnings in 2010. The platform has become a genuine phenomenon with more ...

The ascent of OpenStack, the open source framework for private and public clouds, has been nothing short of meteoric from its beginnings in 2010. The platform has become a genuine phenomenon with more ...

Enterprise storage has been an exclusive, niche industry for many years, however new approaches to cloud-based storage is turning this old model on its head.

Red Hat, a leader in the OpenStack Manila scale-out shared file system, said it has integrated Manila APIs into Red Hat Gluster Storage to provide file-based services in OpenStack environments.

Many OpenStack users have found that the next generation Ceph software-defined storage platform can complement their cloud deployments. Ceph is a distributed object store and file system that has been ...

Storage vendors have been rolling out a host of new hardware and software aimed at helping channel partners build a better cloud based on the OpenStack architecture.

The storage architecture for Symphony is similar to other hyperconverged storage, like that from Nutanix, which also created its own distributed file system from scratch and which runs within and ...

San Francisco-based SwiftStack has announced the general availability of its private cloud storage product. The company’s software-defined storage (SDS) solution is based on the OpenStack Swift ...

Pure Storage has joined the OpenStack Foundation as a corporate sponsor and committer, and announced two pieces of software that improve the integration between FlashArray and OpenStack. OpenStack ...