Red Hat Storage Solutions Advance in Product Capabilities, Routes to
Market, and Community Driven Innovation
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the achievement of several key milestones
during its initial year in the global data storage solutions market,
including Red Hat Storage product capabilities, routes-to-market, and
open source community involvement. This momentum allows Red Hat Storage
solutions to address the growing demand for cost-effective and scalable
storage that help enterprises manage the exploding volume of
unstructured data.
Only months after entering the storage market in the fall of 2011 with
the acquisition of Gluster, Inc., Red Hat delivered the Red Hat Storage
appliance based on GlusterFS community technology. In June 2012, Red
Hat Storage Server 2.0 became available worldwide, providing
enterprise customers with open, unified scale-out storage software.
"We are proud to articulate the significant developments in our storage
strategy and technologies in response to the interest in software-only
scale out storage solutions from enterprise CIOs around the world," said
Sarangan Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage
Business Unit, Red Hat. "Red Hat Storage servers transform the
enterprise and cloud storage market by combining community-powered
innovation with the volume economics of industry-standard x86 servers
across on-premise, private cloud or open hybrid cloud environments."
The following are Red Hat Storage achievement highlights to date.
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Product: Since its general availability
in June 2012, Red Hat Storage Servers 2.0 are deployed by more than
100 enterprises around the world, in both production and
proof-of-concept deployments. Now integrated with Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization (in beta), Red Hat Storage
provides customers with the fundamental building blocks to create
storage for open hybrid clouds. Red Hat Storage also has a new
management console (in technology preview) that provides customers
with fine-grain control of their unified scale-out storage pool
through a single pane of glass.
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Channel Enablement: In the last several
months, Red Hat Storage routes-to-market greatly expanded with 30+ new
enterprise ISVs/resellers in authorization process to broaden the
reach to enterprises worldwide.
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Community: The Gluster Community has
grown to enjoy 50,000+ monthly visitors, 160 percent growth in
community participation since Nov. 2011, 160,000+ GlusterFS downloads
while expanding into more countries in the Americas, EMEA and Asia
Pacific.
Red Hat Storage is a software-only scale-out storage solution that spans
the data center and cloud with a single global namespace, creating a
flexible and highly scalable enterprise storage solution that offers
lower costs because it runs on x86 compute platforms. Red Hat Storage
can be easily deployed on-premise, in private clouds, in public cloud
infrastructures or hybrid cloud environments and can be optimized for
storage-intensive enterprise workloads including high-performance
computing, near-line archival and rich media content clouds. Red Hat
Storage Server for Public Cloud takes advantage of Amazon® AWS Elastic
Block Storage (EBS) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances to give
enterprises a cost-effective scale out storage solution.
During today's press webcast at 12:30 p.m. ET, Red Hat will provide an
in-depth update on Red Hat Storage strategy and technologies. A live
question and answer session will follow the presentation by Rangachari.
Questions can be submitted directly via the webcast platform, sent to press@redhat.com
or submitted through Twitter via the hashtag #redhat. To register for
this press webcast or view the replay, please visit here.
Additional Resources
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For more information about Red Hat Storage visit here
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For more information about The Gluster Community visit www.gluster.org
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