[mark_l_watson]

Personally, I find the OpenStack Object Storage component more interesting than OpenStack Compute. I like the idea and implementation of S3 for saving important data. Similarly, the same sort of lazy replication of EBS just makes life easier.

I think that there will be a real sweet spot for smaller organizations who would like an internal system like S3 that offers robust data security with using really cheap disk drives and servers.

Hopefully OpenStack Object Storage will have good support for multi-datacenter replication.

[mark_l_watson]

I did downloaded it, looked at the source, but did not install it. OpenStack Object Storage looks like a very interesting project.