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Gluster

Gluster Inc. (formerly known as Z RESEARCH) was a software company that provided an open source platform for scale-out public and private cloud storage. The company was privately funded and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with an engineering center in Bangalore, India. Gluster was funded by Nexus Venture Partners and Index Ventures. Gluster was…

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Founded
2005; 21 years ago (2005)
Industry
Software, computer storage
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California and Bangalore, India
Founder
Anand Avati Anand Babu Periasamy
Key people
Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy (CTO) and Hitesh Chellani (CEO)
Number of employees
60

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GlusterFS

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Gluster

Nodes63
Edges62
Triples86
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.031746
Components1

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Gluster

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related to Design · 23
Gluster → By, Ethernet, FUSE, GlusterFS, GNU General Public License, GPL, InfiniBand, Infiniband RDMA, It, Lesser General Public License, LGPL, NFS, NFSv4, Object, OpenStack Storage, SAMBA, Servers, Sockets Direct Protocol, Swift, TCP/IP
related to history · 15
Gluster → Anand Babu Periasamy, Ben Golub, Ceph, CTO, Despite, Gluster's, GlusterFS, GNU, In May, Lustre, October, Red Hat, Red Hat Gluster Storage, Red Hat Storage Server, The
related to GlusterFS · 13
Gluster → April, Ceph, GlusterFS, GlusterFS-based Red Hat Storage, In June, Inc, Inktank Storage, It, Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Gluster Storage, Red Hat Storage Server, Server
related to Public cloud deployment · 11
Gluster → Amazon Machine Image, Amazon Web Services, Amazon's Elastic Block Storage, AMI, AWS, EBS, EC2, Elastic Compute Cloud, For, GlusterFS, In
related to Architecture · 7
Gluster → Capacity, Each, High, I/O, JBOD, Performance, The GlusterFS
related to Private cloud deployment · 4
Gluster → GlusterFS, KVM, VMware, Xen
Founded · 1
Gluster → 2005; 21 years ago (2005)
Founder · 1
Gluster → Anand Avati Anand Babu Periasamy
Headquarters · 1
Gluster → Sunnyvale, California and Bangalore, India
Industry · 1
Gluster → Software, computer storage

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glusterfs storage file cloud server red hat system inc software public volumes company private funded replication using servers bangalore commodity

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GlusterFounded2005; 21 years ago (2005)1.00infobox
GlusterFounderAnand Avati Anand Babu Periasamy1.00infobox
GlusterHeadquartersSunnyvale, California and Bangalore, India1.00infobox
GlusterIndustrySoftware, computer storage1.00infobox
GlusterKey peopleAnand Babu (AB) Periasamy (CTO) and Hitesh Chellani (CEO)1.00infobox
GlusterNumber of employees601.00infobox
GlusterNumber of locations21.00infobox
GlusterProductsCloud storage1.00infobox
GlusterTypePrivately funded1.00infobox
GlusterWebsitewww.gluster.com1.00infobox
KVMinstance ofor private cloud deployment will consist of GlusterFS installed as a virtual appliance on top of multiple commodity servers running hypervisors0.80text
Xeninstance ofor private cloud deployment will consist of GlusterFS installed as a virtual appliance on top of multiple commodity servers running hypervisors0.80text

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