Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 Launches with Partner Support from Cisco,
Groupware, Intel, Mainline and Synnex
RALEIGH, N.C. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced strong partner support for Red Hat Storage,
the company's scale-out, open source storage software for the management
of unstructured data. Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 debuts with a strong
ecosystem of industry-leading partners, including Cisco, Groupware,
Intel, Mainline and Synnex.
With virtualization, cloud computing, mobile devices and social media
helping to drive adoption, the market opportunity for scale-out storage
is growing rapidly. Industry analysts estimate revenue for the scale-out
storage market will reach more than $18 billion by 2015, a more than 20
percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR).1 Enterprise
Strategy Group further estimates that by 2015, 80 percent of all new
external networked storage shipment revenue will come from systems based
on scale-out architectures,2 and that externally networked
scale-out storage shipments in commercial and government sectors will
increase from 4,189 petabytes (PB) in 2010 to 62,834 PB in 2015,
reflecting a 72 percent CAGR that exceeds the overall external networked
storage growth rate of 54 percent.3
Red Hat Storage is designed to address organizations' growing needs
around the management of unstructured data, and through ecosystem
collaboration with Red Hat, leading solution providers can leverage the
open and flexible nature of Red Hat Storage and can develop unique
solutions that give the power of choice back to customers. Red Hat
Storage Server 2.0 launches today with support from the following Red
Hat partners: Cisco, Groupware, Intel, Mainline and Synnex.
To learn more about the Red Hat Storage partner ecosystem, visit the
Storage Alley at Red Hat Summit, taking place in Boston, June 26-29.
Additionally, Red Hat executives will be hosting a press conference
including further details on Red Hat Storage that will be broadcast live
from Red Hat Summit in Boston at 1:00 p.m. ET on June 27, 2012. The
webcast will also be available for replay. To join, visit https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:QS!10100&ShowKey=9438.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, general manager, Storage, Red Hat
"Scale-out storage is now an integral part of mainstream IT, and the
partner ecosystem surrounding Red Hat Storage is a big part of our
vision to help organizations reduce their storage costs while addressing
the massive growth in unstructured data. Coupled with our rich partner
ecosystem, Red Hat has the opportunity to transform the enterprise
storage industry in the same way Red Hat Enterprise Linux disrupted the
proprietary UNIX market."
Mark Balch, director, Data Center Group, Cisco
"More customers are looking for scale-out, distributed storage for data
analytics, archive and cloud applications. Cisco is working with Red Hat
and other storage solution vendors to deliver high-performance, rapidly
deployable datacenter infrastructure built on the Cisco Unified
Computing System to meet these increasing needs."
Mike Thompson, president & CEO, Groupware
"The delivery of Red Hat Storage 2.0 today brings compelling new
scale-out storage flexibility and choice to enterprises. We are
collaborating closely with Red Hat to deliver the benefits of enterprise
storage to customers around the world."
David Tuhy, storage general manager, Intel
"Red Hat and Intel have collaborated to evolve software and hardware
technologies to keep pace with the rapidly growing IT challenges. We are
pleased to welcome Red Hat to the storage community today. Together, Red
Hat and Intel deliver a storage solution with rich functionality,
benefiting our joint customers."
Jeff Dobbelaere, vice president, x86 Sales, Mainline Information
Systems
"Red Hat and Mainline have partnered for many years across
virtualization, middleware, systems management and Linux, and are
pleased to extend that partnership to storage. As customer needs in the
datacenter continue to change and expand, Red Hat's ability to deliver
choice and flexibility up the stack, and now including storage, delivers
increased value to our end customers."
Peter Larocque, president, US Distribution for SYNNEX Corporation
"With Red Hat's entrance into the storage space and today's Red Hat
Storage 2.0 availability, enterprises are offered even more choice from
Red Hat and SYNNEX. With our long-standing strategic collaboration with
Red Hat focused across a variety of technology areas, such as
virtualization and cloud, Red Hat has become one of our top software
partners."
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1 Enterprise Strategy Group, Scale-out
Storage Market Forecast, 2010-2015, February 2011
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
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