Gluster
| Company type | Privately funded | 
|---|---|
| Industry | Software, computer storage | 
| Founded | 2005 | 
| Founder | Anand Avati Anand Babu Periasamy | 
| Headquarters | |
| Number of locations | 2 | 
| Key people | Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy (CTO) and Hitesh Chellani (CEO) | 
| Products | Cloud storage | 
| Number of employees | 60 | 
| Website | www | 
Gluster Inc. (formerly known as Z RESEARCH) was a software company that provided an open source platform for scale-out public and private cloud storage. The company was privately funded and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with an engineering center in Bangalore, India. Gluster was funded by Nexus Venture Partners and Index Ventures. Gluster was acquired by Red Hat on October 7, 2011.