<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>FYI... please forward wherever appropriate.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div>JM<br><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Karin Bakis" <kbakis@redhat.com><br><b>To: </b>"John Mark Walker" <johnmark@redhat.com><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, August 6, 2013 12:04:18 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>News: Gluster Developer Community Surges 300 Percent, Ships GlusterFS 3.4 Open Software-defined Storage Distro<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Gluster Developer Community Surges by Nearly 300
Percent, Ships GlusterFS 3.4 Open Software-defined Storage
Distribution</b></span>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">August 6, 2013</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="background:
transparent">by The Red Hat Storage Team </span> </p>
<br>
Congratulations to the Gluster Community! In addition to
shipping GlusterFS 3.4, the latest release of the open source,
scale-out storage system, the Gluster Community has
significantly increased its number of projects and contributing
developers in just three short months. Since May 2013, the
Gluster Community has grown from seven projects for the
GlusterFS distribution to more than 30 incubating open
software-defined storage projects for big data, demonstrating
nearly 300 percent growth in the number of developers. <br>
<br>
As an open source community, the Gluster Community was created
to drive open software-defined storage. The growth was enabled
in part by recent important developments in the Gluster
Community, including the introduction of Gluster Community Forge
and the formation of The Gluster Community Board that includes
eight leading organizations and technology providers in the
storage and big data markets. The Gluster Community Forge is a
collaborative development web site where like-minded developers
and organizations can incubate, develop and collaborate on new
open software-defined storage projects. The Gluster Community
Forge also helps developers in individual projects independently
manage their roadmaps, development, and implementation. <br>
<br>
Now available for download, GlusterFS 3.4 offers KVM/QEMU
integration, higher performance, and cloud enhancements to
provide high reliability, scalability, and data mobility to
enterprise users and application developers worldwide. <br>
<br>
For virtualization, GlusterFS 3.4 features include QEMU
integration with libgfapi, a new Block Device translator, and
general performance enhancements for VM image storage for KVM. A
new virtualization management user interface, oVirt 3.2, is
available with its RESTful API gateway for integration with
additional management tools.<br>
<br>
For security, GlusterFS 3.4 now supports Server Quorum, SSL
encryption, and a multi-threaded Glusterd that also added
operating version support. Quorum enables split-brain prevention
and resolution for replicated volumes. Security features include
support for SSL-based encryption of ‘in-flight’ data, and NFSv3
ACLs, WORM (write once, read many) volume types. The
multi-threaded Glusterd allows for better scaling and higher
performance, and operating version support for Glusterd enables
easier, rolling upgrades and using multiple versions of
GlusterFS.<br>
<br>
The Gluster Community also recently announced that GlusterFS is
OpenStack-ready. This is primarily due to the work started in
2012 with the OpenStack community focused on how OpenStack cloud
developers and operators can use GlusterFS to support the three
primary OpenStack storage modes. Instructions for using
GlusterFS with OpenStack are now documented for the native
OpenStack storage interfaces Swift, Cinder, and Glance. This
allows OpenStack application developers and service providers to
gain the benefits of Gluster’s scale-out storage software.<br>
<br>
Its an exciting time for the Gluster Community. Again, kudos to
the Gluster Community for shipping GlusterFS 3.4 while it
greatly expands its project scope, allowing participants to
continue to drive open source sofware-defined storage
innovation. <br>
<br>
<span style="color: #000080; font-family:
Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span style="font-weight: normal"><span style="background: transparent">Here's how you
can get more background:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> <br>
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<ul>
<li> <span style="color: #00000a; font-family:
Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: transparent">For
more information on the Gluster Community, visit </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: transparent"><a href="http://www.gluster.org/" target="_blank">www.gluster.org/</a>
</span></span></span> </li>
<li> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: transparent">To
download </span></span></span><span style="color:
#00000a; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: transparent">GlusterFS
3.4, visit </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.4/3.4.0/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.4/3.4.0/</span></a></span><span style="color: #00000a; font-family:
Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: transparent">.
</span></span></span> </li>
<li> <span style="color: #00000a; font-family:
Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: transparent">To
download GlusterFS 3.4 release notes, visit </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/release-3.4/doc/release-notes/3.4.0.md" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/release-3.4/doc/release-notes/3.4.0.md</span></a></span><span style="color: #00000a; font-family:
Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: transparent">.
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Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background:
transparent">T</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: transparent">o i</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080; font-family:
Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span style="background: transparent">nteract with
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