Red Hat Announced to Acquire Gluster

Red Hat, Inc. has just made an announcement that it has signed an authoritative agreement to buy Gluster, Inc., a chief provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions for regulating the managing of unstructured data. With this acquirement, Red Hat will classify a new baseline for how enterprise IT manages the bang of big data, whether deployed on-premise or spanning into the public cloud.

Red Hat is expanding at an important part of enterprise infrastructure, allowing you to open storage solutions that keep customers' investments as they move toward to the new era of computing.

"The big data explosion and the new type of cloud computing are converge, forcing us to rethink investments in storage that are manageable, cost-effective, and the scale for the future," Brian Stevens said, Vice President and CTO of Worldwide Engineering at Red Hat. "Our customers are looking for software solutions that manage their data storage based on file at the company, in the cloud and a bridge between the two. With the growth of unstructured data (such as virtual machines, log files, audio, email, documents and video), 90 to force paradigm especially in face of a single DBMS system that reside both inside corporate SAN has become impractical and unwieldy."

Founded in 2005, the aim was to simplify Gluster storage using open source software and standard hardware. The heart of GlusterFS is Gluster is a only-software, scale-out storage system. That allows companies to combine a large amount of storage of raw materials and computing resources in a high performance, centrally managed storage pool globally-accessible. By combining the economics of commodities with a focus on climbing, users can deploy storage without compromising the abundance of cost, manageability and performance. Gluster has emerges as an innovative leader in open source, which is based companies like Pandora, Samsung and Box.net to efficiently control large volumes of data.