Technology of OpenIO Validated on Kinetic Open Storage

OpenIO, Inc., an open source object storage vendor, announced its Kinetic Open Storage certification as part of its participation in Kinetic Plugfest, an open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation, and anticipates the next storage industry revolution.

OpenIO SDS integrates the Kinetic Open Storage platform to enable a new scale-out storage approach. While keeping all the key features of the OpenIO technology, such as built-in tiering, never rebalance, erasure coding, geo-replication, and without modifying the internals of the core solution, OpenIO leverages the benefits of Kinetic drives.

From high-end storage arrays, the industry has evolved to commodity x86 servers to reach petabyte scale. Kinetic Open Storage is the next major step that will enable finer grained scalability for even larger platforms. OpenIO embraces the idea of reducing overhead drive costs by presenting them directly on the network. It simplifies the software and hardware stack, and reduces the management complexity of the storage platform. The OpenIO technology and Kinetic Open Storage combined replace the usual x86 servers in the datacenter.

OpenIO is among the few object storage vendors that are able to cope with thousands of nodes in one single platform. Each Kinetic drive is managed as an OpenIO node, reflecting Seagate Technology LLC‘s vision while designing the Kinetic technology. At petabyte scale and more, this order of magnitude in terms of number of drives is reached.

As a flexible and versatile technology, OpenIO is to become the universal solution for any application’s data access regardless of the storage tier (internal drives and SSDs, kinetic drives, hybrid storage cloud, etc.).

According to Seagate, the Kinetic Open Storage platform is an object-based storage platform that breaks from block and file architectures. Designed for unstructured cloud data, the Kinetic medias reduce TCO by up to 50% and simplifies the software stack, boosting performance up to 4x.

“OpenIO’s unique storage solution represents an innovative approach for customers, and is a great fit for the Kinetic Open Storage Project. While providing flexible object or file based interface options, they offer tailored business additions for video, email, or enterprise deployments, offering even more value to customers,” said David Burks, director, enterprise product strategy, Seagate and chairman, Kinetic Open Storage Project, Linux Foundation.

“OpenIO is a firm believer that the Kinetic drives are part of the future for datacenter technologies. We are very proud of the collaboration with Seagate and to be certified today. That very first step anticipates an even more disruptive evolution for OpenIO to be run as a server-less platform,” said Laurent Denel, co-founder and CEO, OpenIO.

About Kinetic Open Storage Project
The Kinetic Open Storage Project, a Linux Foundation project, is dedicated to creating an open standard around Ethernet-enabled, key/value kinetic devices. The architecture is inspired by the scale-out data center in which Ethernet and Linux are ubiquitous, open source software reduces barriers to entry, and hardware is becoming commoditized. Project members include Cisco, Cleversafe, Dell, Digital Sense, EMC, Exablox, Huawei, NetApp, OpenIO, Red Hat, Scality, Seagate, SwiftStack, Toshiba and Western Digital.

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