Today SanDisk Corporation announced contributions to the open source Ceph object, block, and file storage platform. This news follows on the heels of SanDisk’s announcement of its first storage system, the all-flash InfiniFlash system for Big Data. InfiniFlash is powered by Ceph open source software (OSS). SanDisk is solidifying its commitment to being an open source contributor enabling it to deliver more open, easy-to-integrate and cost-effective solutions to customers.
Today SanDisk Corporation announced contributions to the open source Ceph object, block, and file storage platform. This news follows on the heels of SanDisk’s announcement of its first storage system, the all-flash InfiniFlash system for Big Data. InfiniFlash is powered by Ceph open source software (OSS). SanDisk is solidifying its commitment to being an open source contributor enabling it to deliver more open, easy-to-integrate and cost-effective solutions to customers.
According to Gartner, “The open-source storage market has matured substantially, making the technology viable for an increasingly wider range of use cases.” Gartner expects open source storage will gain 20% of the overall storage market by 2018. SanDisk hopes to drive this adoption through collaboration with other companies and the broader Linux community.
SanDisk has developed several performance enhancements to the core Ceph software defined storage solution. Based on internal testing, SanDisk efforts have resulted in a 10x improvement for block reads and a 2x improvement in object read flows when Ceph is deployed on a flash storage system and have helped optimize the Ceph client to make performance more consistent overall. SanDisk’s InfiniFlash is another example of OSS-based innovation. Built on OSS standards, InfiniFlash enables open source stacks and custom-built software to seamlessly integrate with the platform at the infrastructure and application layers. InfiniFlash also includes support for OpenStack cloud protocols. And to deliver enterprise-class data services, InfiniFlash utilizes a ‘flash-intelligent’ Ceph platform, giving customers better performance, efficiency, and TCO.
SanDisk has contributed to several other open source technology projects including:
- The Android operating system stack for mobile devices
- The Linux kernel for memory management and file system to enable better performance with flash
- The Android Real Path Storage library, an Apache licensed project maintained by SanDisk, that enables application developers to use external memory like SD cards in their Android applications
- SCST, a GPL-licensed SCSI target software stack that is maintained by SanDisk developers
- Enterprise applications like Cassandra, MySQL, Hadoop and others to optimize them for use with SanDisk flash technology
