Gluster at FAST

Gluster

2016-02-25

We hosted a small meetup/birds of a feather session at USENIX’s FAST conference. FAST is a conference that focuses on File And Storage Technologies in Santa Clara, California.

Vijay Bellur, Gluster Project Lead did a short talk on Gluster.Next, our ongoing architectural evolution in Gluster to improve scaling and enable new use cases like like storage as a service, storage for containers and hyperconvergence.

what is Gluster.Next?
how are we building Gluster.Next –
- DHTv2, NSR, Glusterd 2.0, Heketi, Brick multiplexing, Quality of Service
why are we building Gluster.Next
when is this planned for release
- 3.8 slated for May/June, 4.0 for December

Integrations with other projects like OpenShift, OpenStack and oVirt were also highlighted.

Slides are included: Gluster.Next Feb 2016

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