The term "big data," is getting thrown around a lot these days, and in certain circles it is threatening to overtake "cloud" as the most overused and misused term in IT.
Interestingly, some of the large, traditional storage vendors…
By now you may have heard our announcement that GlusterFS 3.3 will be able to serve as a scale-out data store for Apache Hadoop. This is one area where a solution has been sorely needed, and we’re happy to provide one. Here’s the relevant p…
Expands data access options with addition of open source, scale-out NAS and object-based file access for Hadoop deployments Sunnyvale, Calif. – August 23, 2011 – Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions, today annou…
Leading storage provider chosen for its open source, software-only, scale-out NAS storage solution for on-premise, virtual, public and private cloud environments Sunnyvale, Calif. – August 22, 2011 – Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open…
If you’re going to Vancouver for LinuxCon, you’ll have not one but *two* opportunities to see us live and in the flesh. On Thursday, August 18, at 5:15pm, we will be hosting a birds-of-a-feather session to discuss all sorts of fun things: G…
On July 20th we announced and delivered the first beta of GlusterFS 3.3, which featured unified file and object storage. I am excited to give you an update on how things are going with the beta and how we see our customers deploying this innovative f…
Open source expert to present code examples and use cases of storage in OpenStack deployments; BoF on innovative file system GlusterFS VANCOUVER — LinuxCon — August 15, 2011 – Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open source storage soluti…
I just finished reading an intriguing blog post by Alex Williams at Silicon Angle, responding to an earlier blog by Fred Wilson.
The substance of the debate boils down to whether or not the concept of a "file" (as opposed to a directly-addres…
It was with some amusement yesterday and today that we watched the twitters alive with discussion about whether there would be files in the cloud. It all started with Fred Wilson’s confusingly-titled blog post “There Will be No Files in the…
Date and time: Wed, Aug 17, 2011 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 18:00 UTC Duration: 1 hour Description: Storage offered at a variety of service levels is a vital resource in any cloud computing or hosted environment. A well-designed, linearly scalable and highly…
During OSCON week, we had the pleasure of sponsoring and presenting at ScaleOutCamp PDX, which was held in the posh new headquarters of Puppet Labs. Below is the video from our presentation. As you can see, Tom and I had some fun with this one: You can…
Leading supplier of electronic signature solutions uses Gluster cloud storage to maintain high SLAs and deliver top-rate performance Sunnyvale, Calif. – August 4, 2011 – Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open source storage for public and…
At times, I get nostalgic for the good old days – a simpler time when the Olympics were in Beijing, WALL-E was the number one movie at the box office, the Phillies won the World Series, and the network storage world could be neatly divided into file an…
Provides alternate VM storage options and first scale-out unified file and object storage solution for OpenStack deployments Portland, OR – OSCON 2011, booth 613, July 27, 2011 – Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open source storage solut…
The Gluster Connector for OpenStack is a triumph of community. Watching OpenStack grow as quickly as it has, changing the industry as it has, is breathtaking to watch. To be able to participate in that community and move it that much more forward is a …
With the unstoppable growth of medical imagery, many health care providers are realizing that trying to do a data migration to a new storage system every few years is becoming next to impossible. Some providers I spoke with say that unless they shift t…
We have an incredible week coming up at OSCON! It’s always a joy to come back to Portland and see how this conference has grown by leaps and bounds. It starts tonight, July 25, with our birds-of-a-feather cum meetup taking place at 9pm in the con…
Sunnyvale, Calif. – July 25, 2011 – Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open source storage for public and private clouds, today announced that Lori Budin, VP of Channels and Partnerships, has been recognized by Everything Channel’s CRN M…
Today we announced our public beta program for GlusterFS 3.3 (download link), and while I’m excited that Gluster continues its cadence of bringing new features to market, I am elated to be able to deliver the next big thing in software-based converg…
Delivers First Software-Only Unified File and Object Storage Technology Sunnyvale, Calif. – July 20, 2011 – Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions, today announced the beta release of GlusterFS 3.3. This latest ve…