Chitika Inc., an online advertising network based in Westborough, MA, sought to provide its data scientists with faster and simpler access to its massive store of ad impression data. The company managed to boost availability and broaden access to its data by swapping out HDFS for GlusterFS as the filesystem backend for its Hadoop deployment. …Read more

I was pleased to read about the progress of Graylog2, ElasticSearch, Kibana, et al. in the past year. Machine data analysis has been a growing area of interest for some time now, as traditional monitoring and systems management tools aren’t capable of keeping up with All of the Things that make up many modern workloads. …Read more

The Gluster Community would like to congratulate the OpenStack Foundation and developers on the Havana release. With performance-boosting enhancements for OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder), Compute (Nova) and Image Service (Glance), as well as a native template language for OpenStack Orchestration (Heat), the OpenStack Havana release points the way to continued momentum for the OpenStack community. …Read more

The glusterfs-hadoop team is pleased to announce that the Apache Ambari project now supports the automated deployment and configuration of Hadoop on top of GlusterFS. What is Apache Ambari? Apache Ambari is a browser based Hadoop Management Web UI that is used to provision, manage and monitor Hadoop clusters. Once Apache Ambari is installed on …Read more

The Gluster community is pleased to announce a major update to the glusterfs-hadoop project with the release of version 2.1. The glusterfs-hadoop project provides an Apache licensed Hadoop FileSystem plugin which enables Apache Hadoop 1.x and 2.x to run directly on top of GlusterFS. This release includes a re-architected plugin which now extends existing functionality within …Read more