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One Open Ecosystem, Infinite Possibilities COMMUNITY R E P O R T 202 1
SODA
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REPORT
2021
CONTENT
3 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
5 SODA GOVERNING BOARD
7 SODA MEMBERS
8 END USER ADVISORY COMMITTEE UPDATE
9 TECHNICAL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE UPDATE
10 ARCHITECTURE WORK GROUP UPDATE
11 SODA PROJECTS UPDATES
17 OUTREACH COMMITTEE UPDATE
19 EVENTS
23 IN THE NEWS
24 WHO WE ARE
25 LOOKING FORWARD: 2022
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LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
Despite a challenging year,
SODA Foundation continues to
grow in 2021 thanks to the
dedication of our community,
members, supporters, and partners.
In the past year, the Open Data Framework
project developers added many features
ranging from heterogeneous storage monitor-
ing and observability to hybrid/multicloud
storage tiering. The team released Hawaii,
Isabela, Jerba, and Kalpeni in 2021, and added
Lamu at the beginning of the year. To acceler-
ate development and facilitate adoption, the
Open Data Framework will be split into 3
smaller projects moving forward – Terra for
SDS control, Delfin for storage monitoring, and
Strato for multicloud data management. We
Steven Tan are also adding 2 projects based on guidance
VP & CTO Cloud Solution Storage - Futurewei
from the End User Advisory Committee and
SODA Foundation Chair Technical Oversight Committee – Kahu for
container data management and Como for
multicloud data lake.
In 2021, we launched the SODA Eco Project
THE POWER OF initiative to foster cross-projects collaboration.
LinStor, Cortx, Zenko, and OpenEBS joined the
OPEN COLLABORATION launch with KubeEdge joining subsequently.
AND OPEN INNOVATION Together, the SODA projects and the Eco
projects form the first SODA Data & Storage
Landscape which we hope will provide end
users a starting point for their new projects,
and end to end solutions for their operational
challenges.
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important issues and help us set directions for
the community in 2022 which include:
· assisting end users with adoption of projects
SODA Foundation was
through POC’s
founded with the mission · engaging vendors and end user to tackle
to help end users tackle challenges together
· promoting cross-projects collaboration with
their data and storage
partner communities
challenges. We discovered · building a more comprehensive and integrated
ecosystem
many end users are
· providing stronger support for the developer
curious about open source community
and are open to exploring
SODACON 2021: Data & Storage Matters, Virtual
and experimenting. To
hosted 54 presentations and over 700 attendees.
that end, the more expe- This year, we are planning SODACON 2022: The
Data & Storage Forum in Yokohama, Japan at the
rienced members of the
end of the year so that the community can meet
EUAC together with the in-person. In addition, we will be kicking off the
support of the SODA com- year with our first hackathon, SODACODE 2022:
The Data & Storage Hackathon (Virtual) from
munity share and help
February through May.
others with training, POC,
SODA is committed to building an inclusive open
deployment, etc.
source ecosystem to advance the data and
storage industry. As we begin the new year, we
welcome you to participate in our community
and experience the benefits of SODA open
collaboration and open innovation.
The 2021 Data & Storage Trends Survey and We are grateful to have you with us on this
Report completed successfully thanks to the journey.
Linux Foundation Research team and our
survey partners. The report provided insights
into data and storage technology trends, end Steven Tan
VP & CTO Cloud Solution - Storage, Futurewei
user challenges and plans, vendor open
Chair, SODA Foundation
source priorities, as well as how and where
SODA can bring value to the community and
industry. These findings let us focus on the
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SODA GOVERNING BOARD
Steven Tan, Chair Yuji Yazawa, Vice-Chair Xin Zhong Rakesh Jain
Futurewei Toyota Motor Corporation China Unicom IBM
Shinya Hamano Kei Kusunoki Anjaneya "Reddy" Chagam
Fujitsu NTT Communications Intel
The SODA Foundation has an End
User Advisory Committee, where a
Yoshiyo Eto number of POCs join and run the
Fujitsu; community to improve their own
Linux Foundation Fellow; multi-vendor storage operations
SODA Board Advisor and expand their business.
