UPDATED 08:00 EDT / OCTOBER 31 2014

Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen NEWS

Pure Storage joins forces with OpenStack

Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen

Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen

OpenStack might still have plenty of detractors who say it’s an over-hyped and immature technology, but the number of backers continues to grow. Yesterday, Flash storage vendor Pure Storage Inc., became the latest company to pledge support for the OpenStack Foundation, joining a long list of tech firms who believe in its potential to build viable, AWS-like scalable clouds using open-source software.

Pure Storage has signed up as a “corporate sponsor” of the OpenStack Foundation, which is the lowest level of sponsorship. Other corporate sponsors include EMC Corp., F5 Networks Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Parallels Inc., PayPal Inc., SAP SE, Seagate Technology PLC and VCE. This means it’ll contribute some $25,000 annually to OpenStack’s development in addition to its Flash storage expertise.

“OpenStack is one of the most vibrant and significant open source projects of our time, and is rapidly emerging as the de facto standard for the creation and management of private and public cloud environments for service providers, in the enterprise, and beyond,” said Matt Kixmoeller, vice president of products at Pure Storage.

“The collaboration of the Pure Storage engineering team will help our global developer community advance open storage standards in the enterprise, powered by OpenStack,” added OpenStack Foundation executive director Matt Kixmoeller.

To coincide with the announcement, Pure Storage has also released two new software products for OpenStack users – the first is a Cinder Driver for its Purity Operating Environment (OE) storage management software, and the second is its Python Automation Toolkit that extends automation of its Flash Arrays via Python scripts on top of OpenStack. In addition, Pure Storage will be integrating its RESTful API with OpenStack, to enable native commands for its gear.

The two solutions will allow PureStorage’s flash arrays to integrate more tightly with OpenStack, delivering massively simplified storage management, easy automation and expanded features for production-ready OpenStack clouds, the company said.


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