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How many options are there for an open source cloud storage product you can run at your own site now?

I'm sure I've overlooked a few, but the ones I'm aware of (roughly in chronological order of when they first became usable) are:

Eucalyptus's Walrus http://open.eucalyptus.com/wiki/EucalyptusStorage_v1.4

OpenStack's Swift http://swift.openstack.org/

SpiderOak's Nimbus.io https://nimbus.io/

Basho's Riak CS http://basho.com/products/riakcs/

Glad to see so much interest in this space.

I think Basho made a good strategic choice with what they call "Per-Tenant Visibility", which will facilitate other cloud hosting providers that compete with Amazon reselling Riak CS as a storage service.



I think Basho made a good strategic choice with what they call "Per-Tenant Visibility", which will facilitate other cloud hosting providers that compete with Amazon reselling Riak CS as a storage service.

Yeah, OpenStack has that as well, from my understanding. I'm trying to figure out the other differences between the two.


According to the GigaOM article, Basho is charging $10,000 in licensing per storage server, so I guess it's not actually free and open source software. :(

Nimbus.io is AGPL, Swift is Apache, Walrus is either GPLv3 or BSD.




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