I have been working in open source with applications could be safely applied to the trading systems of the
to the Business Critical Computing Market for over 20 Tokyo Stock Exchange and Megabank customers.
years.
Since then, I have been involved in the management
In early 2000, my goal was to apply open source of trend-setting open source organizations such as
software to mission-critical systems. My team worked OpenDaylight, OpenStack, and CNCF, as well as in the
in the communities to enhance the functionality and development of features and quality enhancements
quality of Linux kernel and a large number of in the community required by my customers.
fundamental libraries such as glibc, so that they
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There are several ways to get involved in open source software:
Participate in a project as a board member and direct the group activities. I could lead a large develop-
ment team and directly implement the features that my customers need in the open source communities.
The scale of the source code my team has contributed in the past is world-class, and its development
activities can be described as "Creating an open source project" rather than "Contributing source code to
an open source project”.
You could manage your investment according to the size of your business or the level of demand for open
source projects. For example, reporting to the community any open source software issues you encounter
during product development.
The SODA Foundation was set up by storage Pinpointing operational inconveniences and
vendors as a functional layer to abstract contributing to the open source community are
multi-vendor storage operation and access. very important community development activities.
Storage vendors took the lead in development; This process expands on the open source develop-
data center operators and service providers, who ment model advocated by the Linux Foundation.
struggled with multi-vendor storage solutions,
had opportunities to point out many inconvenient As open source software becomes the core of
aspects of their daily operations. Soon a small end social systems, we anticipate strong growth of the
user community formed officially and members SODA Foundation in the community, with a
met regularly to steer the project development of development process that rapidly incorporates
SODA Foundation. feedback from the end user community and the
partner ecosystem, even in increasingly complex IT
Data center operators and service providers platform environments such as Hybrid clouds and
pointed out specific missing functions. We were Multi-clouds.
able to clarify the missing functions through POCs
and invited them to participate in the functional
evaluation in the Beta program. So far, many
functions such as multi-tenant functions have PART
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not limited to writing and submitting
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expand their business. User
Po c Code
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SODA MEMBERS
SODA Foundation exists to enable organizations to collaborate and pool resources to support the SODA
project community.
The Foundation provides an open, collaborative, and neutral home for project stakeholders to coordinate
their development and community investments in the SODA ecosystem.
PR E MI ER ME MBE RS
G E N E RA L ME MBE RS
S UPP O RT E R S A SSO CI ATE ME MB ERS
We're eager to contribute Collaboration between adjacent
to the SODA Foundation. communities working on open
The technical and infrastructure is essential to deliver
community momentum integrated solutions that can be
is impressive. Seagate's safely deployed in production. The
participation can have a innovative data storage solutions
deep impact on the developed at SODA Foundation are
future of data storage an important part of this landsca-
and management, both pe, so we are excited to join as an
for our customers and associate member of SODA
the industry at large. Foundation, and we are excited
Mike Moritzkat, Thierry Carrez, that SODA Foundation joins as
President of Seagate General Manager an associate member of the
Government Solutions OpenInfra Foundation OpenInfra Foundation.
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END USER ADVISORY
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SODA is an end-user driven foundation. End users drive roadmap requirements, provide user cases, test and
provide feedback, and guide opportunities for data and storage technologies.
The SODA End User Advisory Committee meets regularly and provides guidance to the Board and TOC. The
organizations represented in the EUAC manage some of the biggest data in the world.
