Sans Digital: Scala Storage Supports KVM and OpenStack Cinder Ready Driver

Scala Storage from Sans Digital, Inc., a scalable storage system designed for high concurrency computing and big data applications, announces support for OpenStack Cinder ready driver to support cloud environments.

The support for OpenStack and KVM allows deployment of VMs with Scala Storage Systems. OpenStack is an open source cloud software that is used in public and private cloud environments.

Scala Storage developed a Cinder driver that supports OpenStack, offering reliability and features rich, block-level data transfer. The features of Scala Storage systems can be integrated with OpenStack environments such as linear performance, capacity increase, performance in concurrency environments, single namespace and unlimited expansion without a forklift upgrade.

“One of the applications for Scala Storage is being used in a cloud environment data center. The recent development of Cinder drivers for OpenStack infrastructures allows Scala Storage to easily integrate to cloud datacenters using simple management and features to support over petabytes of data,” said Stanley Chan, director of business development, Scala Storage. “System administrators can now concentrate on OpenStack application development rather than the drive arrays themselves.“

Cinder drivers are available via the Scala Storage website. The Scala Storage scale-out system is available starting from hundreds of terabytes to multi-petabytes and is ready to deploy from factory.