New Gluster Community Forge Brings Together Multiple Open Source
Storage Communities and Projects
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that the Gluster Community, a Red
Hat-sponsored community, has extended its charter from a single project
to a multi-project open source community for open software-defined
storage. This expansion addresses increasing interest in full-featured
open software-defined storage solutions and marks another milestone in
the growth of the Gluster Community from a tightly-controlled open core
project to an open source ecosystem with a rapidly growing number of
projects and contributors.
The expanding role played by open source communities in the disruption
of the storage market is expected to fuel the growth of the new Gluster
Community and open software-defined storage. In an IDC Vendor Profile on
Red Hat as a Storage solutions provider, IDC stated, "The
commoditization of storage and the open source storage stack is in
essence a disruptive and unstoppable force that will change the ways of
the traditional storage market dominated by vendors selling proprietary
hardware and software."1
To facilitate this expansion and provide a home for related projects,
the Gluster Community now includes the Gluster Community Forge, a
Gitorious-based collaborative development environment where like-minded
developers and organizations can incubate, develop and collaborate on
new open software defined storage projects. The Gluster Community Forge
aims to accelerate the growth of community-driven innovation around
GlusterFS and greatly enhance developer and user collaboration.
"The innovation taking place right now in the software industry is
around open source projects and ecosystems," said Amanda McPhereson,
vice president of marketing and developer programs, The Linux
Foundation. "The Gluster Community's expansion to support an ecosystem
for software-defined storage is an example of how collaborative
development and open source software can be quickly adapted to address
industry change."
Initial new projects span an increasingly wider range of related storage
projects across manageability, mobility, security, availability,
disaster recovery, interoperability, and storage for big data and cloud
computing. Examples of new projects in the Gluster Community Forge
include an HDFS Plugin, pmux (file-based mapReduce), gflocator, SAMBA
integration, and Dispersed Volume. To include a project for incubation,
visit https://forge.gluster.org/projects/new
to create a new project.
The Gluster Community has been on the leading edge of development since
2005 when GlusterFS project developers realized that the shift to
storage software on commodity hardware would have significant
ramifications for the global storage industry.
John Mark Walker, Gluster Community lead, Red Hat, said, "The Gluster
Community Forge and project expansion marks a significant milestone for
the Gluster Community. We continue to build momentum globally, growing
from a single, open core project to a global open source community with
contributions by individual engineers, educational and research
communities and organizations. Similar to the way the Fedora Community
shaped software-defined compute, the goal of the Gluster Community is to
transform software-defined storage."
The Gluster Community uses community-driven innovation to enable
organizations to deploy an open software-defined storage fabric and
platform that allows for extreme data portability and mobility.
GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling
to several petabytes while handling thousands of clients. Based on a
stackable user space design, GlusterFS can deliver linear scale-out
performance for diverse workloads.
To interact with the Gluster Community on Twitter, follow @GlusterOrg.
For more information about the Gluster Community and the Gluster
Community Forge visit www.gluster.org.
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1 November 2012, IDC #237976, Volume: 1
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Solutions: File-based Storage: Vendor Profile
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