This 3-minute “how-to” video walks you through the Gluster Storage Platform installation process. For demonstration purposes we’ll show you how to install and configure a two-node storage cluster. For more information visit our product page, or access the main documentation.
Boston-based Partners is a non-profit health care system and teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Brent Richter, Partners’ corporate manager for enterprise research infrastructure and services, needed a central storage repository for data generated by about 40 research teams across several hospitals in the Partners system. The data would have to be secure and kept …Read more
Project Fondue is a team of experienced web developers who are passionate about making the web a better place for all. Check out their latest blog post and take a look at what software they used to build and set-up a redundant static cluster and how Gluster was used to cleanly share assets between servers.
More data means more storage — and more headaches. Jack discusses enterprise storage challenges with James Powell of Enterprise Systems Journal. We look at today’s storage challenges, the impact of open source storage solutions and server virtualization, and the storage trends to watch this year. Click here for the article: Enterprise Systems Journal
Tony Asaro from Contemplating IT blogs about Gluster including a Q&A with Jack and Kamal from the Gluster team. “Gluster is a startup that is providing an open source file system. The most important thing to me about Gluster and why it matters is their go-to-market strategy. They basically have the Red Hat model giving …Read more
We’ve already received some favorable press about the platform release. Network World, 12/8/09 “Gluster extends file system into Storage Platform, VM failover” Virtual Strategy Magazine, 12/8/09 “Storage on a Stick” podcast interview with Jack O’Brien, Senior Director of Marketing at Gluster TMCnet, 12/8/09 “Gluster Storage Platform launches” Wikibon, 12/9/09 “And the world spawns another file …Read more
You have probably noticed we relaunched the Gluster website last month, changing the look and feel, navigation, and a substantial amount of the content. We also formally changed the name of the company to Gluster from Z Research and created a new logo (the ant didn’t disappear for good – more on that shortly). We …Read more
Thanks to everyone who has shared their Gluster deployment information with the community. We recently reorganized the ‘Who is Using’ information into a table that is much easier to navigate. We also integrated an interactive map that provides a global view of Gluster deployments. We encourage you to check it out, see how others are …Read more
Gluster is evolving from a standalone file system to a complete storage OS. Gluster Platform integrates GlusterFS with an operating system layer, management GUI, and installer. You can start with two bare servers and provision a few hundred terabytes of clustered storage in less than 30 minutes. The core file system is also being upgraded …Read more