It’s a good day to be in the storage software business, it seems. IDC just released a new report showing that the storage software business will grow by 7.8% in 2011, with $13.8 billion in revenue. This is due to “pent up demand” an…
You may have noticed our press release that we joined the Open Virtualization Alliance. So what is the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA)? According to their web site: The Open Virtualization Alliance’s goal is to help: Increase overall awareness…
This week, we announced that Brightcove is using its GlusterFS-based storage solution to power video for tens of thousands of websites. Brightcove’s Video Cloud online video platform is the platform of choice for media companies, businesses, and orga…
Looking for a high performance, scale-out NAS file system? Or are you a new user of GlusterFS and want to learn more? Join us for a webinar on Thursday June 30, for an introduction and review of the GlusterFS architecture and key functionalities. Learn…
For customers and community members on the 3.1.x series, we recommend that you upgrade to the latest, GlusterFS 3.1.5, available today. Here are some issues fixed in this release: Bug 2294: Fixed the issue occurred during creating and sharing of volume…
From the Between the Lines blog over at ZD, came this prediction on the public cloud market: Public cloud computing services will be a $72.9 billion market in 2015, up from $21.5 billion in 2010, according to IDC. That growth equates to a compound annu…
If you’re like me and wondered just how much “cloud computing” resonates with an enterprise IT audience, you would have found an answer in New York City last week. The answer is a resounding confirmation that cloud computing is no lon…
One of the things we’ve been really excited about is the prospect of hosting user groups at our office and seeding many more of them around the globe. We’re thrilled to be hosting our very first GlusterFS meetup on June 30, here at Gluster …
Everyone likes to receive awards and positive recognition. But when you win not one but two awards – one of them a “best of show” award – at a prestigious industry event, you can’t help but be thrilled and feel like you’ve hit the big time. Gluster has been awarded Best of Show for the …Read more
Here’s yet another video from Citrix Synergy interviewing Tom Trainer. Tom’s getting a bit too popular – pretty soon, he’ll be the one demanding green M & M’s in the dressing room: Citrix Synergy 2011 – Gluster from VMblog on Vimeo.
This is a great interview of our own Tom Trainer, giving a lot of his background and expertise in the storage industry. We’re lucky to have Tom – learn more about him and Gluster:
We don’t have a link to the official announcement yet, but Gluster has won the award for “Best in Show” at Citrix Synergy in San Francisco. Until we get the official link, you’ll have to make do with our co-founders celebrating the victory: Celebration at Gluster Headquarters
Gluster has recently announced new features that deliver major advancements to our highly available scale-out, open source storage solutions for public and private cloud environments. These new features provide additional replication capabilities, quota management, and advanced monitoring. We’d like to invite you to a webinar on Wednesday, May 25 to discuss these new features with …Read more
Hello Community, I have 4 VMs running Gluster 3.1 to form a single storage volume but one of them cannot boot after a week of shutdown. It keeps running Gluster 3.1 status bar and then freeze and become black. I cannot ping it and Gluster platform management console cannot connect to it too. We have …Read more
We announced exciting news today for customers and community members who are interested in Public Cloud Storage. Today, we announced that we will make up to 7 days of Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Block Storage (EBS) usage free to people who are interested in trying Gluster’s Amazon Machine Image (AMI). …Read more
Bio-IT World Conference and Expo April 12-14, 2011. CTO AB Periasamy will present in Track 3 “Cloud” April 14th at 12:15 pm World Trade Center Boston, MA http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/
One of the questions that I come across in IRC and other places often is how to obtain a list of gluster volumes that can be mounted from a client machine. NFS provides showmount which helps in figuring out the list of exports from a server amongst other things. GlusterFS currently does not have an […]
Please complete a quick survey to provide feedback on: a)How Users Are Using Gluster b)What we are doing well and what we are not doing well c)Suggestions for enhancing community support d)Feedback on futures and priorities. The survey is 22 questions long (all optional). The survey is designed to be anonymous, but if you choose …Read more
Been wanting to get back to blogging for a while. Over the past year or so, I have frequently been inhibited by what can be expressed in 140 characters. Hence this new start. Let me explore how far this attempt goes!
In this contributed article posted to VMblog, Gluster CTO, AB Periasamy, predicts the future of virtualization for 2011. Specifically he predicts that the cloud will redefine operating systems, stating “In 2011, the operating system (OS) as we currently know it will be categorized as a legacy system. Virtualization and the cloud will cause fundamental changes …Read more