What is SODA Foundation?

SODA Foundation is an open source project under Linux Foundation that aims to foster an ecosystem of open source data management and storage software for data autonomy. SODA Foundation offers a neutral forum for cross-projects collaboration and integration and provides end users quality end-to-end solutions.

JOIN

What is SODA?

SODA is an open source unified autonomous data management framework for data mobility from edge to core to cloud.

Current Focus

DATA MOBILITY

SODA enables seamless data tiering, replication, migration, and archiving to the cloud using a common S3 interface with multi-cloud support for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and other local S3 object storage such as Ceph

DATA PROTECTION

SODA uses snapshots to provide efficient data protection and instant recovery. Using data protection policies, snapshots can be programmed to be taken at intervals, and can be replicated to different storage, or to the cloud for disaster recovery

DATA LIFECYCLE

SODA combines different storage resources on-premise, and across multiple clouds to build tiers. Using data lifecycle policies, data that meets the lifecycle conditions is moved to the next tier, allowing data to be stored efficiently throughout their lifecycle 

UNIFIED STORAGE PLATFORM

SODA abstracts multi-vendor storage and offers block, file and object storage  services, monitoring, and more that work natively with Kubernetes, VMWare, and OpenStack. SODA can be easily extended to support other application frameworks.

CLOUD NATIVE STORAGE

SODA provides persistent storage to Kubernetes stateful workloads with the SODA CSI driver. SODA consolidates multi-vendor storage backends into storage pools for dynamic provisioning. We are working on allowing cloud native storage to be plugged into SODA with their CSI drivers so , reducing complex multi-driver management

DATA GOVERNANCE

SODA is working to offer a common data governance framework from edge to core to cloud to meet the needs for data regulations. This framework will provide, access control, data security, data retention, key management, etc. for data at rest and data in flight. We are looking for data governance and security experts to join us in this effort.

DATA ORCHESTRATION

SODA is working to support data orchestration for IoT, big data, machine learning and other popular application frameworks, across different backend storage, and multiple clouds with a distributed data store.  We welcome developers who are interested In working on this project.

DATA ENERGY

Data energy is a new area of focus which tries to profile, analyze and optimize the energy consumption for data management. We envision data energy to be a key ROI and a competitive parameter for data solutions. SODA community has identified this for  standardization to bring about energy efficient data solutions.

Events

OSS Austin

Virtual Experience: Open for All – Anytime. Anywhere.

June 29 – July 2

 More
OSS Austin

Open Source Summit North America - Austin, Texas, USA

June 22 – June 24

 More
KubeCon North America, Boston, Massachusetts

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, Boston, Massachusetts

Nov 17 – Nov 20

 More
All Upcoming Events

Quotes

"Providing a neutral forum where both vendors and end users can contribute to building and integrating data management solutions for mobility and autonomy is our goal. These new investments and our expanding scope will help us support a growing community of open source data professionals who are pushing the envelope on these technologies."


Steven Tan, Chairman, SODA Foundation and VP & CTO of Cloud Solution at Futurewei.

SODA Foundation
2020-03-16T12:44:58-07:00
"Providing a neutral forum where both vendors and end users can contribute to building and integrating data management solutions for mobility and autonomy is our goal. These new investments and our expanding scope will help us support a growing community of open source data professionals who are pushing the envelope on these technologies." Steven Tan, Chairman, SODA Foundation and VP & CTO of Cloud Solution at Futurewei.

"Managing the data coming from heterogeneous sources and formats is an interesting problem along with the regulatory requirements. SODA foundation attempts to address these challenges in an open manner which would help companies build reliable AI enabled solutions."


Rakesh Jain, SODA Foundation Board member and Researcher & Architect at IBM Corporation.

SODA Foundation
2020-03-16T12:46:46-07:00
"Managing the data coming from heterogeneous sources and formats is an interesting problem along with the regulatory requirements. SODA foundation attempts to address these challenges in an open manner which would help companies build reliable AI enabled solutions." Rakesh Jain, SODA Foundation Board member and Researcher & Architect at IBM Corporation.

