Storage and backup ranked sixth among the top 10 applications or workloads in use with open source OpenStack cloud technology, according to survey results released yesterday at the OpenStack Summit in H***.
The OpenStack User Committee and Foundation polled cloud operators and end users about their use of the open source technology and, from 822 survey responses, the staff catalogued 387 OpenStack cloud deployments across 56 countries.
Logical Volume Manager for Linux was the No. 1 storage type used with OpenStack, as cited by 31% of the respondents. Rounding out the list were open source Ceph (which can run on commodity hardware) at 17%, NFS-based storage at 16%, NetApp at 8%, GlusterFS at 7%, and EMC at 3%. A scattering of other storage systems factored into the remaining 18%.
