Dead on: Redhat grabs Gluster
By joe
- 2 minutes read - 299 wordsReaders of this blog will know I’ve been saying this publicly for a while (and no, I had no inside knowledge of this, no knowledge of it whatsoever, no one spoke to me, and I own no shares of any of these companies). Redhat acquiring Gluster is a good thing. While AB, Hitesh, and the team have done a bang up job getting the product out, and doing interesting things with it, they needed additional capital resources to take it to the next level. And under Redhat, they will get them. This is not to say that other solutions are now dead or even dying. I do expect that Ceph will be the main competitor to Gluster going forward (in about a year or so) … and I’d argue that they (Dreamhost) would make one helluva acquisition target (Oracle, Redhat, etc.) . I wouldn’t put Lustre in this same category … the use case and scope for that is mostly different than Gluster. There is overlap, but it works to Gluster’s advantage. This was a good move, and I’d expect to see Redhat start seriously investing in Gluster, and HekaFS (the renamed CloudFS). Hopefully Jeff Darcy had a hand in this, and hopefully things will continue to evolve faster/better with Gluster. To the Gluster team, congratulations, Redhat is a good company, and I think you will do well within their fold. To Redhat, this was a very good move (if I do say so myself), and please … please … don’t close down access to Gluster … its a great product, and we use it as the basis for some of our units. And a reminder, we are in our booth #4101 at SC11 if anyone wants to give out cool Gluster + Redhat swag (hint hint hint) :)