“CCB Fintech is a financial technology subsidiary of China Construction Bank. We are always interested in the open source community contribution and it's our honor to join SODA. Glad to see its breakthroughs in multi-cloud environments and heterogeneous storage management. We will work with SODA to solve the container storage management challenges in cloud-native scenarios from now on. Hope to see more pioneers of the financial industry join SODA and join us to improve the innovation and development of open source technology in the global financial area.”


Zhan Shu, CCB Fintech Technology Platform Department General Manager.

SODA Foundation
2020-03-16T12:50:51-07:00
“CCB Fintech is a financial technology subsidiary of China Construction Bank. We are always interested in the open source community contribution and it's our honor to join SODA. Glad to see its breakthroughs in multi-cloud environments and heterogeneous storage management. We will work with SODA to solve the container storage management challenges in cloud-native scenarios from now on. Hope to see more pioneers of the financial industry join SODA and join us to improve the innovation and development of open source technology in the global financial area.” Zhan Shu, CCB Fintech Technology Platform Department General Manager.

“It’s a great honor for China Unicom Wo Cloud to join the SODA community. We think the openness of SODA project is great. In fact, we have been very active in this project in the previous year. We contributed the core code of our object storage project named YIG to the community. On Wo Cloud Summit 2019, we have witnessed the launch of SODA in China with many other partners. In the future, we will bring more friends into this community and make more innovations together.”


Zhong Xin, CEO, China Unicom Wo Cloud.

SODA Foundation
2020-03-16T13:06:45-07:00
“It’s a great honor for China Unicom Wo Cloud to join the SODA community. We think the openness of SODA project is great. In fact, we have been very active in this project in the previous year. We contributed the core code of our object storage project named YIG to the community. On Wo Cloud Summit 2019, we have witnessed the launch of SODA in China with many other partners. In the future, we will bring more friends into this community and make more innovations together.” Zhong Xin, CEO, China Unicom Wo Cloud.

“FUJITSU LIMITED has been supporting society as an IT company. Over the years, we have been providing comprehensive storage solutions. Now, as we are transforming into a DX company, we are looking to support our customers to transform their business model and to help them to create new businesses by modernizing systems and leveraging cloud native technologies. SODA is a powerful solution for simplifying storage management that has been very complex for many years, and enabling ties to the cloud. FUJITSU believes that SODA will accelerate the accomplishment of its mission and has been contributing to the ecosystem since OpenSDS, the direct predecessor of SODA.”

Shinya Hamano, manager, development department, infrastructure software division, Fujitsu.


SODA Foundation
2020-03-16T13:07:46-07:00
[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" column_margin="default" column_direction="default" column_direction_tablet="default" column_direction_phone="default" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" row_border_radius="none" row_border_radius_applies="bg" overlay_strength="0.3" gradient_direction="left_to_right" shape_divider_position="bottom" bg_image_animation="none"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_tablet="inherit" column_padding_phone="inherit" column_padding_position="all" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" column_shadow="none" column_border_radius="none" column_link_target="_self" gradient_direction="left_to_right" overlay_strength="0.3" width="1/1" tablet_width_inherit="default" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default" column_border_width="none" column_border_style="solid" bg_image_animation="none"][vc_column_text] “FUJITSU LIMITED has been supporting society as an IT company. Over the years, we have been providing comprehensive storage solutions. Now, as we are transforming into a DX company, we are looking to support our customers to transform their business model and to help them to create new businesses by modernizing systems and leveraging cloud native technologies. SODA is a powerful solution for simplifying storage management that has been very complex for many years, and enabling ties to the cloud. FUJITSU believes that SODA will accelerate the accomplishment of its mission and has been contributing to the ecosystem since OpenSDS, the direct predecessor of SODA.” Shinya Hamano, manager, development department, infrastructure software division, Fujitsu. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

“Storage silos in our services make a barrier among customers and the services. The barriers like individual storage software/API have hindered not only us from managing our services, but also customers from utilizing their data across the services. We're expecting SODA to help service providers and customers overcome the barrier by open data management platform”

Kei Kusunoki, Storage Architect, Technology Development, NTT Communications.

