EMC's ViPR Slithers Into Open Source
EMC on Wednesday announced it will release its commercial ViPR software storage controller technology as an open source project called "CoprHD." The ViPR software controller puts the control functionality and the data services into separate operational planes, allowing different data services to be layered onto a set of storage hardware products and cloud storage. Project CoprHD is EMC's first foray into the open source marketing model. Any success it has will boost EMC's commercial development as well.