Open Source is Accelerating Flash
We believe that open source is the lifeblood of innovation in the new datacenter and for cloud architectures, rapid innovation & transformed IT.
SANDISK IS COMMITTED
To open source and open standards through open source based innovation, contributions and memberships in consortia that support and nurture rapid innovation.
Our Open Source work is guided by our desire to:
- Stay mainlined - Contribute changes that can benefit others and are not SanDisk specific
- Add enterprise grade value in performance, QoS and usability to improve user experience
- Flash optimize - As the world’s leader in Flash and NVM technology, provide guidance and engage in initiatives to improve how software works with flash
MEMBERSHIP
SanDisk is a member of the Linux Foundation and the OpenStack Foundation. These partnerships support the power of collaboration in problem solving and creating inter-operability of solutions. Open Source innovation is at the forefront in many areas of technology, including cloud and web scale architectures. We are committed to making the use of flash technology compelling and continuing to perform at the highest levels.
Projects
| CEPH |
Ceph is a distributed object store-and-file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability. It is an Open Source project that has garnered momentum and support in large-scalable web and enterprise deployments. SanDisk’s InfiniFlash OS is based on Ceph and we are an active contributor to the Ceph base and community. Our contributions are in the area of making Ceph flash-optimized and ready for large flash deployments. |
| OPEN SOURCE CEPH HYPERSCALE: READY WITH ENTERPRISE CLASS TESTING AND HARDWARE INTEGRATION |
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| OPEN SOURCE CEPH OPTIMIZED FOR FLASH PERFORMANCE AND ENDURANCE |
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| OPENSTACK |
In public and private cloud creation, deployment and orchestration, the OpenStack project is unparalleled. The foundation brings together community and companies for creating software that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API. OpenStack works with popular enterprise and Open Source technologies making it ideal for various infrastructures. In addition to traditional Enterprise-Class storage technology, many organizations now have a variety of storage needs with fluctuating performance and price requirements. OpenStack has support for both Object Storage and Block Storage, with many deployment options for each depending on the needs of use. |
Improving Ceph for Big Data
Ceph is a distributed object store-and-file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability. SanDisk’s InfiniFlash OS is based on Ceph and we are an active contributor to the Ceph community, focusing on making Ceph flash-optimized and ready for large-scale flash deployments.
SanDisk supports the work in OpenStack through its Ceph based object storage solution; thus providing a scalable storage solution for insatiable cloud requirements. SanDisk is also committed to working with Cinder, Swift and other key components that can offer all of the advantages of OpenStack to our customers.
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