OpenSDS Adds New Members: Click2Cloud, GMO Pepabo, Intel, Internet Initiative Japan and KPN

The Linux Foundation, the non-profit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, announced that Click2Cloud, Inc., GMO Pepabo, Inc., Intel, Corp., Internet Initiative Japan, Inc. and KPN B.V. have joined the OpenSDS Project.

The OpenSDS community also announced the release of Bali, the second version of its open source software for SDSe control. Bali features support for multi-cloud data control with a single S3 object REST API across multiple clouds, allowing end users to combine object storage services from AWS, Azure, and Huawei into a single solution. On-premise Ceph S3 object is in development and will be available as an update to the Bali release. Bali also supports manual data migration from on-premise storage to cloud storage. Policy-based multi-cloud data control and support for Google, IBM, and other cloud service providers are planned for 2019.

The OpenSDS community worked with the Container Storage Interface (CSI) community to define the CSI v1.0 spec which added support for data services snapshot creation and volume creation from snapshot. The Kubernetes CSI v1.0 plug-in is available in the Bali release.

This release also added support for multi-OpenStack deployment using the OpenSDS storage controller to provision block storage for multiple clusters of OpenStack, bringing the benefits of storage consolidation to end users.

“We are excited to welcome so many leading global organizations into the OpenSDS project to help deliver on our vision of a vendor neutral intelligent storage management framework for the cloud era.” said Steven Tan, OpenSDS TSC chairman, and VP and CTO of cloud storage solution, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. “Bali multi-cloud is another step in our path to offer end users the freedom to choose services that best suits the needs of end users.“

“OpenSDS Bali release brings hybrid features to customers’ private clouds and traditional data centers. Given that some workloads work best on premise and some in different public clouds, the latest features of federated orchestration across multiple clouds in OpenSDS Bali release is one of the most interesting features in any product today“, said Rakesh Jain, OpenSDS TSC vice-chair and senior researcher and architect, IBM Corp. “Our objective in the next releases is to further place OpenSDS in the modern storage hierarchy, in particular with NVMEoF“.

The new contributors to the OpenSDS project will help accelerate the project’s evolution, including development of flash management, and the adoption of NVMe and NVMe over Fabric in cloud native environments. The addition of these leaders is a testimony to the value the project brings to open source storage management.

OpenSDS new members:

Click2Cloud: A multinational corporation incorporated in the State of Washington having expertise in cloud comparison, CMP, infrastructure automation and cloud migration. “Click2Cloud, a cloud migration technology company, is committed in extending the OpenSDS capabilities for storage and migration fo a multi-cloud Design and multi-cloud providers,” said Prashant Mishra, CEO, Click2Cloud.

GMO Pepabo: A Tokyo and Fukuoka-based technology company. Since its foundation the company has focused on consumer-targeted Internet services, and it comprises four business segments: Hosting which operates consumer domain registration and web hosting services, Ecommerce support which provides ecommerce platform solutions, Customer to Customer (C2C) marketplace for handmade products, and Community that facilitates communication among Internet users through blogging. “Our IT infrastructure consists our own private cloud and on-premise storage. We hope to leverage technologies from OpenSDS to improve the efficiency of our storage management,” said Shinya Tsunematsu, CTL, GMO Pepabo.

Intel: “SDS is a cornerstone of the modern data center because it helps organizations better manage the growing data being generated by connected devices and services. OpenSDS fills a key need in the storage ecosystem by enabling multi-cloud support and enhanced back-end control. Intel looks forward to working with the OpenSDS community to drive the project’s evolution and adoption,’ said Mark Skarpness, VP, Intel architecture graphics and software, and director of systems engineering, system software products.

Internet Initiative Japan:  IIJ is Japan’s first ISP. Since the creation of the company, it has expanded its business portfolio as a total solutions provider, now offering network services, value-added outsourcing services, cloud services, WAN services and systems integration services. “SDS will be essential part of the operation of large-scale data centers in the future. OpenSDS is aiming to provide practical and innovative solution for modern storage management. The collaboration with OpenSDS will help to accelerate the modernization of our data center,” said Michitaka Terada, manager, distributed system engineering section, CSD2, CD, IIJ.

KPN: “KPN is the leading supplier of telecom and IT services in The Netherlands. The KPN marketing vision to position a managed hybrid cloud portfolio based on on-premise, Private cloud and public cloud solutions, requires a uniform storage interface from the application layer to the actual storage Infrastructure, completely decoupled on each layer and based on SNIA Swordfish standards. Adopting Open SDS will combine the ability to join SNIA standards and add own logics at the same time to act as One-Platform,” said Niels Hoffmann, director technology roadmaps, KPN.