Gluster

Gluster, Inc.
Company typePrivately funded
IndustrySoftware, computer storage
Founded2005
FounderAnand Avati
Anand Babu Periasamy Edit this on Wikidata
Headquarters
Number of locations
2
Key people
Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy (CTO) and Hitesh Chellani (CEO)
ProductsCloud storage
Number of employees
60
Websitewww.gluster.org

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]

  1. ^ "About Us". gluster.com. 2008. Archived from the original on 2010-09-09. Retrieved 2022-07-31.
  2. ^ Raj, Chandan (2011-09-20). "California based Indian Entrepreneurs powering petabytes of cloud storage, the Gluster story". YourStory. Bengaluru, India: Scribd. Retrieved 2022-07-31.
  3. ^ Chellani, Hitesh (2007-05-12). "Roadmap and support questions". gluster-devel (Mailing list). Retrieved 31 July 2022. 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.
  4. ^ "Red Hat to Acquire Gluster". redhat.com. October 4, 2011. Archived from the original on May 30, 2013. Retrieved 2013-08-16.