Latest Updates to OrangeFS Include Web Pack and Better Performance
The recent maintenance update (Version 2.8.7), added to the June 18 release of
Version 2.8.6, provide significant improvements in performance, extended
Linux Kernel support (including 3.x) and new Direct Interface libraries
for POSIX and system calls to seamlessly integrate with OrangeFS. The project team also added
support for WebDAV and S3 in its first offering of
Web Pack, a separate download to be extended in future releases as a toolkit for Web-based communications.
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Saddle Up!
We're Headed For Texas
Once again, we're dusting off our cowboy boots and heading to the Lone Star State for Texas Linux Fest 2013 (May 31-Jun 1) at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin.
Omnibond, a Silver Sponsor and the OrangeFS Team are exhibiting and presenting! Anyone interested in Free and Open Source software is encouraged to enjoy a host of authoritative speakers—including Omnibond's own Boyd Wilson, who will present Saturday (5 p.m. in Track E) on one of our latest developments, OrangeFS for Big Data and the Amazon Cloud.
Stop by our booth in the expo hall for free materials and handouts and the answers to any question you may have about OrangeFS.
See you in Austin, partner!
Omnibond Creates New NetIQ Driver
In the recent Standard Edition release of Identity Manager 4.0 Omnibond contributed a new driver that enables the Blackboard Learn course management system to synchronize its account data with Identity Manager. To learn more, visit the Identity Manager product and driver documentation pages at NetIQ.com. Also see our pages for Product Information and Downloads & Links.
The OrangeFS
team continues its work to provide you the next evolution of PVFS.
They are collaborating with the community, working on features such as:
- Improved metadata and small-file performance
- Secure access control
- Increased testing
- Cross-server redundancy
- Diverse Client Access Methods: POSIX, MPI, Linux VFS, FUSE, Windows, WebDAV, S3 and REST
These new features are in addition to existing advantages, such as distributed metadata, user-level file system (no kernel modifications necessary), easy deployment and optimized MPIO support.
OrangeFS Overview Subscription Pricing
Omnibond is also offering paid, commercial-grade services for OrangeFS. We are committed to the product community to keep the future development of PVFS and OrangeFS completely open. Operating under the LPGL philosophy for open source development, OrangeFS gains any user or customer an equal voice in the control of its destiny.
Identity and Access Management
In the 13 years since our inception, we have been development partners with Novell, and now NetIQ (the partnership was extended to NetIQ when its parent company purchased Novell), providing engineering and support for their identity and security products.
Our expertise in a broad number of systems and applications has extended NetIQ Identity Manager and NetIQ Sentinel products to numerous platforms for thousands of customers worldwide.
Omnibond is investing heavily in OrangeFS, the next generation of PVFS across the growing market for high-performance computing and its related storage needs.
Contact us to get started using OrangeFS.
And be sure to visit orangefs.org to follow the development community and download the latest releases of OrangeFS: