Web Host DreamHost Contributing Code for Ceph File System to OpenStack

By Liam Eagle,June 23, 2011

An image from the OpenStack documentation, illustrating its object storage system

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider DreamHost (http://www.dreamhost.com/) announced on Thursday that it is contributing code to the OpenStack (http://www.openstack.org/) open source cloud computing technology community.

DreamHost says it has been a strong supporter of open source software, and the community that surrounds it for many years, and views the opportunity to contribute to the development of OpenStack as a way to benefit the hosting industry at large.

Launched in 2010, OpenStack is an open source platform for building cloud computing solutions, originally created using code contributed by hosting provider Rackspace, along with NASA. The OpenStack community has since branched off, and now includes more than 75 participating organizations.

DreamHost says its software development team has been contributing code to the OpenStack project for several months, and plans to continue over the long term. Among the projects it is working on, DreamHost says it is working to integrate Ceph, its open source file system for managing petabyte-scale data, with the OpenStack code.

“We had originally created Ceph to address an industry need for a commodity-based open source distributed data storage platform,” says DreamHost’s Ben Cherian, generalm of emerging technologies, quoted in the company’s press release. “When we learned of the OpenStack project, we saw a real opportunity to apply this technology to a larger community effort.  We believe that the future of cloud computing is in open source, and efforts like OpenStack are key to realizing its full potential.”

DreamHost launched Ceph earlier this year. There are several posts on the DreamHost blog, offering some insight into the development process, as well as some information about implementing and using the technology.

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