"Gluster Storage Platform is the natural evolution of GlusterFS, combining the power and scalability of clustered storage with unparalleled simplicity," said Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, co-founder and CTO of Gluster. "Gluster is the only commercial scale-out storage platform that eliminates metadata server issues and allows non-experts to deploy petabyte-scale storage with the ease of an install wizard."

Designed to be easy to configure and administer, Gluster Storage Platform also packs a powerful scalability and performance punch. With its 'no-metadata server' architecture, Gluster provides the only commercial storage platform that removes this common source of I/O bottlenecks. This approach provides true parallel data access, ensures linear scalability and eliminates the risk of metadata server failure or corruption. Additionally, Gluster Storage Platform provides a cost effective open source solution on commodity hardware that meets enterprise requirements for data availability, ease of management and scalability.

The complete platform image fits on a USB memory stick that can configure a bare server to a clustered storage node in 15 minutes or less . It can also scale to hundreds of petabytes in a single volume across multiple commodity storage nodes.

Additionally, Gluster Storage Platform ensures continuous operation of virtual machines (VMs). Replicated virtual machines can continuously operate in the event of hardware failure and recovery is performed in the background without requiring a restart or blocking I/O to the live VM. Gluster Storage Platform uses checksum based healing which detects and corrects errors within the VM rather than for the entire VM image.

Gluster Storage Platform is now available with subscriptions starting at $1,500 per storage node per year. For more information, go to http://gluster.com/services/edition-subscriptions.php.