Here’s a secret that most server administrrators know, but few outside the datacenter and server room know: Most big data stores, and the cloud’s petabytes of storage, are all based on Linux.

Amazon Web Services S3 storage and the like may look simple but behind the interface there’s a complicated web of storage devices, services, and file systems based on Linux. In recognition of this, The Linux Foundation, has announced a new conference, Vault.

Vault: The Linux Foundation’s new storage-focused tradeshow. More>