Storware and FishOS Unite: Enterprise-Grade Backup for OpenStack Environments

Managing backup and recovery in complex OpenStack environments has long been a challenge for enterprises and service providers. Today, that challenge gets significantly easier.

Sardina Systems and Storware, a European leader in enterprise data backup and recovery, have formed a technical alliance that brings powerful, API-driven backup capabilities directly to FishOS OpenStack-powered environments. This partnership enables organizations to protect their entire cloud infrastructure—from virtual machines to application data—without the complexity of traditional agent-based solutions.

Why This Partnership Matters

In large-scale OpenStack deployments with dozens of components and multi-tenant workloads, snapshots alone often fall short. Organizations need comprehensive backup solutions that protect not just data, but the integrity of the entire cloud ecosystem—configurations, metadata, and user information included.

The FishOS-Storware integration addresses this need head-on, offering service providers and enterprises a unified platform for complete cloud protection and backup-as-a-service delivery.

Two Proven Platforms, One Powerful Solution

FishOS by Sardina Systems

FishOS is an award-winning OpenStack-based cloud management platform that delivers scalable, automated, and intelligent cloud infrastructure for enterprises and service providers. Known for its stability and zero-downtime operations, FishOS integrates OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Ceph into a unified solution that maximizes resource efficiency while maintaining reliability.

Storware Enterprise Backup

Founded in 2013 in Poland, Storware has built a reputation for stable, versatile enterprise backup and recovery systems. Their solution supports virtual machines, containers, cloud environments, and a wide range of storage platforms—making it an ideal complement to OpenStack deployments.

How the Integration Works

Storware strengthens FishOS OpenStack-based environments by providing comprehensive backup and recovery at both the hypervisor and storage layers. The integration connects directly to native OpenStack APIs, eliminating the need for agent-based setups while automatically discovering workloads.

The system supports full, incremental, and differential backups, protecting not just virtual machines and volumes, but also application data and storage objects. Built for flexibility, it leverages Ceph—the most common storage backend for OpenStack—and can send backups to multiple secondary destinations, including NFS, S3, tape, or other cloud environments.

“In large OpenStack environments with dozens of components and multi-tenant workloads, snapshots alone might not be enough. A full backup ensures the integrity of the entire cloud ecosystem, from configurations and metadata to user data. The technical alliance with Storware expands capabilities for FishOS users, providing greater fault tolerance and enhanced compliance with corporate security and recovery requirements.”

— Kenneth Tan, Executive Director at Sardina Systems

Key Benefits for Organizations

• Unified VM and Data Protection: Safeguard all virtual machines, application data, and storage objects across FishOS environments with a single, consolidated solution.
• API-Driven Integration: Backup functionality integrates seamlessly into FishOS via APIs, dramatically reducing operational complexity compared to agent-based solutions.
• Backup-as-a-Service Capability: Service providers can leverage the combined platform to offer VM-level backup services directly to clients, creating new revenue streams.
• Enterprise-Grade Reliability: FishOS ensures stable, predictable cloud operations while Storware adds powerful backup capabilities—creating a fully integrated, production-ready solution.
• Flexible Storage Options: Store backups on Ceph, NFS, S3, tape, or other cloud environments for long-term retention and compliance requirements.
• Optimized for Production OpenStack: Ideal for telecommunications providers, private clouds, and production OpenStack deployments requiring multi-tenant workload protection and native Ceph integration.

“By integrating with FishOS, we’re enabling OpenStack users to benefit from a unified, API-driven backup solution that ensures business continuity and operational efficiency. Together, we empower organizations to protect their workloads with confidence—no matter how complex their cloud environments are.”

— Paweł Mączka, CEO at Storware

Who Benefits from This Alliance?

Service Providers: Deliver backup-as-a-service to customers, expand service portfolios, and differentiate in competitive markets.

Enterprises with Private Clouds: Achieve comprehensive data protection without the overhead of managing separate backup infrastructure.

Telecommunications Operators: Protect mission-critical workloads with enterprise-grade backup integrated into existing OpenStack deployments.

Organizations with Compliance Requirements: Meet regulatory and corporate security standards with flexible backup retention and recovery options.

Ready to Simplify Your Backup Strategy?

The technical alliance between Sardina Systems and Storware brings next-generation backup capabilities to FishOS, helping organizations protect their most critical assets while reducing operational overhead.

Learn how FishOS and Storware together can streamline your cloud operations and strengthen your data protection. Contact Sardina Systems today.

About the Companies

About Sardina Systems

Sardina Systems is a global operations management software developer and vendor, headquartered in the UK with a local presence worldwide. FishOS®, Sardina’s core product, is a cutting-edge cloud management solution that integrates OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Ceph. It provides smart, efficient, and highly scalable cloud infrastructure with zero-downtime operations. Sardina’s technology helps companies and non-profit organizations maximize their resources while maintaining reliability and performance.

About Storware

Storware is a European vendor of enterprise data backup and recovery systems, established in 2013 in Warsaw, Poland. The company provides stable and highly integrable software designed to protect virtual machines, containers, cloud environments, and applications. Storware enables corporate data to be stored in multiple backup destinations, including file systems, object storage, and the innovative Storware Cloud—a flexible Storage-as-a-Service solution for simple, affordable backup storage. The company also offers pre-configured Storware Backup Appliances for rapid, out-of-the-box deployment. Its products are available worldwide through a strong distribution and partner network.