Astute Networks is now supporting OpenStack for its Networked Flash appliances. Specifically, Astute is supporting the OpenStack Cinder standard as both an iSCSI target and an NFS server via its ViSX appliance.

The company noted in a statement that the support of the open source public and private cloud computing platform provides customers with a “flexible and cost-effective method for meeting their storage and application performance requirements when deploying infrastructure as a service (IaaS).”

Considering the interest around OpenStack, it’s a smart move by Astute Networks. OpenStack-related business revenue is expected to top $1 billion by 2015, according to 451 Research. The vendor hopes to position itself within that growing market—in particular with its ViSX storage appliance line of products.

“We see that OpenStack is developing significant momentum with the many organizations that understand the tremendous value of this project, and we know that our ViSX appliance will help these organizations capitalize on this value with high performance flash based storage for their private and public cloud initiatives,” said Keith Klarer, founder and vice president of Engineering at Astute Networks, in a prepared statement.

Astute has its eyes on the OpenStack-based virtual desktop (VDI) market, as well in relational database consolidation. Both are applications in which users can see immediate and meaningful return on investment, Klarer noted.

“There is also significant interest in our flash storage when implementing object database systems in environments that need high object access performance, or low access latency,” he said.

The company expects its new OpenStack support to benefit cloud services providers and IaaS partners. How … astute.