Cosimo Rossetti Yusuke Sato Tomoko Kondo Wim Jacobs Wei Rao Zhan Shu
Vodafone Yahoo! JAPAN Softbank KPN China Railway China Construction Bank
Fintech
Katsumi Kaneda Shinya Tsunematsu Fangchen Sun Michiharu Nakazawa Kei Kusunoki
Internet Initiative Japan GMO Pepabo China Unicom Sakura Internet NTT Communications
Yuji Yazawa
Principal Engineer & Group Manager
Toyota Motor Corporation
SODA EUAC Chair
The mission of SODA End User Advisory Committee Yahoo! JAPAN to enhance their service offering and
(EUAC) is to assist and support the SODA community provide different levels of storage access for data
in its objectives by providing technical and strategic center service customers.
guidance to tackle real-world storage challenges.
Many features in SODA releases originated from end Thanks to the efficiency and hard work by the SODA
users in the SODA community, EUAC to be precise. developer community, the feature requirement was
accepted, developed, tested, and delivered in a short
Yahoo! JAPAN, one of the members from EUAC, period of time. The storage service plan has been
provided specific requirements to SODA Multi-cloud announced as a part of SODA 1.4.0 Jerba release.
during Q1 2021. SODA Community prioritized these Yahoo! JAPAN team has since taken this release and
requirements and added them to the roadmap. One completed a successful trial in their data center. As
of the key feature requirements was for abstracting this report is being written, Yahoo! JAPAN is also
the backend storage to different storage service plans considering deploying Jerba release in their data
for the users. Based on the tenant and service level, center and utilizing the storage service plan feature
the storage attributes can be configured as different for their internal departments.
service plans. This feature, once developed, will allow
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Vinod Eswaraprasad Sheng Lin Wu Hiroki Kimura Masanori Itoh Yusuf Yildiz
Wipro / SNIA ProphetStor Fujitsu Toyota Motor Corporation LinBit
Fangchen Sun Sanil Kumar D. Kiran Mova Prashant Mishra Xin Zhong
China Unicom Huawei Technologies MayaData Click2Cloud Inc. China Unicom
Rakesh Jain Kei Kusunoki
STSM and Researcher Technology Development
for Cloud, IoT, Analytics Storage Engineer
IBM Research NTT Communications
SODA TOC Co-Chair SODA TOC Co-Chair
As the world fought the coronavirus and its effects in Delfin:
2021, our development efforts had been significantly Developed heterogeneous storage performance
challenged. Like many other software development monitoring framework with support of top storage
communities, we had to do everything in Zoom, even vendor drivers. The framework is capable of monitor-
in discussions that typically required in-depth ing resources, alerts, and performance. It has an
face-to-face whiteboarding, such as architecture and exporter interface to connect to clients.
user experience. Despite the challenges, the SODA
community completed four releases: Isabela, Jerba,
Kalpeni, and Lamu. Through these four releases, we
developed three main features significantly :
Kubernetes Support:
SODA CSI plugin with CSI plug and play feature where
any CSI driver can work through a single CSI plugin
Multicloud: without any modification to the CSI driver.
Provides unified multicloud data management In 2021 we welcomed YIG and DAOS to the SODA
framework with file, block, and object support for top Foundation as Incubator Projects. Furthermore,
cloud vendors. It also supports data archival and we collaborated with four Eco Projects: LINSTOR,
storage service plans with multi-tenancy that we had OpenEBS, Zenko, and CORTX. In 2022, we plan to set
discussed with service provider members. up working groups for each of these projects to
deepen the discussion and technically deliver value to
end users.
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ARCH I TECTU R E WO R KGR O U P
U PDATE
Nicolas Trangez Pankaj Deshpande Yusuf Yildiz Kiran Mova Yusuke Sato Noel McLoughlin
Scality IBM LinBit MayaData Yahoo! JAPAN GBE Technologies
Sanil Kumar
Chief Architect - Huawei
SODA Architecture WG Lead
First of all, thanks to all the SODA community KubeEdge). This has given us new ideas for collabora-
members for their continued support during these tive solutions, especially in Multicloud and Container
testing times. During the last one year, we were able Data Management.
