Announcing the DAOS Foundation: Open Source Storage Innovation
The DAOS Foundation is now live under the Linux Foundation. The founding members are Argonne National Laboratory, Enakta Labs, Google Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Intel. The goal is straightforward: give DAOS proper open-source governance and a home that can outlast any single company's roadmap.
For context, DAOS (Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage) is the high-performance storage system behind the top IO500 results globally. It works by eliminating the data and metadata bottlenecks baked into traditional POSIX-based HPC storage. Fully distributed key-value architecture, user-space I/O, no kernel overhead. The Foundation's job is to keep that project healthy and growing.
What this means for us
Enakta Labs is a founding member, and DAOS is the engine underneath the Enakta Storage Platform. Being part of the Foundation means we're contributing directly to the open source core while building our commercial product on top. It keeps us close to the upstream development and gives us a voice in where the project goes next.
Get involved
The Foundation is open to developers, researchers, and organisations who want to contribute or just use DAOS in their own environments. A few starting points:
- The GitHub repository has all the code and documentation
- Community discussions happen on the mailing lists and Slack channels
- If you've deployed DAOS, we'd love to hear about your experience
For the full announcement, see the Linux Foundation press release.