Open Source Leader Red Hat to Acquire Gluster

Data Center Knowledge (Oct 4 2011) Cloud Computing , Storage

1. Red Hat (RHT), provider of enterprise open source solutions, announced it will pay $136 million in cash to acquire Gluster, Inc., a privately-held provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions for standardizing the management of unstructured data. Founded six years ago, Gluster simplified storage using open source software and commodity hardware. Clients such as Pandora, Box.net and Samsung use Gluster to manage large volumes of data in storage. Gluster’s main product 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 without compromising on cost, performance and manageability. (Read Full Article)

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