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OpenStack bandwagon rolls into Japan. We cross live to our Tokyo correspondent – Chris?

Who's hot and who's not in the Land of the Rising Sun

The OpenStack roadshow landed in Tokyo this week, hoping to show that it too is bathed in the rays of a rising sun.

Enough vendors queued up to announce that their software now supports the latest OpenStack something to keep the bandwagon moving forwards at a fast lick. Here are a few of the announcements:

  • Falconstor – FalconStor has Cinder integration in its FreeStor software-defined platform and is showing it at OpenStack Tokyo. Its Cinder driver enables access to FreeStor's data services with support for app-aware snapshots, sync mirroring, and replication. This will be submitted for OpenStack ratification as part of the March Mitaka release.
  • NetApp – the founder of the OpenStack Manila open-source file-share-as-a-service project, said Manila, available in the Liberty release, is production-ready for enterprise use. It provides an automated, on-demand, scalable service for delivering shared and distributed file systems using an open, standardized API. Historically, NetApp says, shared volumes couldn't be provisioned as a service in the cloud, and couldn't be migrated. With Manila, shared volumes can flow freely between public and private clouds.
  • Citrix – Citrix has completed validation of the v6.5 XenServer platform on Mirantis OpenStack 6.1, creating and validating a Fuel plug-in and documentation to facilitate deployment of XenServer with OpenStack.
  • OpenStack Foundation – it announced a professional certification program to provide a baseline assessment of knowledge and to be accessible to OpenStack professionals around the world.
  • IBM – here is a video of Harald Seipp adapting Swift for tape storage or other high latency media.
  • IBM – IBM Blue Box Local is an OpenStack-powered Infrastructure-as-a-Service to provide customers with an on-premises private cloud environment operated by IBM "offering companies the benefits of cloud without having to maintain it"; cloud-as-a-service, in other words. Big Blue says this "is significant for organizations in regulated industries such as banking, healthcare, and financial services that must follow strict mandates and internal policies for how security, compliance, and sensitive customer data is handled." You won't get fired for buying IBM.

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OpenStack has amassed industry-wide support with virtually no supplier giving out anti-OpenStack messages. On the one hand that's great, but on the other, despite encouraging marquee Fortune 500 adoption examples, mass mainstream adoption has still to happen.

There's everything to play for and the OpenStackites are going for it, determined to prove that OpenStack is not going to share the fate of X/Open, which said Windows was as open as Unix – remember that fiasco? ®

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