to design and develop some of the key features for
Storage Performance Monitoring, Multicloud, and Another valuable contribution from our community
Kubernetes, and released it across four releases - experts was toward the first SODA Data and Storage
Isabela, Jerba, Kalpeni, and Lamu. Survey & Report in collaboration with Linux Founda-
tion. The feedback provided deeper insights to
The SODA Architecture Work Group, along with the challenges and key trends in data and storage.
project leads, maintainers and contributors, worked
very closely to achieve this. We received very good In 2022, we are planning for deeper engagement with
inputs and support from our end users through our project partners and community experts to design
SODA EUAC (End User Advisory Committee) viz., NTT, and develop customer centric solutions, especially in
Yahoo! JAPAN, SoftBank, and Toyota. Our team Container Data Management, Observability, and Data
worked with SODA partners including Wipro to Lake. We hope to build solutions to solve some of the
initiate specific use case projects like Smart Archival. real customer pain points in these areas.
We streamlined and conducted regular SODA Design Once again thanks a lot for your invaluable support to
Meetings. That helped to refine and support our SODA Foundation.
development efforts immensely, with constructive
feedback from the experts in our community. We are Looking forward to a brighter 2022.
also happy to see some of the real deployments and
Stay Safe and Positive.
trials for SODA solutions by Yahoo! JAPAN, Huawei,
and NTT.
We started collaborating with our partner projects
through SODA Incubator (YIG, DAOS) and SODA ECO
Projects (OpenEBS, Zenko, LinStor, CORTX, and
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SODA PROJECTS UPDATES
SODA O PE N DATA F RA MEWO RK
The SODA Open Data Framework is an open source unified autonomous data framework that connects
data end to end.
The SODA community published 4 releases on a quarterly basis in 2021: Hawaii, Isabela, Jerba, Kalpeni.
Moving to 2022, we will be moving to a 6 month cadence with the Lamu release in Jan 2022, and K release
in the 2nd half of 2022.
any storage, any platform, any cloud
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Performance anomaly Improved storage Plug-in any CSI driver Enhanced
detection monitoring Multiple CSI drivers inK8S heterogeneous
Performance Monitor NAS Container data performance metric
visualization with performance proteiner (Restic) collection framework
Grafana HA support with Application consistent Host group mapping
Enhanced cloud file multi -cloud sanpshot cloud Filesystem metrics
shares for AWS, GCP, Cold storage Multi-cloud storage SPM driver
Azure, Huawei CSI plug-n-play with tiering enhancements
Enhanced block AWS more drivers Storage performance Visualization enhanced
More storage support - More on-prem and monitoring with more Multi-cloud user level
IBM SVC, HDS VSP. cloud backends metrics metrics storage tiering fixes
EMC VNX Bucket management for
all cloud backends
HAWAII V 1.2 ISABLELA V1.3 JERBA V 1.4 KALPENI V 1.5
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SODA INCUBATOR PROJECTS
YIG PROJECT
YIG is a massively scalable object storage in production
use at China Unicom storing about 4PB of data. Benefits
include avoiding unnecessary data movement due to
rebalancing, and avoiding performance degradation
when new hosts or disks are added to Ceph clusters.
DAOS PROJECT
The Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS)
is an open-source software-defined object store designed
from the ground up for massively distributed Non Volatile
Memory (NVM).
DAOS presents a key-value storage interface and provides
features such as transactional non-blocking I/O, advanced
data protection with self-healing on top of commodity hard-
ware, end-to-end data integrity, fine-grained data control
and elastic storage to optimize performance and cost.
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S O DA ECO PR OJECTS
We launched the SODA Eco Project initiative in 2021. The SODA Eco Initiative helps advance and deepen project
integration with the SODA ODF and introduces them to the end user community. The program accepts projects
by Linux Foundation and other open source foundations, as well as independent projects by enterprises.
