Mpstor With MPStackware Support for OpenStack Cloud OS

In a move that drives flexibility, giving data centers the freedom to migrate away from proprietary and expensive enterprise storage systems, MPSTOR announced its open-platform storage management software MPStackware now supports the OpenStack data center operating system (OS).

"We made a strategic decision to focus on data center automation," said William Oppermann, MPSTOR founder. "The momentum behind open source and open standards to build public and private clouds is clearly growing as demonstrated by the strong industry support for OpenStack. Our customers can now use our MPStackware running under the OpenStack OS to deploy a full data center solution, regaining the flexibility and cost savings lost through the use of proprietary platforms that cannot be easily expanded or upgraded."

MPStackware is now available with optional software modules under the OpenStack Apache 2.0 license which integrates the OpenStack Nova (compute) and OpenStack Swift (object store) frameworks. The new MPStackware modules provide automatic volume provisioning for virtual machines and a common management database framework for billing, support, maintenance and operations.

Cork Internet eXchange (CIX), an Irish data center, plans to launch an Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, based on the MPStackware, OpenStack solution.

"With this open-platform and open-API architecture solution, we see advantages in being able to elastically scale our infrastructure as our business grows while retaining the flexibility to purchase incremental hardware needs from a variety of suppliers," said Jerry Sweeney, managing director of CIX. "We also see great potential for improving operational efficiencies in our data center through leveraging the software’s ability to automate the provisioning and tiering of storage."