Gluster Joins Calxeda Trailblazer Initiative

Gluster, provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions, is among the first companies* to join the Calxeda Trailblazer Initiative, an industry ecosystem of companies dedicated to improving server and datacenter efficiency.  

Gluster was selected by Calxeda to be a Trailblazer, and as such, will be first to begin proof of concept testing this fall.
 
"As volumes of information increase daily, storage continues to be the holy grail. Gluster’s scale-out NAS approach for cloud and virtual machine environments combined with Calxeda’s scale-out architecture will be a formidable player in all things datacenter storage," said Barry Evans, CEO, Calxeda. "Collaborating, as we will do with Gluster as an early member of Trailblazer, will enable our two companies to make the datacenter of the future real in the very near term."
 
Trailblazer partners will work with Calxeda to accelerate adoption of efficient servers, creating an ecosystem that end users will benefit from by delivering full systems faster. Since its August 2010 launch, Calxeda has created industry interest in its ARM-based servers. With Trailblazer, Calxeda is reacting to demand from customers and partners to get its chips into servers and datacenters, the first step being partner access to early silicon for Proof of Concept testing, expected this Fall. The Calxeda Trailblazer program will comprise a variety of industry players, software developers, hardware companies and systems integrators, including Gluster.

"The trend towards low-power and hyper-efficient compute resources matches what we are seeing in the storage market," said AB Periasamy, founder and CTO, Gluster. "Organizations want to reduce costs associated with compute and storage infrastructure while maximizing performance and we are pleased to be participating in the Calxeda Trailblazer program."

As a Trailblazer, Calxeda will provide Gluster with early access to hardware, operating system software, tools, applications and joint sales and marketing. Gluster will also receive first updates on valuable benchmarking and technical information, all intended to help both companies – and the entire ecosystem – deliver systems to end users faster, improving datacenter efficiency. Powered by Calxeda’s low-power ARM chips, these new servers and next generation data centers will help solve the energy consumption crisis, and will increase efficiency and save money for users.

 
* Other ones are Autonomic Resources, Canonical, Caringo, Couchbase, Datastax, Eucalyptus Systems, Gluster, Momentum SI, Opscode, and Pervasive