The Eco Initiative accepted 4 projects in 2021. LINSTOR by LINBIT, CORTX by Seagate, OpenEBS a CNCF project,
and Zenko by Scality
Ken Claffey Philipp Reisner
SVP of the systems business CEO & Founder
Seagate LINBIT
“As the world’s leading provider of mass-capacity “As more organizations leverage containers to build
storage, Seagate is dedicated to helping the world modern applications, traditional methods of
store as much of its valuable data as possible, CORTX implementing storage are no longer sufficient,
serves this mission by bringing enter prisequality LINSTOR brings much-needed storage flexibility into
object storage software optimized for masscapacity both containerized and virtualized environments.
into the open source world. As a SODA Eco Project LINSTOR gives organizations confidence in the
member, we’ll benefit from the partnerships and reliability of their infrastructures. Accepted as a
collective wisdom of this community and ensure SODA Eco Project is a valuable asset for LINBIT as
CORTX is best suited for the changing data needs of we always believe in open source and have been
our world.” contributing for more than 20 years.”
Kiran Mova
Chief Architect Paul Speciale
MayaData & Founder Chief Product Officer
of The OpenEBS Project Scality
“OpenEBS is the leading Open Source Container “Scality recognized a growing customer need several
Attached Storage solution for running Stateful years ago to manage data across an increasingly wide
Workloads in Kubernetes. OpenEBS has a collection range of cloud services and on-premises storage
of several engines that provide local and replicated systems. This led us to introduce our Zenko multi-cloud
block storage volumes to applications. OpenEBS is controller software as an open source project back in
Kubernetes and cloud native and very easy to setup 2017. It has now been used by customers and software
and run. A perfect solution for teams that want developers worldwide to solve problems in cloud data
agility and scale from their infrastructure. At archiving, business continuance, multi-cloud services
MayaData, we have been a supporter of SODA from in DataOps, AI/ML and analytics. As a believer,
the start as we envision SODA to be complementary publisher and user of open source software, we are
to OpenEBS and instrumental in building Data happy to have Zenko as a SODA Eco Project to help
Management architecture for the future.” our community create the next wave of cloud data
management solutions.”
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2021 DATA & STORAGE
TRENDS REPORT
We trust that the actionable
insights from this effort will help
Hilary Carter the community to make better
VP Research
decisions, improve products, and
The Linux Foundation establish new technical directions.
With the COVID-19 pandemic still very much a native, and the ubiquity of software-defined
reality in 2021, it became clear that remote storage, are in line with general trends. You can
workforces and workflows would be the rule find the full report here.
and not the exception. It also became clear that
the demand for digital technologies was on the Of particular interest to the SODA Foundation
rise to facilitate new workplace dynamics, community is the fact that the majority of
particularly those that pertained to the data and vendors are now prioritizing open source, even
storage landscape. At Linux Foundation though traditionally, every vendor builds its
Research, what we wanted to determine was to ecosystem to achieve maximum lock-in. The
what extent would these new dynamics factor business rationale behind that is understand-
into data and storage technologies, and what able, and at times necessary for security,
was the role of open source within it? interoperability, and other objectives. The
proliferation of open source technologies,
To answer this question, LF Research was however - such as Kubernetes - tests the limits
pleased to join forces with SODA Foundation to of proprietary ecosystems, forcing vendors to
conduct a comprehensive study on the state of rethink and embrace open source as a business
data and storage technologies in the context of strategy. This does not necessarily mean
the global pandemic and current market reali- vendors are opening their tightly guarded
ties. Collectively, we were fortunate to have the ecosystems. Instead, it means that they typically
support of a number of partners in this endeav- engage open source as a means to extend their
or, including Cloud Native Computing Founda- ecosystems. Regardless, more vendor involve-
tion, Storage Networking Industry Association, ment in open source ultimately benefits end
Open Infrastructure Foundation, Storage Perfor- users.
mance Council, Japan Data Storage Forum,
China Open Source Cloud League, and Mulan We trust that this research will help guide the
Open Source Community. SODA Foundation members and contributors
alike as we collectively navigate important
We fielded a worldwide survey from April to industry dynamics. We trust that the actionable
August, 2021 to explore the trends in existing insights from this effort will help the community
and emerging data and storage technologies, to make better decisions, improve products, and
specifically as they relate to the data center, the establish new technical directions.
cloud, and the edge. The findings reveal the top
data and storage challenges faced by users,
including the fact that tape is not dead! The Hilary Carter
results also reveal vendor product strategies, VP Research
cloud storage use cases, and important priorities The Linux Foundation
for enterprises in the next 3 years, and beyond.
