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Surprise, surprise; snake-charmer EMC is open-sourcing its ViPR Controller product. ViPR is software storage controller tech that separates the control and data planes of operation, enabling different data services to be layered onto a set of storage hardware products - such as EMC's own arrays, Vblocks, selected third-party …

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  1. Nate Amsden

    openstack tools?

    Since when are " Chef, MongoDB, Docker, Cassandra and others" open stack tools? these are all stand alone applications/platforms. Maybe Openstack can use them but people have been using them without Openstack for years, and in some cases before Openstack probably even existed.

    I wonder if EMC was just not getting much/any traction with ViPR so they decided to open source it instead. The concept of the product sounded pretty neat at first anyway.

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    1. diodesign (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge
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      Re: openstack tools?

      "these are all stand alone applications/platforms."

      Yeah - our mistake. Meant "plus" not "such as". It's been fixed. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister if you spot anything odd.

      C.

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