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Red Hat Gains Gluster To Better Manage Explosion Of Big Data

October 4, 2011 by Toon Vanagt Leave a Comment

Red Hat, Inc. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gluster, Inc., a leading provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions for standardizing the management of unstructured data. With this $136 million cash acquisition, Red Hat tries to define a new baseline for how enterprise IT can better manages the explosion of big data, whether deployed on-premise or spanning into the public cloud. This helps Red Hat expanding into a critical part of enterprise infrastructure, enabling it to deliver open storage solutions that protect customer investments as they approach the new era of computing.

“The explosion of big data and the new paradigm of cloud computing are converging, forcing IT to re-think storage investments that are cost-effective, manageable and scale for the future,” said Brian Stevens, CTO and vice president, Worldwide Engineering at Red Hat. “Our customers are looking for software-based storage solutions that manage their file-based data on-premise, in the cloud and bridging between the two. With unstructured data growth (such as log files, virtual machines, email, audio, video and documents), the 90’s paradigm of forcing everything into expensive, single-system DBMS residing on an internal corporate SAN has become unwieldy and impractical.”. Feel free to dive into the full take from Brian Steven on Gluster.

Founded in 2005, Gluster’s goal was to simplify storage using open source software and commodity hardware. The heart of Gluster is GlusterFS, a software-only, scale-out storage system. It allows enterprises to combine large numbers of commodity storage and compute resources into a high-performance, centrally-managed and globally-accessible storage pool. By combining commodity economics with a scale-out approach, customers can deploy abundant storage without compromising on cost, performance and manageability. Gluster has emerged as an innovative open source leader, relied upon by companies such as Pandora, Box.net and Samsung to efficiently manage large volumes of data.

“We are extremely pleased to be joining Red Hat,” said AB Periasamy, co-founder and CTO of Gluster. “We believe this is a perfect combination of technologies, strategies and cultures and is a great development for our customers, employees, investors and community.  Gluster started off with a goal to be the Red Hat of storage. Now, we are the storage of Red Hat.”
“Enterprises and service providers have struggled to manage their rapidly expanding unstructured data stores with conventional storage systems,” said Henry Baltazar, senior analyst of The 451 Group. “The scale out storage technology and expertise Red Hat is gaining from the acquisition of Gluster will serve as a powerful foundation for future public, private and hybrid storage clouds.”

In September 2008, Red Hat already acquired Qumranet, Inc. including its Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) platform and SolidICE offering, a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which together presented a comprehensive virtualization platform for enterprise customers. With the addition of Gluster to KVM Red Hat now seems to aim at offering a cloud platform too. Interesting times ahead in the crowded cloud market.

Red Hat has agreed to acquire Gluster, a privately-held company, for approximately $136 million in cash. As part of the transaction, Red Hat will also assume unvested Gluster equity outstanding on the closing date and issue certain equity retention incentives.  The transaction is expected to close in October, subject to customary closing conditions.

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Release: GlusterFS 3.3 (Beta)

July 22, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Gluster, provider of open source storage solutions, has announced the beta release of GlusterFS 3.3.

This latest version of Gluster’s file system provides a system for data storage that enables users to access the same data as an object and as a file, simplifying management and controlling storage costs.

Available on-premise, for virtual machines, and in public and private cloud environments, Gluster’s software-only storage technology delivers the first true unified file and object data storage.

GlusterFS 3.3 allows users to access data as objects from an Amazon S3 compatible interface and access files from a NAS interface including NFS and CIFS.

In addition to decreasing cost and making it faster and easier to access object data, GlusterFS also delivers scalability, high availability and replication of object storage. F

or infrastructure as a service offerings, GlusterFS 3.3 enables organizations to build their own Amazon-like storage offering for their customers.

Enterprises can use GlusterFS to accelerate the process of preparing applications for the cloud, simplify new application development for cloud computing environments, and backup from data center unified file and object to Amazon Web Services (AWS) or within the private cloud.

Version 3.3 of GlusterFS is currently in beta and is available now.

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Gluster Names Rob Bearden To Its Board

July 21, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Gluster, provider of open source storage solutions, has announced that Rob Bearden has joined the company’s board of directors. Gluster provides open source storage solutions for public, private and hybrid clouds.

Throughout his 20-year career, Bearden has made significant contributions in the open source community.

He is currently president and COO of Hortonworks, company focused on adoption and maturation of the open source Apache Hadoop project. Previously, he served as president and chief operating officer of SpringSource until its acquisition by VMware, as COO of JBOSS through its acquisition by RedHat, and as chairman of the board of Pentaho.

Bearden will support Gluster’s continued growth and will provide guidance to help further develop its open source community.

Prior to SpringSource, Bearden served as entrepreneur in residence at Benchmark Capital, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley.

He was also COO for OpenSpan, a desktop integration software provider.

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Gluster Appoints Mike Backlund As SVP Of Sales

June 14, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Gluster, provider of open source storage solutions for private and public clouds, today announced Mike Backlund has joined the company as senior vice president of sales. He will be responsible for driving both domestic and international sales.

Prior to joining Gluster, Backlund was senior vice president of worldwide sales at Baynote, a provider of personalization and digital marketing optimization solutions. During his time at Baynote, Backlund also held the position of interim CEO.

Previously, Backlund was CEO at Quorum Labs. He also held executive sales positions at open source pioneer SpikeSource as well as Computer Associates.

As senior vice president of field operations at Interwoven, Backlund led the company from less than one million to over $200 million in annual revenue and a successful IPO.

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Gluster Hires John Kreisa As Its New VP Of Marketing

May 16, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Gluster, provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions for private and public clouds, last week announced John Kreisa as the company’s new vice president of marketing.

Kreisa brings more than 20 years of experience in building and leading teams in high-growth organizations like Cloudera, MarkLogic and Business Objects.

At Cloudera, provider of Hadoop-based software and services, he was vice president of marketing. During his time there, Kreisa managed all corporate marketing activity including communications, social media and product marketing.

Prior to joining Cloudera, Kreisa worked at MarkLogic, an XML database provider, as director of product marketing and directory of industry solutions.

He earned his bachelor of science degree in computer science from the University of Texas, Austin.

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