The research concludes that the rise of cloud
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TR E N DS HI GHLI GHTS
COLLABORATING WITH OPEN SOURCE ECOSYSTEMS
IS A VENDOR PRIORITY
Figure 12: The Importance of Ecosystems
and IT Industry Organizations to Vendors
Rate the importance of the following
in your product strategy.
Sample Size = 98
HOW SODA BRINGS VALUE TO YOUR
ORGANIZATION
Figure 13: How SODA Brings Value
to Your Organization
Rate how SODA can bring value to you
and your organization.
Sample Size = 203
WHERE SODA CAN BRING VALUE TO
YOUR ORGANIZATION
Figure 14: Rate the Importance of
Potential SODA Development Work
Rate which SODA development work
would benefit you.
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AM E R I CA S & E UR OPE O UTREACH CO MMI T TEE
Thomas Kozlowsk Brian Hellman Trevor Phillipe Lawrence Lai Brad King
Leadi, LinBit LinBit MayaData Chair, Futurewei Scality
C H I N A O UTRE ACH CO MMI T TEE
Shane Wang, Lead Pierre Zhang, Lead Xion Lai Chen Jing Jiaming Pan Zengzan Liu
Intel China Unicom China Construction Huawei eHualu Scutech
Bank Fintech Technologies
JA PA N O UT RE ACH CO MMI T TEE
Masahiro Itoh, Lead Shinya Hamano, Lead Kei Kusunoki LYusuke Sato Ichiro Shimada
B-Mark Fujitsu NTT Communications Yahoo! JAPAN Sony
I N D I A O UTRE ACH CO MMI T TEE
Sai Nath, Lead Pradipta Banerjee, Lead Uma Mukkara Vivek Sridhar Ashit Kumar
Wipro Technologies IBM MayaData Microsoft Huawei Technologies
Rupal Shirpurkar Ayshwarya Baburan
Click2Cloud Kristu Jayanti College, BangaloreSODA
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Lawrence Lai Shane Wang
SODA Outreach Co-Chair, SODA Outreach Co-Chair,
Futurewei. Intel
SODA’s Outreach Committee (OC) comprises During the pandemic, we continued to build
senior technical and business leaders from opportunities for SODA developers and users to
SODA’s member companies. The committee’s discuss technical problems face to face, and stay
mission is to evangelize the SODA project to connected with each other through regular onsite
industries and the global open source community, meetups in some of the regions. Jointly with the
as well as to grow the SODA community by Mulan community in China, we hosted an onsite
recruiting and signing up more members. storage meetup in Beijing, China in May 2021,
where we delivered 5 presentations and attracted
2021 has been an exciting yet challenging year for 100 attendees. We also built strong relationships
SODA as we welcomed new members to the with the Mulan community and CESI, and are
community including Seagate as general member, exploring ways to partner and build synergy with
OpenInfra Foundation, and Kristu Jayanti College other communities and organizations.
as associate members.
In 2021, a new storage project initiated by Intel,
In partnership with the Linux Foundation DAOS (Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage),
Research, SNIA, CNCF, OIF, JDSF, SPC, CESI, Mulan joined our SODA Incubator. DAOS is the founda-
Project, and CCICI, we successfully conducted tion of the Intel exascale storage stack and an
surveys and published the 2021 Data & Storage open source software-defined scale-out object
Trends Report. We have received significant store, with focus on storage in cloud computing.
interest and inquiries about our report findings In incubation, we aim to help build the ecosystem
from the industry and open source communities. and expand the community supporting DAOS.
