New release enables organizations to extend scale-out NAS storage to
the cloud with support planned for additional cloud providers in the
future
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the availability of the Red Hat Virtual
Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is built on the
former Gluster technology that the company acquired in October 2011. As
the leading enterprise-ready scale-out NAS offering for the public cloud
available on the market today, Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance enables
organizations to extend their datacenter storage to the cloud. With the
appliance, users have the ability to aggregate both Amazon Elastic Block
Storage (EBS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, creating
a highly available virtualized storage pool that offers enhanced
scalability and performance in the cloud. This news comes on the heels
of Red Hat's announcement of its Storage Software Appliance in December
2011. These two products provide greater flexibility to organizations
looking to include file storage in their on-premise and cloud strategies.
Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for AWS features both synchronous and
asynchronous file replication, assuring data availability across AWS
Availability Zones. Synchronous replication provides users with
redundancy and protection within a single datacenter or multiple
datacenters and availability zones in a region, while asynchronous
geo-replication offers data availability across all AWS Regions. Red Hat
Virtual Storage Appliance is POSIX compliant meaning that no application
modifications are required for data access in the cloud.
"Organizations are increasingly looking for cloud storage that delivers
the flexibility and cost savings of the cloud without having to overhaul
their entire application and storage infrastructure," said Terri
McClure, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "This newest offering by
Red Hat enables organizations to seamlessly easily extend their
datacenter storage to the cloud while still receiving the performance
and availability desired."
Key benefits of Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for AWS include:
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Deploy in minutes — Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for AWS
can be deployed in minutes, providing one of the fastest ways to
create an on-demand, high-performance, petabyte-scale storage
environment;
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Improved Amazon EC2 experience — each Red Hat Virtual Storage
Appliance pools multiple EBS storage elements together, moving beyond
capacity limitations of a single device and smoothing performance
variations across the pool. With Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance,
Amazon EC2 customers experience greater availability, performance and
utility pricing;
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No application rewrites — because Red Hat Virtual Storage
Appliance is POSIX- compliant, there is no need to rewrite
applications when moving data to the cloud as with cloud-based object
storage; and,
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Extend your data center — Using the Red Hat Virtual Appliance
along with the Red Hat Storage Software Appliance enables you to
easily extend the unstructured data storage in your datacenter to the
cloud. You can use storage as a large pool or resource and replicate
to and from the cloud to meet your growing storage needs and to handle
overflow situations.
"This release of Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web
Services provides users with the highly available storage solutions
necessary for a successful cloud deployment," said Ranga Rangachari,
general manager, Storage at Red Hat. "By using the appliance within the
AWS environment, users are now able to scale linearly for performance
and capacity, connect multiple AWS instances to a single shared storage
pool, and also experience the benefits of an AWS deployment. In the near
future, we expect the appliance to also support additional cloud
providers and extend its benefits to their deployments."
For more information about Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon
Web Services, visit http://www.redhat.com/products/storage/virtual-storage/.
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