Dell EMC Joins Open Source OpenSDS Project

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, welcomed Dell EMC to the OpenSDS Project.

The OpenSDS community is forming to address software-defined storage integration challenges with the goal of driving enterprise adoption of open standards.

As part of its support for the open source project, Dell EMC is also contributing its first project to OpenSDS, the CoprHD SouthBound SDK (SB SDK), to help promote storage interoperability and compatibility. The SB SDK allows developers to build drivers and other tools with the assurance that they will be compatible with a variety of enterprise storage products.

The OpenSDS Project is comprised of storage users and vendors, including Fujitsu Ltd, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, Oregon State University and Vodafone Group Plc. The project will also seek to collaborate with other upstream open source communities such as Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Docker, Inc., OpenStack Foundation and Open Container Initiative.

“Dell EMC is a welcome addition to the OpenSDS Project and we look forward to its input,” said Cameron Bahar, SVP and global CTO of storage, Huawei. “We invite other vendors and enterprise customers to follow Dell EMC’s lead, and to join us in creating an open storage controller solution across cloud, containerized, virtualized and other environments, and make storage-as-a-service a reality.“

“As the first storage vendor to open source a software-defined storage controller, we’re very excited to join OpenSDS,” said John Mark Walker, director of product management, Dell EMC. “We look forward to collaborating with customers, partners and other vendors to create open source tools and standards for storage interoperability.“

The OpenSDS technical community hosts discussions on a dedicated mailing list.