Submitted by: Gluster
Published August 20, 2010 ·
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. According to Krishnan Subramanian, this is the kind of storage solutions SaaS startups want to have as they offer
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Submitted by: Gluster
Published August 13, 2010 ·
In this LinuxInsider article, Gluster CTO AB Periasamy discusses the current state of Linux virtualization and provides best practices, focused on storage, aimed at closing the server-storage virtualization gap.
Server virtualization technologies for Linux have advanced at a rapid pace of innovation with VMware (NYSE: VMW) and Citrix (Nasdaq: CTXS) (Xen) initially
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Submitted by: Gluster
Published August 12, 2010 ·
In this EnterpriseStorageForum.com article Drew Robb discusses how Gluster is an open source startup that most people in storage have never heard of. Yet its value proposition could spell trouble for the big boys and potentially send the prices of proprietary hardware crashing down.
He also highlights how Gluster is being harnessed in the
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Published August 12, 2010 ·
Jeff Layton an Enterprise Technologist for HPC at Dell discusses reasons why he thinks GlusterFS is one of the coolest file systems in User Space.
[GlusterFS] has a very unique architecture that allows it to be configured for specific storage requirements and scenarios. It can be used as a high-performance parallel file system, or
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Published July 23, 2010 ·
RackerHacker has a nice blog post / tutorial on deploying Gluster with Rackspace cloud servers or Slicehost (it’s been up for a couple of months but I just came across it). It’s a well written tutorial on setting up a simple HA Gluster configuration with WordPress hosted in a pair of VM’s. Take it away
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Published July 23, 2010 ·
Dear Gluster Community,
Lately we’ve been posting video tutorials related to installation, volume creation, automatic file replication and self healing. If you haven’t seen these videos yet, check out our Resource Center or subscribe to the Gluster YouTube Channel or Gluster SlideShare page for the latest updates.
Now we’re looking for new ideas. What would you like
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Published July 19, 2010 ·
In our latest video Kamal Varma describes how Gluster automatic file replication works under fault conditions and how the system recovers using real time self-healing once the fault has been rectified. In this example we show a replicated volume spanning two storage servers with a single client mounting the volume using the Gluster native client
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Published June 29, 2010 ·
In this latest video tutorial, Kamal Varma, walks through how Gluster automatic file replication works utilizing two storage servers and a single client. Stay tuned for our next video where Kamal will review the self-healing feature in greater detail.
You can check out all of our videos and supplemental materials on the Gluster Resource Center.
Or follow
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Submitted by: Gluster
Published June 22, 2010 ·
This CRN article spotlights 25 of the individuals and teams that looked into the future to design today’s storage industry. These talented individuals and teams have spent years or decades developing their expertise and perfecting the art of storing, recovering, archiving, and protecting data.
Gluster CTO, AB Periasamy, was named as a leading figure of
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Submitted by: Gluster
Published June 11, 2010 ·
In this SDTimes article, Alex Handy describes how big storage is still a big problem. But that Gluster is hoping its open-source, commodity hardware-based NAS solution will entice developers to get more involved in their storage systems.
Gluster has been in development for three years. It combines an open-source file system with
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