Gluster CEO discusses best cloud storage options

Gluster CEO discusses best cloud storage options

Gluster CEO discusses best cloud storage options

Date: Jun 08, 2011

Ben Golub, CEO of open source file system software maker Gluster, shares his thoughts on scale-out storage, cloud storage gateways and appliances and the idea that commodity hardware will beat out proprietary systems in this week's episode of Cloud Cover TV.

We discuss:

  • GlusterFS open source file system
  • Factor of ten reduction in price of storage by making hardware a commodity
  • Gluster users sit on top of Amazon EC2 and EBS
  • Encryption coming to Gluster, but it is POSIX compliant today
  • Dedupe technology gets you another 30%-40% price reduction, but is not supported in Gluster
  • Open source means Gluster has thousands of developers, QA people
  • Ten times as many people using the open source version versus the professional version
  • Cloud storage appliances and gateways complimentary to Gluster
  • Cloud as backup but more compelling is cloud for disaster recovery
  • Cloud for bursty workloads
  • Gluster lets you have the apps and storage in the cloud and in your on premise data center, replication between the two
  • Gluster is part of OpenStack
  • Bandwidth issues getting data from point A to point B
  • Long term market trends favor commodity storage

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