OpenStack's flexibility and extendability allows provider to build powerful applications and offer highly scalable services using OpenStack. Compute, storage and network related OpenStack services can be extended to deliver flexible block and file storage services to both cloud and non cloud based enterprise tenants. Nexenta's ability to deliver cost effective, high performance storage solutions can used be as an essential foundation block behind these scalable Storage as a Service infrastructures. This presentation will provide an overview of the existing OpenStack storage architecture, how OpenStack can be turned into a scalable storage as a service platform and the key role that Nexenta's offerings can play in delivering these services.
