Syndicated 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
Syndicated 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
Syndicated 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
Syndicated 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
Syndicated 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
Syndicated 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
Syndicated 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
Syndicated 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
Syndicated 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
Syndicated 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
Syndicated 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
Syndicated Do Open Source Communities Have a Social Responsibility? This post continues my holiday detour into things not necessarily tech related. Forgive me this indulgence – there is at least one more post I’ll make in a similar vein. Open Source communities are different. At least, I’ve always felt that they are. Think of the term “community manager.
Syndicated Inspiration vs. Perspiration (this was initially posted on the blog On CollabNet)I recently had the pleasure of attending the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in San Jose, and it gave me the opportunity to listen to 2 very contrasting approaches to what amounted to the sa...