SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SwiftStack, a technology innovator of private cloud storage for modern applications, today announced its development contributions to the OpenStack® Object Storage ...

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 ...

SwiftStack, developer of a commercial version of the open-source Swift object storage technology, on Tuesday introduced SwiftStack 4.0, the latest iteration of its platform featuring integrated load ...

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, ...

Gluster, a provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions, has introduced the Gluster Connector for OpenStack, which provides scalable and highly-available VM storage functionality for OpenStack ...

Internap is offering a new public cloud storage service that it built using software from OpenStack, the open-source cloud software project kicked off last year by Rackspace and NASA. The move is ...

Object storage rose to fame as the go-to solution for cloud storage. However, it has been steadily making in-roads into the enterprise as more vendors offer on-premises storage systems that ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

Rackspace officially released the first sets of code for its open-source cloud computing platform, OpenStack, on Thursday, just three months after the project's inception. Dubbed "Austin," the release ...

Object storage is not a new concept, but this type of storage architecture is beginning to garner more attention from large organisations as they grapple with the difficulties of managing increasingly ...

“Slow, cheap and deep – object storage has that reputation,” says Steven Hill, senior analyst for storage technologies at 451 Research. “In part because that’s all that was expected of it at the time.

IT shops used to buy SANs for block storage, NAS for file storage and cloud gateways for object storage. Now they can buy software-defined storage products that support all block, file and object ...