June 28th, 2012

Anatomy Of An Open Source Acquisition: From GlusterFS To Red Hat Storage

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Gluster was founded in 2005 to productize their eponymous global distributed filesystem, GlusterFS. As an all-software solution for storing immense quantities of distributed and replicated data, it quickly caught the eye of many working with big data including Red Hat, who purchased the company late last year.

Yesterday at Red Hat Summit, Red Hat officially announced their branded solution… → Read More

May 18th, 2010

Former Plaxo CEO Ben Golub Joins Gluster, An Open Source Storage Platform Startup

Back in March, long-time Plaxo President and CEO Ben Golub left the social address book company after five years. Today, he’s announcing his next move — he’s taking the reins at Gluster, a startup that offers an open source software solution for storing very large amounts of unstructured data. Golub will replace current CEO Hitesh Chellani who is transitioning to become VP of… → Read More