Despite reassurances from Oracle, advocates of yet another ex-Sun Microsystems technology are voicing concern about the future of their software. In this latest case, the technology is Lustre, a file ...

What do systems from Bull, Cray, Dell, HP, IBM, Linux Networx, SGI and Sun all have in common? The Lustre file system. Lustre is the Linux-based open source file system developed by Cluster File ...

Supercomputer vendor Cray is trying to make the Lustre file system easier to work with, allowing users to copy material from the file system into a multilayered storage archiving system. Cray has ...

Today Whamcloud announced its new Chroma management software for the Lustre file system. I saw an impressive demo of the Chroma beta back at ISC11 this past June, but now it’s ready for prime time. To ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to become the first major vendor to offer a product based on the open source Lustre file system when it unveils a turnkey product based on Lustre at the International ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. Wednesday agreed to purchase most of Cluster File Systems Inc.’s business assets and intellectual property, including the Lustre file system, an open-source software distribution ...

The LUG 2011 meeting of Lustre Users kicks off tomorrow in Orlando. To get things started, OpenSFS has just announced a request for proposals for “OpenSFS Phase 1 Lustre development.” “The purpose of ...

Fujitsu said Tuesday it will work with Whamcloud to develop new features for the open-source Lustre file system aimed at high-performance computing. The Japanese company, which built the supercomputer ...

Object storage has been drawing an increasing level of interest from organizations over the past several years as a convenient way to store and manage the growing quantities of data they are ...

High-performance Lustre file system is getting its day in the sun as new start-up Whamcloud unwraps commercial offerings. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience ...