This release introduced Manila, which brings support for shared file systems into OpenStack to complement ... as many of the concepts and API calls were anticipated to share much in common between ...

standardized API developed within the OpenStack community. Historically, shared volumes couldn't be provisioned as a service in the cloud, and, as a result, they couldn't be migrated. With Manila ...

Incidentally, the OpenStack project has also recently introduced Manila, a scale-out file storage ... from a Swift cluster using ReST-based API calls that are based on standard HTTP/S web protocols.

Red Hat on Tuesday said it has integrated OpenStack Manila shared file system services with its Red Hat Gluster Storage to provide enterprises with a scale-out file system for OpenStack clouds.

NetApp's contributions to Manila, developed as a component of OpenStack, provide an automated, on-demand, scalable service for delivering shared and distributed file systems using an open, ...