Customers Can Deploy a Wider Variety of OpenStack Workloads for Greater Economic and Business Flexibility
TOKYO, JAPAN--(Marketwired - Oct 26, 2015) - OPENSTACK SUMMIT -- NetApp, Inc. (
As the founder of the Manila project and a charter member of the OpenStack Foundation, NetApp® has contributed deep expertise and technology that enable application developers to choose the best cloud storage model for their applications. Developers also benefit from the flexibility of shared file systems to interact with data. Because file shares can be offered as a service, they can be self-served and migrated, no matter whether the cloud is on or off the premises or is private or public. As a result, cloud users and applications can self-provision and manage shared file systems for the first time.
NetApp's contributions to Manila, developed as a component of OpenStack, provide an automated, on-demand, scalable service for delivering shared and distributed file systems using an open, standardized API developed within the OpenStack community. Historically, shared volumes couldn't be provisioned as a service in the cloud, and, as a result, they couldn't be migrated. With Manila, shared volumes can now flow freely between public and private clouds. Available in the OpenStack Liberty release, Manila has also been engineered to allow modular use with other cloud stacks. In addition, Manila enables choice in back-end options, a result of NetApp's outreach to the open-source storage community.
"A lack of file share as a service for cloud was an enormous gap in OpenStack functionality. Now that Manila has matured to production-ready status, our Data ONTAP® customers can deploy file share services for their cloud apps. This further enables simple access and use of data across the cloud data fabric," said Phil Brotherton, vice president, Data Fabric Group at NetApp.
Leveraging the Cloud-Ready Capabilities of Clustered Data ONTAP
NetApp® clustered Data ONTAP® storage software is the driver for Manila. The software brings best-in-class data management capabilities to OpenStack cloud deployments, increasing efficiency, availability, and scalability. Customers benefit from multi-tenant controls and data protection over the entire data lifecycle.
Manila Bridges Traditional Workloads to the Cloud
Many of the most critical business applications, regardless of environment, rely on shared file systems. Prior to Manila, file sharing was not available in cloud environments, and alternatives were time consuming and difficult to configure. Manila enables users to quickly and easily create and benefit from a service-oriented architecture:
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