As you may have already heard, the GlusterFS 3.5 release planning cycle is well underway. The deadline is this Thursday, August 14. If you have a feature or patchset you’ve been working on and want to include it in the GlusterFS 3.5 release, please update the page and add your feature proposal to the list. […]
GlusterFS 3.4 is Here!
We are very pleased to inform you that GlusterFS 3.4 has now hit GA! This marks an incredible milestone for the Gluster community, and pushes GlusterFS into exciting new directions, including virtual block storage, OpenStack integration and a lot more. -> Download here. Changes Of Note Improvements for Virtual Machine Image Storage A number of […]
Gluster Community Day at Portland – July 23
We have an amazing community day scheduled in Portland, OR, on July 23. If you’re in town for OSCON, swing by – we’ll be at the Mission Theater, which is close to the MAX for easy access. Here are just a few of the highlights: Theron Conrey will talk about the integration points between OpenStack […]
The Summer of Gluster is Here!
I wanted to take a moment and share all the things that are going on in the Gluster Community. It really has been an amazing year, and we’re only halfway through. Here’s a recap for those of you watching from home: Launched the Gluster Community Forge in early May – http://forge.gluster.org/ as of now, there […]
GlusterFS portability on full view – ARM 64
Today at Red Hat Summit, Jon Masters, Red Hat’s chief ARM architect, demonstrated GlusterFS replicated on two ARM 64 servers, streaming a video. This marks the first successful demo of a distributed filesystem running on ARM 64. Video and podcast to come soon.
Get Yer 3.4 Beta – Open Community FTW
As the GlusterFest winds down today, I wanted to write a few words about GlusterFS 3.4 and the beta that was just released yesterday. You may have noticed the news release from Red Hat: The Red Hat Storage team would like to congratulate the Gluster Community on the beta release of GlusterFS 3.4. With new […]
GlusterFS is Ready for OpenStack
Amidst the madness of the OpenStack Summit a couple of weeks ago, you could be forgiven for not seeing a Red Hat announcement about GlusterFS being “OpenStack-ready”. You may wonder, what exactly do we mean by “OpenStack-ready”? The first thing to understand is that storage in OpenStack is multifaceted. It could mean applications storing objects […]
Introducing the Gluster Community Forge
Today, I’m happy to finally unveil something that we’ve been working on for a couple of months now: the Gluster Community Forge. We noticed some time ago that there were several projects out on the internet that extended GlusterFS, and we thought it would be nice to give them a home, where users could find [...]
The Death of Proprietary Software
Whenever I give talks at conferences, there’s always one particular topic I make sure to bring up. I’ll ask the audience, “Quick, name a new proprietary enterprise software product to have gained ubiquity in the data center over the last 12 months.” I’ll wait a few seconds, and then, “Ok, 24 months.” After a brief [...]
The Business of Open Source
As the Gluster Community Lead, I deal with quite a number of moving parts on a daily basis: mailing lists, web sites, groups of volunteers, workshop schedules, budgets and team members. As we go through our community restructuring (more detail on that Real Soon Now), it occurred to me that managing a large open source… Continue reading The Business of Open Source
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