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From Russia with Tenderlove - ManageIQ Podcast

Aaron Patterson joined us from Russia on this fun podcast, covering many topics, from the Rails 4 migration and the ManageIQ Design Summit to why you should "just use Ruby". You can see Aaron and lots of other smart people at the upcoming ManageIQ D...

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Design Summit Podcast - Brad Ascar and John Hardy

John Hardy and Brad Ascar stopped by the studio to discuss their talks at the upcoming ManageIQ Design Summit on October 7 & 8 in Mahwah, NJ John and Brad's upcoming talks: Fisher Price: My First State Machine - John Hardy Navigating the M...

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Breaking: Tenderlove to Discuss Rails 4 Migration Plans at Design Summit

If you're headed to the ManageIQ Design Summit on October 7 & 8, you're in for a treat. Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove) will be leading a session in the design track on the topic of migrating ManageIQ to Ruby on Rails 4. One of the things Aaron wil...

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Sprint 12 Demo Results and Video

We just finished up the Sprint 12 demo, ended September 9. If you want to read the highlights of the sprint demo, notes are posted below: SPRINT 12 DEMO HIGHLIGHTS * Overview * Sprint Statistics * User Interface * Automate * Appliance * REST API * Fleecing SPRINTS * 3 weeks long each

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The ManageIQ Design Summit - a small intimate gathering of cloud experts

We're happy to announce the preliminary agenda for the upcoming ManageIQ Design Summit, a 2-day event on October 7 & 8 in Montvale, NJ. Be sure to RSVP soon, as space is very limited. As mentioned in the title, it's a small intimate gathering of cl...

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Moving on From Gluster

All good things must come to an end. I can say with no equivocation that the last three years have been the most rewarding from a work perspective than any other job I’ve ever had. When I accepted this challenge in May, 2011, I had no idea that the

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An OpenStack Storage Hackathon

With technologies around Open Software-defined Storage emerging as the way to get things done in the cloud, we’ve noticed strong interest in how to take advantage of this emerging software space. Storage is changing from the proprietary, expensive box in the corner to a set of APIs and open

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OpenNebula: Native GlusterFS Image Access for KVM Drivers

If you saw our Gluster Spotlight (“Integration Nation”) last week, you’ll recall that Javi and Jaime from the OpenNebula project were discussing their recent advances with GlusterFS and libgfapi access. Here’s a post where they go into some detail about it: The good news is that for some

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Gluster Spotlight: Integration Nation

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJGHNgg806Q&w=560&h=315] This week’s spotlight will be all about software integrated with storage services. GFAPI has opened the floodgates for this type of integration with GlusterFS. In this spotlight, we’ll hear from people who have been

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Deploying Pydio in AWS with GlusterFS

(This was originally published at the pyd.io web site) Introduction Deploying Pydio in a highly-demanding environment (lots of users, tons of documents) to achieve a dropbox-like server at scale requires a solid and elastic architecture. As a distributed file-system and software-defined storage, GlusterFS is a low-cost way of providing

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Vote for Gluster-related OpenStack Summit Talks

Here are the Gluster-related abstracts that have been submitted for the OpenStack Summit in May in Atlanta. Check them out and vote! * Use Case: OpenStack + GlusterFS on TryStack.org * “The Gluster community has made huge strides to support backing an openstack installation’s storage with GlusterFS. TryStack.org has implimented

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The Rise of Open Source Analytics Software

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

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Gluster Spotlight: Citrix, FASRC, Avati and Theron

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-qhaY_CRSQ&w=560&h=315] Join us on Friday, February 7, 1pm Est/10am PST/18:00 Gmt for a very special Gluster Spotlight featuring our 4 new board members: James Cuff (Harvard FASRC), Mark Hinkle (Citrix), Anand Avati (Red

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Citrix and Harvard FASRC Join Gluster Community; Board Expands

Citrix, Harvard University FASRC and long-time contributors join the Gluster Community Board to drive the direction of open software-defined storageFebruary 5, 2014 – The Gluster Community, the leading community for open software-defined storage, announced today two new organizations have signed letters of intent to join: Citrix, Inc. and Harvard University’s

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Gluster Cloud Night Amsterdam

Join us on March 4 for the Gluster Community seminar and learn how to improve your storage. This half day seminar brings you in-depth presentations, use cases, demos and developer content presented by Gluster Community experts. REGISTRATION Register today for this free half-day seminar and reserve your seat since spaces

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Gluster Spotlight on James Shubin: Puppet-Gluster, Vagrant and GlusterFS Automation

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV1_RpZssGk&w=560&h=315] ***UPDATE: Due to weather-related flight cancelations and rebooking, we had to push this back to Thursday, January 23, at noon PST/3pm EST/20:00 GMT*** James Shubin is known in the Gluster community for

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GlusterFest Weekend is Here – Jan 17 – 20

As I mentioned yesterday, the GlusterFest is nigh. This time, we’ll break out testing into two types: * Performance testing * Feature testingTo learn about the GlusterFest and what it is, visit the GlusterFest home at gluster.org/gfestRemember that if you file a bug that is verified by the Gluster

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GlusterFS 3.5 Beta + GlusterFest Weekend

The first GlusterFS 3.5 Beta is here! See what features made it in over at the 3.5 planning page. Here are some of the marquee features: * File Snapshot * Quota Scalability * Brick Failure Detection * On-wire Compression and Decompression * Disk Encryption With this first beta, we’ll have the next

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Gluster Hangout with Daniel Mons from Cutting Edge

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep4C2XWsG8o&w=560&h=315] Dan Mons came across GlusterFS at his job with Cutting Edge, a VFX company. He needed lots of storage space that was available to many different users – and he needed it to be able to expand

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Hangout with Semiosis (Louis Z) Today – Gluster on AWS, Java Filesystem and more

In about 90 minutes, Louis Zuckerman and I will be “hanging out” and talking about how he came to deploy GlusterFS on AWS, and why he’d developing a Java Filesystem integration with GlusterFS. I’ll post the embedded YouTube link here when we’re about to go live. Hangout

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Happy New Year – GlusterFS 3.4.2 has hit store shelves!

As we ring in the new year, we also ring in a new release – GlusterFS 3.4.2, available at your local download server! This is a maintenance release, fixing a few bugs, which you can read in the release notes. In addition to bug fixes, you’ll notice that

Musings

On Millennials and Special Snowflakes

I'm really sick and tired of all the boomer and gen X tsk tsk-ing those dreaded me-first millennials. All of these articles, which you've no doubt seen by now, follow a similar pattern: * Start with a reference to "too much praise" and too much

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The Tyranny of the Clouds

Or “How I learned to start worrying and never trust the cloud.” The Clouderati have been derping for some time now about how we’re all going towards the public cloud and “private cloud” will soon become a distant, painful memory, much like electric generators filled the gap before power

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It’s a GlusterFest Testing Weekend

If you’ve been keeping up with our weekly meetings and the 3.5 planning page, then you know that tomorrow, December 6, is the first testing “day” for 3.5. But since this is a Friday, we’re going to make the party last all weekend, through mid-day Monday.

Family

THE NUTCRACKOLYPSE

Gather around, children, as I tell the tale of the... bum bum BUM... NUTCRACKOLYPSE! //slid.es/johnmarkwalker/thenutcrackolypse/embed