From GlusterFS to Azure Files: A Real-World Migration Story

A few weeks ago, we received a call familiar to many cloud architects—a customer with a massive GlusterFS deployment impacted by Red Hat’s end-of-support deadline (December 2024) wondering: “What now?”. With hundreds of terabytes across their infrastructure serving both internal teams and external customers, moving away from GlusterFS became a…

03/06/2025Azure Storage Blog

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