Gluster, which develops scale-out NAS solutions for public and private clouds, is the latest company to join the OpenStack community. As contributing developers, Gluster hopes to enhance the OpenStack Storage project with redundancy, better scale, and higher redundancy. The company is planning to present its first code contribution as soon as the OpenStack Developer Conference in April 2011.
OpenStack, for those unfamiliar, is an open standard for cloud services spearheaded by Rackspace Hosting and NASA, designed to compete with the likes of Amazon Web Services. In theory, OpenStack will allow cloud services providers (CSPs) and cloud integrators to more easily move SaaS applications from one OpenStack cloud to the next.
When OpenStack’s most recent release dropped in early 2011, industry heavyweights like Cisco had thrown their support behind it. With over 50 developer partners already listing themselves as members of the OpenStack Alliance, Gluster is in good company.
Gluster itself is potentially a good fit for the OpenStack Alliance, given that the company is no stranger to both the cloud and open source. Gluster has already partnered with fellow OpenStack contributor RightScale for more manageable cloud storage, and the company has released Amazon Web Services-ready virtual appliances. Plus Gluster’s solutions are open source.
Still, we’re curious to see whether Rackspace rivals embraces OpenStack, since doing so requires cooperation amid competition.
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