Gluster rolled out on Tuesday two new scale-out NAS virtual appliances for VMware and Amazon Web Services. The VMware Virtual Storage Appliance integrates the GlusterFS clustered file system into a virtual machine for deployment. The Amazon Web Services appliance packages GlusterFS with an Amazon Machine Image for cloud deployment. Both appliance are functional Gluster servers that virtualize storage under a global name space. The Virtual Storage Appliances are expected to be available in mid-February.