There’s another great post on the community Q&A site – this one about NFS performance, excessive load times for PHP-based web sites, and the Fuse client. This was written by Joe Julian, our resident IRC chairman and all-around Gluster s…

One of our support engineer gurus, Harsha, has published a very detailed post on tuning parameters for the Linux kernel that may impact your GlusterFS performance. Here’s his introduction: Every now and then, questions come up here internally and…

Gluster has been awarded yet another award, coming on the heels of accolades from Storage Magazine, Citrix Synergy, and TiE50, to name just a few. This time, it’s a Bossie, which are handed out annually by Infoworld to the most deserving Open Sou…

As I watch, from afar, all of the social media activity around VMworld, I’m reminded of those buzzword-compliant resumes we used to contemplate back in the days when online job boards first became popular. Several of us would lament that our resu…

Continuing with the theme of unearthing useful tidbits on the internet, I came across a post from Giovanni Toraldo about using GlusterFS with ZFS on Debian/Ubuntu Linux. Why would someone want to do this? With OpenSolaris’ future essentially over…

By now you may have heard our announcement that GlusterFS 3.3 will be able to serve as a scale-out data store for Apache Hadoop. This is one area where a solution has been sorely needed, and we’re happy to provide one. Here’s the relevant p…

During OSCON week, we had the pleasure of sponsoring and presenting at ScaleOutCamp PDX, which was held in the posh new headquarters of Puppet Labs. Below is the video from our presentation. As you can see, Tom and I had some fun with this one: You can…

The Gluster Connector for OpenStack is a triumph of community. Watching OpenStack grow as quickly as it has, changing the industry as it has, is breathtaking to watch. To be able to participate in that community and move it that much more forward is a …

We have an incredible week coming up at OSCON! It’s always a joy to come back to Portland and see how this conference has grown by leaps and bounds. It starts tonight, July 25, with our birds-of-a-feather cum meetup taking place at 9pm in the con…

Today we announced our public beta program for GlusterFS 3.3 (download link), and while I’m excited that Gluster continues its cadence of bringing new features to market, I am elated to be able to deliver the next big thing in software-based converg…

You may have noticed our press release that we joined the Open Virtualization Alliance. So what is the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA)? According to their web site: The Open Virtualization Alliance’s goal is to help: Increase overall awareness…

For customers and community members on the 3.1.x series, we recommend that you upgrade to the latest, GlusterFS 3.1.5, available today. Here are some issues fixed in this release: Bug 2294: Fixed the issue occurred during creating and sharing of volume…

One of the things we’ve been really excited about is the prospect of hosting user groups at our office and seeding many more of them around the globe. We’re thrilled to be hosting our very first GlusterFS meetup on June 30, here at Gluster …

With the release of v3.1 we are moving to the GNU Affero GPL (AGPL) to better address the emergence of cloud computing. In short, the AGPL is the open source license for the cloud and it closes the so-called ‘service provider loophole’. Please read more on the company blog.