Gluster CEO discusses best cloud storage options
Date: Jun 08, 2011Ben 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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