We had a successful SODACON Global 2021 virtual We are starting the new year with active prepara-
conference, which spanned two days with over tion for SODACODE 2022, our first data and
700 attendees and nearly 90 guest speakers from storage hackathon. To date we have received
all over the world. This event attracted more than applications from seven projects. A primary goal
20 sponsors and partners. We also sponsored of our Outreach Committee in 2022 is to identify
numerous open source and storage related and recruit more community members, including
events such as KubeCON North America, cloud service providers, end-users, data and
KubeConN China, Open Source Summit Japan, storage management related open source
and SNIDA SDC. projects, and standard organizations.
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EVENTS
SODACO N 202 1
This year, we welcomed a record-breaking number of 1,081 registrants and 700+ attendees from 25
countries! We hosted 5 tracks, 9 keynotes, and 4 panel discussions with over 50 sessions presented
by 80+ industry experts. And we had 20+ sponsors and partners. Presentation decks are available for
viewing on Github.
THIS YEAR, WE
WELCOMED A
RECORD-BREAKING SODAC ON
NUMBER OF
2021 Event
1081 registrants Summary
DATA AND STORAGE MATTERS
700+ attendees
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from Euro pe
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We hosted Ind i a
countries
5 tracks C hi na
J a pa n
9 Keynotes 4 panel discussions
54 by 85 from 53
sessions industry world class
with presented experts organizations
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And we had 20+ sponsors and partners
SPONSO R S A ND PART NE R S
SODACON 202 1 K EYNOT E SE SSIO NS
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EVENTS WE WERE AT
In 2021, SODA Foundation sponsored and participated in virtual and on-site events organized by
Linux Foundation, Linux APAC, Open Source community in India, and SNIA in North America, India,
Japan, and China. SODA Foundation Chairman Steven Tan and members from the Governing
board, End-user advisory committee, Technical Oversight Committee and Architecture workgroup
participated and presented.
SODA Foundation
Virtual Booth
Online Event 2021
Storage Developer
Conference
SODA Foundation
Presentation
Online Event 2021
Storage Developer
Conference
SODA Foundation
Virtual Booth
N.A. 2021
KubeCon
+ CloudNativeCon
SODA Foundation
On-site Booth
N.A. 2021
KubeCon
+ CloudNativeCon
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EVENTS WE WERE AT
SODA Foundation SODA Foundation SODA Foundation
Presentation On-site Booth On-site Booth
China 2021 China 2021 Seattle 2021
The Global Opensource The Global Opensource Open Source Summit
Technology Conference Technology Conference + Embedded
SODA Foundation
Vitual Booth
Japan 2021
Open Source Summit
SODA Foundation
Virtual Booth
China 2021
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
+ Open Source Summit
SODA Foundation
Presentation
Japan 2021
Open Source Summit
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IN THE NEWS
SNIA ThinkIT OSChina
SODA Foundation and オープンソースのストレ The Open Source
SNIA to Advance ージ管理ソフトウェア Foundations You
Education for Data and SODAがオンラインカン Should Know
Storage ファレンスを開催
Management
NETEASE- Container Storage
Technology Journal Performance
Council
SODA: Build SODA Foundation
SPC Joins SODA
A Data & Extends Open Source
Foundation Industry
Storage Ecosystem Storage Reach to K8s
Survey
CISION PR Newswire OpenInfra Blog�
SODA Foundation Announces Open Infrastructure Foundation
New Data Framework Release, Welcomes Boston University, CERN,
Ecosystem Initiative and Data Open Source Business Alliance, OW2
and Storage Insights at First-Ever and SODA Foundation as Inaugural
SODACON Global Group of Associate Members
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SODA Forum Tokyo, 2019
WHO WE ARE
soda
foundation
SODA Foundation is an open-source project under Linux Foundation that aims to establish an open, unified, and
autonomous data management framework for data mobility from the edge, to core, to cloud.
