The open source trend had been picking up a great deal of momentum lately, and for a number of reasons. In addition being cheaper than most alternatives, open source cloud offerings help avoid vendor lock-in, and this space as a whole spurred quite a bit of innovations throughout the past few months. One of the companies leading this trend is open source storage solutions provider Gluster, who reached yet another milestone this week.

The open source cloud storage solutions provider announced it has added support for 2 more services, KVM and Xen. KVM and XEN has seen steadily growth through the past few years, and represent two segments Gluster is apparently very interested to tap.

In our discussions with our community and key partners, we recognized the crucial need KVM and Xen users have for scale-out cloud storage like our GlusterFS offering,” said AB Periasamy, co-founder and CTO of Gluster.

Periasamy continued to note many existing Gluster customers displayed a demand to expand their IT infrastructures into a KVM or Xen environment. The Gluster Virtual Storage Appliances supporting KVM and Xen have hit general availability around the time the announcement was made.

Gluster has been very busy expanding lately, and on a global scale too. The company announced that its storage solution is now powering Sweden’s first IaaS platform, City Cloud, developed by hosting company City Network Hosting. This news crossed the wire a couple of weeks Gluster announced it has joined the OpenStack community, followed the footsteps of dozens of other companies.

When looking at the past week or so, there has been another particularly notable milestone within the open source cloud space. Cloudera announced the general availability of the Cloudera Distribution Including Apache Hadoop v3 (CDH3), which features new supporting programs as well as improved performance and security. Moreover, GigaSpaces also joined the OpenStack community, adding its name to a hefty list of influential participants–a list that includes Gluster, too.