On October 4, 2011, Red Hat announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Gluster, an open source storage cluster software system headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and developed in Bangalore, India. Gluster technology provides capabilities that make it a good fit for Red Hat’s cloud computing strategy. Red Hat is actively engaged in […]
We continue with the large acquisitions. This is the turn of EMC on Isilon, a large entity known to most as a storage system vendor, acquires Isilon, which we talked about in 2008, a strong reality in cluster storage systems. The growth in the demand for scalability in storage, not only in the amount of […]
Hewlett-Packard acquired LeftHand Networks on October 1 to open its market to the new logic of storage virtualization, storage clustering, or rather commodity-based storage clusters. LeftHand Networks, a pioneer in iSCSI SAN technology, offers scalable storage software for the standard hardware industry. With the LeftHand, HP’s portfolio of virtualization solutions for small and medium-sized businesses […]