External storage isn’t limited to physical hardware appliances; block storage can be assigned to OpenStack from a variety of software-based systems, both commercial and open-source.

At OpenStack Summit Wednesday, one Rackspace exec said the company is getting ready to release in the next few weeks a Block Storage product based on the "Cinder" Block Storage service component ...

Cinder provides persistent block-level storage devices for use with OpenStack and manages the creation, attaching and detaching of block devices to servers. Block storage volumes are fully integrated ...

Storage is one of the key building blocks of clouds, and so it was no surprise that storage technology was a key part of the recent OpenStack Summit. Several vendors used the conference to show a ...

When clouds based on the open-source OpenStack code are built, there will be no lack of storage thanks to the rush by storage vendors to be a part of the OpenStack ecosystem.

VMware vs OpenStack: How they handle storage The opportunities and challenges presented by the two virtualisation environments when it comes to storage, backup and disaster recovery.

Swift: OpenStack object storage OpenStack has two major storage platforms: An object storage system named Swift and a block storage platform named Cinder.

This enables users to create advanced storage workflows beyond OpenStack’s Cinder Block Storage services, such as automation of snapshot policies, replication, IO statistics, and capacity ...

This hyperconverged approach for Symphony is distinct from the way OpenStack is normally deployed, which has Cinder block storage and Ceph or Swift object storage deployed on distinct nodes in the ...

Cinder provides persistent block-level storage devices for use with OpenStack and manages the creation, attaching and detaching of block devices to servers. Block storage volumes are fully integrated ...