Open Source Cloud Storage Server

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 ...

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 ...

While the term cloud computing is not new (Amazon started providing its cloud services in 2006), it has been a real buzzword since 2008, when cloud services from Google and Amazon gained public attention. Google's app engine enables users to build and host Web applications on Google's infrastructure. Together with S3,amazonweb services also includes elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) calculation ...

A, virtualization virtualization refers to the ability to simulate multiple virtual machines on the same physical machine. Each virtual machine has a separate processor, memory, hard disk, and network interface logically. The use of virtualization technology can improve the utilization of hardware resources, so that multiple applications can run on the same physical machine with each other isolated operating environment. There are also different levels of virtualization, such as virtualization at the hardware level and virtualization at the software level. Hardware virtualization refers to the simulation of hardware to obtain a similar to the real computer environment, you can run a complete operating system. In the hardware virtual ...

At the end of March, Red Hat released its fiscal year 2012 and full-year earnings for the year ended February 29, 2012. Red Hat's total revenue for fiscal year 2012 was 1.13 billion dollars, according to earnings reports. At this point, Red Hat has become the first IT industry revenue more than 1 billion dollars of open source solution vendors. How does Red Hat do three years 1 billion? What are the new trends in red Hat in the past 2012 years? What are the plans for the future? Core Linux business and virtualization this May, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been unveiled for 10 years. May 2002, Red Hat launched the first enterprise Linux ...

Open source Hotspot Inventory 1984, Richard Stallman launched GNU and Free Softwarefoundation, which has been open source for more than 28 years. From the bottom of the operating system to advanced desktop applications, there are open source footprint. Linux, which is especially open source operating system, is a controversial issue and is subject to many commercial attacks. 　　Many people like to put open source and business together, to accuse Open source is how "irregular", "energy consumption", "instability" and so on, especially Microsoft. Talk about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...