EVault Joins OpenStack Community

EVault,
Inc. is joining the OpenStack community, a community
of technologists, developers, researchers, corporations and cloud computing
experts delivering a scalable cloud OS.

EVault will be both contributing to ongoing
OpenStack development, and working to add OpenStack support to its cloud
storage services.

The company provides onsite, cloud and
cloud-connected data protection solutions to help organisations protect
distributed environments, supported by a secure cloud storage infrastructure
and backed by high quality customer service. It has been a leader in the
industry’s move to hybrid storage models, with an integrated ecosystem of
EVault storage software, SaaS, managed services and appliances that help ensure
customers maintain BC.

"EVault
is proud to have been a key contributor to cloud business adoption, having
first introduced cloud backup solutions 15 years ago. EVault is joining the
OpenStack community of software developers collaborating on this scalable open
source cloud management platform," said George Hoenig, VP, open storage, EVault. "EVault’s parent
company, Seagate, announced its commitment to working with the Open Source
community on cloud-optimised hardware and software systems. EVault plans to
build upon OpenStack, and to work closely with Seagate to design and deliver
reliable, cost-effective, and simple to use cloud storage services."

EVault intends to focus its contributions
around OpenStack Swift. A distributed object store that organisations can use
to store large amounts of data.

"Swift’s
fully distributed architecture allows for extreme scalability. Its redundant
and self-healing properties provide for enterprise durability while
simultaneously keeping storage management costs to a minimum," Hoenig
added.