Cloud Computing: NetApp adds clustering technology to OpenStack
October 16, 2012
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknäs.
NetApp has contributed Data ONTAP 8 Clustering drivers to OpenStack, giving service providers and enterprises better resources when building private and public clouds based on the platform, it said on Monday.
The addition of drivers for Data ONTAP 8 Clustering to OpenStack Folsom, the latest version of the open source cloud platform, allows organizations to automate management of NetApp storage pools, or clusters, and to scale the cloud infrastructure. That will in turn allow enterprises to increase storage efficiency and reduce disk and power needs, the company said…
OpenStack Folsom, which became generally available last month, allows IT staff to automate the creation of pools of compute, storage, and networking resources, which is a good fit with its own additions, according to NetApp…
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