SODA Foundation , conceived and officially launched on June 29, 2020, which is a transformation of the Linux
Foundation OpenSDS technical project. OpenSDS was initiated by Dell EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Huawei, Intel, and
Vodafone to address the challenges of storage integration in the cloud era. As OpenSDS grew, there were
increasing requests to expand its scope to cover data mobility, data protection, data security, data analytics, etc.,
in order to meet the changing needs of technology trends such as cloud-native, edge computing, IoT, big data,
machine learning, and more.
To foster an ecosystem of
open-source data
management and storage
To offer a neutral forum for
software for data autonomy
cross-project collaboration
and integration
To provide end-users
quality end-to-end solutions
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Looking
Forward
2022
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THE SODA LANDSCAPE
Edge Computing Mgt
As data continues growing at a relentless pace, the need for data security, protection, mobility, and
scalability together with a cohesive data management strategy is more important now.
The rise of cloud native and the increasing need to connect and manage data anywhere means that vendor
neutral open source projects are required in many solutions.
The SODA Data & Storage Trends 2021 survey revealed majority of end users participate in open source
projects, and that vendors view collaborating in open source a priority. It is imperative that vendors work
together with end users to build an ecosystem of projects and solutions that not only interoperate, but also
deliver the performance, capabilities, automation and intelligence that the cloud native era requires.
SODA is building an ecosystem to enable end-to-end data and storage solutions from edge to core to cloud.
The SODA Landscape comprises the Core projects TERRA SDS controller, DELFIN storage monitor, STRATO
multicloud data management; the Incubated projects YIG and DAOS, and the Eco projects LINSTOR, ZENKO,
OPENEBS, CORTX, and KUBEEDGE. The SODA Landscape continues to evolve and is expanding to include
two new projects – COMO for multicloud data lake and KAHU for container data management.
We welcome your participation in SODA projects and help build an open ecosystem to advance the data and
storage industry.
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SODA EVENTS
SODACODE 2022 Virtual
Hackathon March 01-31
Demo Days May 24-25
Coding is an art for programmers, open source is a great opportunity for us to learn and grow this art.
SODACODE 2022 is the first coding event organized by SODA Foundation, targeting programmers from all
levels ranging from beginner to advanced. We aim to host an all-inclusive event that allows all levels of
hackers to express their creativity. We aim to provide an exploratory environment where disruption,
innovation and creative ideas will be brought to life.
Hackers at all levels will enjoy this educational and fun event. It will be a wonderful opportunity to network,
collaborate with other global talents, and find out the latest innovations from SODA and other open
source communities in data and storage management, Cloud Native, AI/ML, IoT and others.
SODACON 2022
Yokohama December
YO KO H A M A 202 2
SODACON Global 2022, by SODA Foundation,
is a technical conference that brings together
industry leaders, developers, and end-users
to collaborate and share projects, innovation,
and best practices for data management and
storage in the era of cloud native, IoT, big
data, machine learning, and more.
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EVENTS WE WILL BE AT
KubeCON Europe KubeCON N.A
(May 16-20, Valencia, Spain) (October 24-28, Detroit, Michigan)
Open Source Summit Europe Open Source Summit, N.A
(September 13-16, Dublin, Ireland) (June 21-24, Austin, TX)
Open Source Summit Japan The Linux Foundation Member Summit
(Dec 5-6, Yokohama) (Nov 8-10, Lake Tahoe, CA)
SNIA Storage Developer Conference
(TBD)
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SODA AMBASSADORS
SODA Ambassadors help open-source enthusiasts know better about SODA Foundation. We welcome
any industrial bloggers, influencers, or evangelists who are interested in:
Promoting data and storage projects and technology
Educating a local community on the SODA mission
Contributing to SODA projects
Ambassadors get a chance to participate/ host meet-
ups, give talks, blog, or perform activities that spread
the awareness of SODA in North America, Europe, India,
Japan, and China.
Apply to be an ambassador
https://sodafoundation.io/ambassadors/
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