At the SUSECON2014 conference, SuSE announced the release of the SuSE Storage beta version. At present, SuSE has begun SuSE Storage beta version of the test phase, the official version will be released in the first half of 2015.
SUSE storage is a distributed software storage solution for enterprise customers that can achieve self healing and self-management. With SuSE storage and commercial finished (COTS) disk arrays, customers can meet their growing demand for object storage, archival storage, and bulk storage at a more economical cost.
Gartner, the vice president of server and storage, said that Gartner predicted that the market share of open source storage would account for 20% by 2018, becoming an Orthodox market solution for the organization's Zaffos.
The full-featured SuSE storage is based on the Firefly version of the Ceph Open source project, which reduces TCO and is more suitable for object storage, archival storage, and bulk storage. Its features include caching tiering, allocating storage resources on demand, remote replication, write-copy cloning, and erasure codes.
SUSE Storage product manager Larry Morris said: "Today's storage market is brewing a disruptive change, just like the server market 15 years ago." SUSE Storage is an ideal solution for companies that are struggling to manage exploding data growth to meet their needs in a reliable, secure, and cost-efficient manner. ”