Red Hat Brings Community-Powered Innovation and Volume Economics of
Standardization to Multi-Billion Dollar Scale-Out Network Attached
Storage (NAS) Market with Red Hat Storage Server 2.0
RALEIGH, N.C. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT AND JBOSS WORLD 2012 — Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT),
the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced
the global availability of Red Hat Storage Server 2.0, the company's
scale-out, open source storage software solution for the management of
unstructured data. Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 transforms the enterprise
and cloud storage market by — for the first time — combining
community-powered innovation with the volume economics of industry
standard x86 servers across on-premise, cloud or hybrid environments.
Across industries, the volume of unstructured data — ranging from social
media content, text and emails to image, video and audio files — is
exploding as a result of digitization, mobility and our increasingly
connected world, and dramatically outpacing the growth of structured
data. By 2020, the growth of Internet-connected devices and sensors is
projected to reach 50 billion,1 a prediction that supports
IDC's estimate that the total volume of the digital universe — comprised
of 90 percent unstructured data and calculated at 1.8 zettabytes in 2011
— will increase by a factor of 50 in 2020.2 As the volume of
unstructured data continues to grow, organizations are facing challenges
managing both compute and data, and closed source, proprietary and
monolithic hardware storage solutions may not be equipped to help
organizations deal with this onslaught in a cost-effective or scalable
manner.
Red Hat Storage solutions leverage community-powered innovation to
address scale-out storage challenges. Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 is the
industry's first file storage solution to integrate easily with object
storage, enabling users to combine larger amounts of storage into a
single centralized pool. Unified file and object storage simplifies the
management of different kinds of data, giving customers powerful storage
and information flexibility, the ability to efficiently scale to meet
exploding unstructured data storage demands and enhancing information
access options in a more cost-effective manner.
Built on the industry-leading Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system,
Red Hat Storage provides freedom of choice by allowing customers to
deploy cost-effective, scalable and highly available storage without
compromising on scale or performance. Red Hat Storage Server can easily
be deployed on-premise, in private clouds, in public cloud
infrastructures or hybrid cloud environments and is optimized for
storage-intensive enterprise workloads including high-performance
computing, near-line archival and rich media content clouds.
Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 also features the following key innovations:
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Expanded choice, offering compatibility with more than 50
dual-socket x86-based servers from industry leaders
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Open and standards-based, Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 features
support for industry-leading file access protocols including Common
Internet File System (CIFS), Network File System (NFS), HTTP and
OpenStack Swift; and
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Control without compromising data accessibility and availability,
including geo-replication, equipping Red Hat Storage to handle the
most demanding production workloads.
Available only in Technology Preview, Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 is also
offering support for big data infrastructure, with compatibility for
Apache Hadoop that provides a new storage option for Hadoop deployments.
With the ability to install Red Hat Storage in Hadoop environments,
either in combination and along with Hadoop Distributed File System
(HDFS), or as a replacement for HDFS, this Red Hat Storage Server 2.0
technology preview enables faster file access and opens up data within
Hadoop deployments to other file-based or object-based applications.
Also available only in Technology Preview is a management console for
Red Hat Storage. Based on the oVirt Project — the open source
infrastructure and virtualization management platform — the Red Hat
Storage Server 2.0 management console technology preview gives users
visibility and control into their storage clusters via a single pane of
glass.
Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 is available immediately, and launches with
an industry-leading ecosystem, giving users access to a broad selection
of storage services.
To learn more about this announcement, join Red Hat for a press
conference 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, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat
"After
several months of successful beta testing at leading companies around
the world, coupled with the progress we've made since we entered the
scale-out storage market last fall when Red Hat acquired Gluster, we're
excited to remove the beta label and offer Red Hat Storage Server to the
market. In the coming years, open source storage solutions and volume
x86 servers are expected to transform the storage market in the same way
that Linux and volume x86 servers transformed the server market, and
with Red Hat Storage we're positioning ourselves to be at the very
forefront of this industry transformation."
James VanEe, IT director, Institute for Biotechnology and Life
Science Technologies, Cornell University
"The Cornell Center
for Advanced Computing (CAC) uses Red Hat Storage to support our
Institute of Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies, which needed a
storage platform robust enough to handle data produced by Genomics,
Proteomics and Imaging technologies. With Red Hat Storage, we have
gained a highly scalable and reliable storage solution that has allowed
us to adapt to our growing IT needs while remaining cost-effective."
Hideto Kamio, manager, Information Systems Div., System
Infrastructure Management Dept., IT Platform Dept. at SOFTBANK TELECOM
Corp.
"With a variety of choices for large distributed file
systems on commoditized x86 servers, we value Red Hat Storage highly
because it reduces the complexity of our infrastructure by delivering
availability, stability and ease of implementation and operation. There
is a need for scalable storage infrastructures for use in public clouds,
on-premise and hybrid clouds. We strongly believe Red Hat Storage will
be an excellent fit for enterprise-class use cases, similar to other Red
Hat products."
Terri McClure, senior storage analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
"Red
Hat is helping to pave the way for a fundamental change in the way
storage is sold and consumed. With software-based, scale-out unified
file and object storage, deployable on-premise or in the public cloud,
supporting unstructured and semi-structured big data, Red Hat customers
are now able to standardize on a scalable storage infrastructure that
supports a broad range of application and user information accessibly
requirements."
Stan Zaffos, vice president and research director, Storage, Gartner
"Users
desperate to contain storage costs while satisfying an ever-expanding
need for big data and archive storage are ready to embrace solutions
that deliver commodity economics without sacrificing availability or
performance. Scale-out storage built using professionally supported open
source storage software running on x86 servers configured with direct
attached storage components offer both low cost and high product
attractiveness."
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1 Cisco, "The Internet of Things: How the Next Evolution
of the Internet is Changing Everything," April 2011, available at http://bit.ly/JYd9iI.
2 Computerworld, "World's data will grow by 50x in the
next decade, IDC study predicts," June 28, 2011, available at http://bit.ly/K06D9C.
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