Gluster announced that it has partnered with GoGrid to provide its highly scalable NAS cloud storage technology within GoGrid's cloud infrastructure. Starting today, GoGrid customers can use a beta version of Gluster's software-only storage solutions via the Gluster GoGrid Sever Image, or Gluster GSI.

"Gluster's storage technology is architected to meet the scalability and performance requirements of dynamic cloud environments and is complementary to GoGrid’s cloud infrastructure," said Jeffrey Samuels, Chief Marketing Officer at GoGrid. "Our ability to enable businesses to deploy and begin managing existing or new applications in the cloud in near real time, coupled with Gluster’s capabilities, provide our customers with a comprehensive solution option for effectively managing storage in their cloud environment."

Thousands of enterprises worldwide use Gluster’s software-only platform to aggregate storage resources in a unified high performance, highly available, standardized, virtualized, and centrally managed pool within one global namespace. The Gluster GSI packages the GlusterFS scale-out NAS file system in a GoGrid Server Image, enabling high performance, high availability and easily-managed shared storage in the GoGrid cloud infrastructure. The Gluster GSI is the only highly available scale-out file storage solution for GoGrid supporting asynchronous data replication with Gluster Geo-Replication and synchronous replication with Gluster N-way replication.

The Gluster GSI deploys in minutes on easily created GoGrid cloud server instances to form a clustered NAS fileserver within the GoGrid cloud. GoGrid customers now have the ability to rapidly deploy scale-out NAS cloud storage to petabytes of capacity that is POSIX compliant and requires no application program modifications for its use.

"The volume of unstructured data and the need for organizations to find an effective storage solution for cloud environments are on the rise," said Lori Budin, Vice President Channels and Partnerships at Gluster. "GoGrid has shown great industry traction as a leading infrastructure as a service platform, and our partnership will allow customers to drastically improve storage economics in their cloud infrastructure. We are eagerly looking forward to exiting the beta period and the GSI being generally available later this summer."