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* [cleversafe](http://cleversafe.org) is a company that makes a distributed data storage grid; some of the company's projects are released under the GNU General Public Licence v2 * [cleversafe](http://cleversafe.org) is a company that makes a distributed data storage grid; some of the company's projects are released under the GNU General Public Licence v2
* [fluidinfo](http://fluidinfo.com/) is a stealth-mode startup that is apparently doing something creative in the realm of distributed storage. The founder, Terry Jones, is or was a researcher in the field of artificial life and genetic algorithms. Here's [his PhD thesis](http://www.cs.unm.edu/~forrest/dissertations-and-proposals/terry.pdf). fluidinfo hasn't released any source code.
* [mogilefs](http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/) is an open source decentralized data storage grid in which files are replicated to a number of storage servers. It is written in Perl and uses MySQL. It was written by the folks who made [LiveJournal](http://livejournal.com). The name is an anagram for "OMG files".
* [GNUnet](http://gnunet.org) is an anonymous, censorship-resistant, file-sharing network. * [GNUnet](http://gnunet.org) is an anonymous, censorship-resistant, file-sharing network.
* [Hadoop](http://hadoop.apache.org/core/) is inspired by the Google File System and mapreduce, is supported by Yahoo, and seems to have broad acceptance among programmers. * [Hadoop](http://hadoop.apache.org/core/) is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Java, supported by Yahoo, and seems to have broad acceptance among programmers (at least compared to the alternatives).
* [mogilefs](http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/) is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Perl and uses MySQL. It was written by the folks who made [LiveJournal](http://livejournal.com). The name is an anagram for "OMG files".
* [Kosmos Distributed File System](http://kosmosfs.sourceforge.net/) is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in C++, and recently announced some sort of compatibility with Hadoop.
# Interesting Vaporware
* [fluidinfo](http://fluidinfo.com/) is a stealth-mode startup that is apparently doing something creative in the realm of distributed storage. The founder, Terry Jones, is or was a researcher in the field of artificial life and genetic algorithms. Here's [his PhD thesis](http://www.cs.unm.edu/~forrest/dissertations-and-proposals/terry.pdf). He also contributes to the Twisted Python project. fluidinfo hasn't released any source code.