Future Of GlusterFS – From Open Core to Open Source
In October of 2011, Red Hat (previous CloudAve coverage) announced the acquisition of Gluster, the company behind GlusterFS (previous CloudAve coverage) open source distributed storage solution. Even though Red Hat is a company based on open source philosophy, there were questions about what is in store for GlusterFS under Red Hat. Last week Red Hat [...]
Gluster Adds Hadoop Support To Offer An Open Source Petabyte Storage Alternative
Last week Gluster (previous CloudAve coverage), provider of open source storage solutions, announced the beta version of their next release with support for open source Hadoop. With this announcement, Gluster is targeting to be the open source alternative to proprietary storage solutions in the petabyte age. GlusterFS will use standard filesystem APIs available in Hadoop [...]
Gluster Introduces Scale-Out NAS Virtual Storage Appliances For VMware and AWS
Gluster (see previous CloudAve coverage), the open source storage vendor, announced the availability Scale-Out NAS Virtual appliance for VMware and Amazon Web Services. GlusterFS has been used by some of the hot startups like Pandora and Box.Net and their open source nature makes them more attractive to many companies, big and small. Gluster Virtual Storage [...]
Gluster Platform Adds Elasticity And Automation Making It Cloud Ready
Gluster (see our previous coverage), the open source storage platform vendor, today announced a new version of their storage platform, Gluster 3.1, that adds elasticity and automation needed for today’s dynamic cloud world. According to Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, co-founder and CTO of Gluster, “The new capabilities in Gluster Storage Platform allow us to better [...]
Acquia Uses Gluster Storage For Drupal Gardens SaaS Offering
Acquia, the company behind commercial Drupal offerings, has selected Gluster open source storage platform for their hosting needs. Gluster storage platform offers an easy way to manage data on commodity servers within a single namespace. This is the kind of storage solutions SaaS startups want to have as they offer good performance at a much [...]
