Olocity Blog

As those with IT responsibilities attempt to balance increased demands with increased costs, the topic of open source software (OSS) usually enters the conversation. However, this very familiar term is still wrapped in a high degree of misunderstanding and vendor hype. This paper will cover the best practices necessary for identifying the need for open source, evaluating open source options and integrating solutions based on standards like Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) and Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI).

Our team has been dealing with storage and storage standards for quite a while and took on the Cortex challenge. Could we actually develop, manage and monitor a Xiotech ISE using a proprietary API and do it quickly? The challenge was incorporating Xiotech’s cortex REST implementation within our systems management application, StorageIM. Could we perform [...]

Welcome to the Olocity Blog. We are an open source software and professional services company that is primarily involved in open source software and standards primarily pertaining to SMI-S and XAM. We started by developing an open source product StorageIM back in late 2005. During the inception of this project, the founders of Olocity were [...]