One alternative to buying expensive storage-area networks or other hardware-based dedicated storage is to deploy open source storage software on existing server hardware. For this test, we evaluated ...

The world of storage has changed a lot recently. Where a decade ago, the Fibre Channel SAN filer was the standard for enterprise storage, in current environments, influenced by ...

The news comes one week after the Portland, Ore.-based company unveiled its GlusterFS3.3 file system which allows users to access the same data as either an object or as a file. OpenStack is an ...

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 ...

If you need to set up a distributed file system in your data center, you can’t go wrong with GlusterFS. Jack Wallen shows you how. GlusterFS is a network file system capable of handling petabytes of ...

Red Hat announced on May 1 that its Gluster Community “has extended its charter from a single project to a multi-project open-source community for open software-defined storage.” Gluster is now open ...

Most of us accumulate stuff, like drawers full of old cables and hard drives full of data. Reddit user [BaxterPad] doesn’t worry about such things though, as he built an impressive Network Attached ...

Linus Torvalds has railed frequently and loudly against kernel developers breaking user space. But that rule is not ironclad; there are exceptions. As Linus once ...

Are you a Python programmer who wishes your storage could do more for you? Here's an easy way to add functionality to a real distributed filesystem, in your favorite language. Programming languages ...

One alternative to buying expensive storage-area networks or other hardware-based dedicated storage is to deploy open source storage software on existing server hardware. For this test, we evaluated ...