Company type | Privately funded |
---|---|
Industry | Software, computer storage |
Founded | 2005 |
Founder | Anand Avati Anand Babu Periasamy |
Headquarters | |
Number of locations | 2 |
Key people | Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy (CTO) and Hitesh Chellani (CEO) |
Products | Cloud storage |
Number of employees | 60 |
Website | www |
Gluster Inc. (formerly known as Z RESEARCH[1][2][3]) 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 acquired by Red Hat on October 7, 2011.[4]
Z Research was officially formed in June 2005 by AB (Anand Babu) aka "rooty" who is the CTO and myself with the goal of commoditizing Supercomputing and Superstorage and in the process validating yet another a business model around "Free Software", thus evangelizing "Free Software" and promoting the fact building businesses around "Free Software" is the way forward.