“The virtual storage appliance is built on the open source
GlusterFS filesystem that is now being actively developed by Red
Hat. Red Hat acquired Gluster Inc., the lead commercial sponsor
behind GlusterFS, for $136 million in October 2011.The Red Hat Software Storage Appliance was the first product
that came from the Gluster acquisition. The initial iteration was
announced in December 2011. With the new AWS version, Red Hat is
taking its virtual appliance to Amazon’s virtual environment.
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