[cdwg] Xyratex News Regarding Lustre - Press Release

[Kevin Canady]

Hi Chris,
I'm organizing a presentation once we have completed analysis of everything being brought over.  I'll see how best to coordinate with Pam, John and Dave to facilitate.  I expect we can have some constructive discussions in the working group.  Lustre.org and Lustre name are high on the top of the list.

Cheers,
Kevin

On Feb 19, 2013, at 3:51 PM, "Christopher J. Morrone" <morrone2 at llnl.gov> wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
> 
> As is typical of press releases, this is a little light on details.
> 
> Could you please elaborate on Xyratex's intentions for the purchased assets?
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 02/19/2013 03:10 PM, Kevin Canady wrote:
>> Greetings Community!
>> Today we are very excited to announce that Xyratex has purchased
>> Lustre^®  and its assets from Oracle. We intend for Lustre to remain an
>> open-source, community-driven file system to be promoted by our
>> community organizations.  We undertook the acquisition because we
>> realize its importance to the entire community and we want to help
>> ensure that it will continue to deliver for all of us over the long
>> term.  This is critically important to the growth and vitality of
>> Lustre; it’s how it became what it is today, and it’s how it will
>> deliver the most value in the future.  Several members of the Lustre
>> community have endorsed these plans and voiced their support of our
>> purchase, and contributed quotes which were included in our announcement
>> today.
>> 
>> Special thanks to our two community leaders Hugo Falter with EOFS and
>> Norm Morse with OpenSFS for their support to date and into the future as
>> we work to further the collaboration around Lustre.  Expect to hear more
>> soon as we head into the 2013 Lustre User Group meeting in San Diego.
>> http://www.opensfs.org/events/lug13/  It should be an exciting event!
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Kevin
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