Best Open Source Cloud Storage

The storage system is the core infrastructure of the IT environment in the data center, and it is the final carrier of data access. Storage in cloud computing, virtualization, large data and other related technologies have undergone a huge change, block storage, file storage, object storage support for a variety of data types of reading; Centralized storage is no longer the mainstream storage architecture of data center, storage access of massive data, need extensibility, 　　Highly scalable distributed storage architecture. In the new IT development process, data center construction has entered the era of cloud computing, enterprise IT storage environment can not be simple ...

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) is one of the subprojects of the OpenStack Open source Cloud project, known as Object storage, which provides powerful extensibility, redundancy, and durability. This article will describe swift in terms of architecture, principles, and practices. Swift is not a file system or a real-time data storage system, which is called object storage and is used for long-term storage of permanent types of static data that can be retrieved, adjusted, and updated as necessary. Examples of data types that are best suited for storage are virtual machine mirroring, picture saving ...

50 million users, 240 million U.S. dollars revenue, 4 billion U.S. dollars market value. Dropbox has seen a dazzling treasure for all the participants in the personal cloud storage industry. Foreign Google, Microsoft and Apple and other giants passion to join, the domestic Jinshan, Huawei, Baidu, Tencent, Qihoo 360, Thunder, NetEase, China Telecom and hardware manufacturers are not hesitate. 50 million users, 240 million U.S. dollars revenue, 4 billion U.S. dollars market value. Dropbox has seen a dazzling treasure for all the participants in the personal cloud storage industry. Foreign Google, Microsoft and Apple ...

The cloud storage Standard--CDMI specification, published by SNIa in April 2010, may have been a thrill for cloud-storage-related vendors, but how much does it do for the security and stability of cloud storage and the scalability of the current user's suspicions?     We don't know. Cloud storage was originally a concept that came out after cloud computing, but it didn't come up with a standard before cloud computing. This also fulfilled the phrase Bill Gates once said: "Cloud storage will be faster than cloud computing." Cloud ...

According to Gartner, about 19% of organizations are using cloud services in production calculations, and about 20% of organizations are using public cloud storage services. This means that the cloud computing market, especially the cloud storage market, is quite large. Gartner once made a forecast that in 2012, cloud computing spending amounted to $109 billion trillion, an increase of 20% per cent year-on-year. Cloud computing is a big industry, and today many manufacturers are claiming to have a cloud strategy. Gartner recently released the top ten list of cloud storage vendors, which are basically able to provide some enterprise-class ...

In the industry, there is a view that migrating CRM and ERP applications to the cloud is a very important trend. Clearly this trend is in line with business development needs. At present, the ERP market has experienced the challenge of financial crisis, it budget reduction, ERP vendors face the painted door, the implementation of the success rate of the query, the entire ERP market seems to be facing unprecedented chaotic scene. The emergence of financial crisis, so that enterprises began to pay more attention to the importance of management, in the last two years of recovery period, enterprises for investment, whether the enterprise's IT investment, or business investment, are more cautious, with ...

As a software developer or DBA, one of the essential tasks is to deal with databases, such as MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and so on. As we all know, MySQL is currently the most widely used and the best free open source database, in addition, there are some you do not know or useless but excellent open source database, such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, HBase, Cassandra, Couchba ...

For years I've been worried that the open source movement might suffer from Kim Stanley Robinson's brilliant exposition of "Green Mars": "The tide of history is faster than we do."   "Innovators are left behind, and the world they've changed is running in unexpected directions with their ideas." In the "Open source paradigm shift" and "What is Web 2.0" These articles I think the internet as a private platform mainly built on the open source software, its success is likely to lead in the field of cloud computing ...

In the 25 years that Richard Stallman wrote the GNU General Public License (GPL), FOSS has been widely used in computing: Linux, Apache HTTP servers, and MySQL, among many businesses around the world. And now more and more open source is used in cloud computing. "In building cloud computing, open source is undoubtedly the foundation," Red H ... for cloud business products, management software and Red Hat Enterprise MRG (instant Messaging, realtime and grid platforms).

Forrester Research argues that cloud data services will overtake traditional storage. However, according to Huawei's market performance in the 2014, traditional storage still has huge growth space. 　　Executives at Huawei's storage division believe that the Cloud's essence is service, and that the cloud of software functionality (that is, service) is the way to achieve high-performance, high-capacity, highly scalable, and high-reliability. "Do not say cloud and large data, only said that the calculation and storage of two devices market space a year also close to 100 billion dollars, there is enough space to ...