The storage market is growing rapidly, creating a new market for open source solutions, software-defined storage, and cloud computing. So SUSE’s announcement last month of its new enterprise storage solution based on the open source Ceph project is perfectly timed.
Ahead of the Linux Foundation’s new Vault storage conference, taking place in Boston this week, SUSE’s head of global product marketing Jason Phippen answered questions about SUSE Enterprise Storage, why they use Ceph, and industry trends in open source, software-defined storage.
If you’re attending Vault this week, be sure to look for the four SUSE engineers presenting there, including Lars Marowsky-Brée, a SUSE Distinguished Engineer and architect for SUSE Enterprise Storage. See the full conference schedule.
Linux.com: What is SUSE Enterprise Storage?
Jason Phippen: SUSE Enterprise Storage, powered by Ceph, is a highly scalable and resilient software-based storage solution. It enables organizations to build cost-efficient and highly scalable storage using commodity off-the-shelf servers and disk drives. It is self-healing and self-managing and delivers storage functionality comparable to mid- and high-end storage products at a fraction of the cost. It also scales from terabyte to a multi-petabyte storage network.
This unlimited scalability enables enterprise IT organizations to deliver the agility businesses demand by non-disruptively adding capacity at the cost they want to pay while enabling storage administrators to minimize the amount of time spent managing storage.