John Kreisa writes that today’s release of the Gluster Connector for OpenStack is big news for the cloud. So what are we about to release for OpenStack? This line from the press release says it all: ...

“Slow, cheap and deep – object storage has that reputation,” says Steven Hill, senior analyst for storage technologies at 451 Research. “In part because that’s all that was expected of it at the time.

Rackspace officially released the first sets of code for its open-source cloud computing platform, OpenStack, on Thursday, just three months after the project's inception. Dubbed "Austin," the release ...