The Big News: OpenSMS

GTC is a proud sponsor of the Open Systems Managed Storage (OpenSMS) project.  This open source framework for storage management is poised to revolutionize tiered storage management in open systems environments.  OpenSMS is comprised of OpenTMS and OpenHSM.  OpenHSM, developed by GTC,  is a peer to peer, policy driven storage management framework for file-based data.  Data in filesystem tiers can be replicated in quasi real time to other filesystem tiers or to tape.  Each filesystem tier may run its own policy subsystem with replication to other tiers.

Data written to tape is handled by OpenTMS, a full-function tape management system contributed to the open source community by StorageTek, and maintained by GTC. Formerly known as ReelLibrarian, OpenTMS has  been hardened over more than a decade of production deployment in Global 2000 companies.  OpenTMS provides the full abstraction layer necessary to use tape either as a backup medium or as an active repository in a tiered storage system.  Visit the OpenHSM site on Sourceforge for more information.

Groves Technology Corporation specializes in planning and execution of multi-platform connectivity strategies for high end data storage and networking devices, subsystems and appliances.  With many years of experience supporting  advanced storage subsystems and protocols on all major operating system platforms, we are uniquely qualified to develop and support device drivers and kernel software modules to enable the advanced features of complex storage and networking subsystems (examples).  We can substantially reduce the host-integration risks of introducing new storage subsystem functionality.

Our team has provided integration/driver software to most of the major storage vendors (customers). John Groves previously founded Open Microsystems, where he built a reputation as the leading supplier of high performance device drivers and software integration to the storage and storage area networking industries.  Trusted by major storage hardware vendors since the early '90s, the Groves team has solved interfacing problems and supplied critical device drivers and other host software components for all of the major operating systems and storage device classes in use today.