Acquired by Red Hat
Industries Enterprise SoftwareOpen SourceService IndustrySoftwareHeadquarters Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Founded Date Jun 2005 Founders Anand Babu Periasamy, Hitesh Chellani Operating Status Active Last Funding Type Series B
Company Type For Profit
Contact Email info@gluster.com
Gluster is an open source, distributed file system that is capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling many clients.
In order to simplify the task of storing and managing the growth of unstructured data, Gluster has created and delivered open source scale-out cloud storage software. It allows enterprises to combine large numbers of
commodity storage and compute resources into a high performance, virtualized, and centrally managed pool.
Gluster has been deployed by hundreds of global enterprises and service providers across industries including media, healthcare, consumer internet, energy, and biotech. It is based on a stackable user space design and can deliver high performance for diverse workloads.
It has many attributes that includes: Scalability and Performance, Global Namespace, Elastic Hash Algorithm, Elastic Volume Manager, and Standards-based.
Gluster is privately-held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Transaction Name Gluster acquired by Red HatAcquired by Red HatAnnounced Date Oct 4, 2011 Price $136M