Louis Zuckerman, CTO of Picture Marketing, is working on not one, but two interesting projects for Gluster. Zuckerman is working on a Java filesystem backed by GlusterFS and Java Native Interface (JNI) bindings for GlusterFS’s native library (libgfapi). Zuckerman says he’s using GlusterFS with storing media for Picture Marketing. “Brand ambassadors use our mobile apps …Read more
Cutting Edge, a visual effects company that’s worked on films such as The Great Gatsby and I, Frankenstein, had outgrown its NAS storage system and was in search of a way to boost its storage capacity and performance in the face of several large upcoming projects. The Australia-based firm turned to GlusterFS as an alternative …Read more
Theron Conrey writes about using: BitTorrent Sync as Geo-Replication for Storage We got a chance to talk about this idea at Linuxcon. I’m not entirely convinced there aren’t some problem edge cases with this solution, but I think it will … Continue reading →
Rock the Vote needed a way to manage the fast growth of the data handled by its Web-based voter registration application. The organization turned to GlusterFS replicated volumes to allow for filesystem size upgrades on its virtualized hosting infrastructure without incurring downtime. Over its twenty-one year history, Rock the Vote has registered more than five […]