SODA Foundation
2020-03-16T13:08:34-07:00
[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" column_margin="default" column_direction="default" column_direction_tablet="default" column_direction_phone="default" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" row_border_radius="none" row_border_radius_applies="bg" overlay_strength="0.3" gradient_direction="left_to_right" shape_divider_position="bottom" bg_image_animation="none"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_tablet="inherit" column_padding_phone="inherit" column_padding_position="all" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" column_shadow="none" column_border_radius="none" column_link_target="_self" gradient_direction="left_to_right" overlay_strength="0.3" width="1/1" tablet_width_inherit="default" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default" column_border_width="none" column_border_style="solid" bg_image_animation="none"][vc_column_text] “Storage silos in our services make a barrier among customers and the services. The barriers like individual storage software/API have hindered not only us from managing our services, but also customers from utilizing their data across the services. We're expecting SODA to help service providers and customers overcome the barrier by open data management platform” Kei Kusunoki, Storage Architect, Technology Development, NTT Communications. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

“As a cold data archive system provider, we are excited about joining the SODA. We have just released the third generation of Optical Disc Archive, and we believe that integrating it into the SODA system will provide more diverse and rich value to this community and its customers. We are looking forward to collaborating with other SODA members to create a full data lifecycle management platform in the aim of solving data/storage management challenges,”


Mikio Kita, VP, Sony Corporation, Senior General Manager of Media Solution Business Div. Sony Imaging Products & Solutions Inc.

SODA Foundation
2020-03-16T13:10:26-07:00
“As a cold data archive system provider, we are excited about joining the SODA. We have just released the third generation of Optical Disc Archive, and we believe that integrating it into the SODA system will provide more diverse and rich value to this community and its customers. We are looking forward to collaborating with other SODA members to create a full data lifecycle management platform in the aim of solving data/storage management challenges,” Mikio Kita, VP, Sony Corporation, Senior General Manager of Media Solution Business Div. Sony Imaging Products & Solutions Inc.

“Connected vehicles on a street would generate significant volume of data, and they are widely spread in many locations. Managing those data and data storage is going to be a key challenge for us to get a variety of benefits from those data. We expect that SODA Foundation would be the best place to seek the solution of our future issues, and we would be happy to collaborate in the Foundation with many people who have the same issues.”


Kenichi Murata, Project General Manager of Connected Strategy, Toyota Motor Corporation.

SODA Foundation
2020-03-16T13:11:54-07:00
“Connected vehicles on a street would generate significant volume of data, and they are widely spread in many locations. Managing those data and data storage is going to be a key challenge for us to get a variety of benefits from those data. We expect that SODA Foundation would be the best place to seek the solution of our future issues, and we would be happy to collaborate in the Foundation with many people who have the same issues.” Kenichi Murata, Project General Manager of Connected Strategy, Toyota Motor Corporation.

"As our services continue to grow, data is getting bigger day by day. We are facing the challenge of managing storage systems more efficiently. We strongly endorse the purpose of SODA to provide a standardized API between multiple storage backends and multiple cloud systems. We believe that SODA can help reduce storage complexity."


Yusuke Sato, Storage Architect, Yahoo! JAPAN.

SODA Foundation
2020-03-16T13:12:58-07:00
"As our services continue to grow, data is getting bigger day by day. We are facing the challenge of managing storage systems more efficiently. We strongly endorse the purpose of SODA to provide a standardized API between multiple storage backends and multiple cloud systems. We believe that SODA can help reduce storage complexity." Yusuke Sato, Storage Architect, Yahoo! JAPAN.
0
0
SODA Foundation

Supporters

All Members
Become a Member