Gluster Goes to FAST

We hosted a small meetup/birds of a feather session at USENIX’s FAST conference. FAST is a conference that focuses on File And Storage Technologies in Santa Clara, California.

Vijay Bellur, Gluster Project Lead, did a short talk on Gluster.Next, our ongoing architectural evolution in Gluster to improve scaling and enable new use cases like like storage as a service, storage for containers, and hyperconvergence.

• What is Gluster.Next?
• How are we building Gluster.Next
  • DHTv2, NSR, Glusterd 2.0, Heketi, Brick multiplexing, Quality of Service
• Why are we building Gluster.Next
• When is this planned for release
  • 3.8 slated for May/June, 4.0 for December

Integrations with other projects like OpenShift, OpenStack, and oVirt were also highlighted.

Slides are included: Gluster.Next Feb 2016