What is OpenSDS?
OpenSDS is an open source community working to address storage integration challenges, particularly in scale-out cloud native environments with heterogeneous storage platforms.
OpenSDS Goals
- No vendor lock-in
- Not under the control of a single or small group of companies
- Accelerate development with shared components
- Solve common end-user pain points
- Optimize storage operations and utilization
- Deploy in traditional or cloud-native environments
- Mix and match ‘OpenSDS Ready’ hardware, software, UI, services, and apps
- Hit the ground running with new projects
Stuffs We Are Developing
Storage Orchestration
Storage Multi-Cloud
End User Community
OpenSDS End User Community is growing, and includes global companies that are committed to adopting and accelerating storage innovations for the cloud-native era.
Events
OpenSDS's first meet-up in China
- Heavyweight enterprises will gather together, such as China Mobile, China Telecom, Huawei, Intel, and IBM.
Trendy technologies will be shared, such as multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, NVMeoF, distributed storage, and SDS.
Thursday Nov. 15, 6:00 pm
Starbucks, Joy City Shopping Mall,
Xizang Road, Shanghai
OpenSDS Mini Summit Copenhagen at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018
Other Past Events
OpenSDS Mini Summit Copenhagen is an all-day educational event co-located event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018
Tuesday May 1, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Bella Congress Center
Copenhagen, Kobenhavn S2300 Denmark
OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2018
May 21-24, 2018
Vancouver Convention Centre West
1055 Canada Place
Vancouver, BC V6C 0C3
Canada
Open Source Summit Japan 2018
June 20-22, 2018
Tokyo Conference Center Ariake
Tokyo. Japan
OSCON Portland 2018
Jul 18-19, 2018
Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97232
USA
Flash Memory Summit 2018
- Hear Anjaneya ‘Reddy’ Chagam (Intel) and Steven Tan (Huawei) talk about Managing Flash in OpenSDS for Cloud-Native Frameworks
- See OpenSDS demo at Huawei booth 839
Aug 7-9, 2018
Santa Clara Convention Center
5001 Great America Pkwy
Santa Clara, CA 95054
USA
SNIA Storage Developer Conference 2018
- Hear Anjaneya ‘Reddy’ Chagam (Intel) and Steven Tan (Huawei) talk about OpenSDS Flash Manageability Using Swordfish for Cloud-Native Frameworks
- See OpenSDS demo at the OpenSDS booth
Sep 24-27, 2018
Hyatt Regency Hotel
5101 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054
USA
OpenSDS Mini Summit Prague at Open Source Summit Europe 2017
OPENSDS 2018

Technical Steering Committee
The Technical Steering Committee (TSC) is the primary decision making forum for OpenSDS projects and serves to set the overall technical direction and strategy for OpenSDS.
Steven Tan, Chairman
VP & CTO Storage Cloud Solution, Huawei
Rakesh Jain, Vice-Chair
Research Engineer and Architect, IBM Research
Allen Samuels
R&D Engineering Fellow, Western Digital
Anjaneya “Reddy” Chagam
Chief SDS Architect, Intel
Jay Bryant
Lenovo, Cloud Storage Lead
Shinya Hamano
Fujitsu, Lead Engineer
End User Advisory Committee
The End User Advisory Committee (EUAC) is to assist and support the OpenSDS community in its objectives by providing technical and strategic guidance real-world storage challenges
Yusuke Sato
Yahoo Japan
Yuji Yazawa
Toyota
Cosimo Rossetti
Vodafone
Kei Kusunoki
NTT Communications
Wim Jacobs
KPN, Senior Architect
Shinya Tsunematsu
GMO Pepabo, Chief Technical Lead