Red Hat to Contribute Red Hat Storage Hadoop Plug-in to Apache Hadoop
Community
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced its big data direction and solutions to
satisfy enterprise requirements for highly reliable, scalable, and
manageable solutions to effectively run their big data analytics
workloads. In addition, Red Hat announced that the company will
contribute its Red Hat Storage Hadoop plug-in to the ApacheTM
Hadoop® open community to transform Red Hat Storage into a
fully-supported, Hadoop-compatible file system for big data
environments, and that Red Hat is building a robust network of ecosystem
and enterprise integration partners to deliver comprehensive big data
solutions to enterprise customers. This is another example of Red Hat's
strategic commitment to big data customers and its continuing efforts to
provide them with enterprise solutions through community-driven
innovation.
Red Hat big data infrastructure and application platforms are ideally
suited for enterprises leveraging the open hybrid cloud environment. Red
Hat is working with the open cloud community to support big data
customers. Many enterprises worldwide use public cloud infrastructure,
such as Amazon® Web Services (AWS), for the development,
proof-of-concept, and pre-production phases of their big data projects.
The workloads are then moved to their private clouds to scale up the
analytics with the larger data set. An open hybrid cloud environment
enables enterprises to transfer workloads from the public cloud into
their private cloud without the need to re-tool their applications. Red
Hat is actively engaged in the open cloud community through projects
like OpenStack and OpenShift Origin to help meet these enterprise big
data expectations both today and in the future.
Today, there are several Red Hat solutions available to effectively
manage enterprise big data workloads. Focused on three primary areas,
Red Hat's big data direction includes extending its product portfolio to
deliver enhanced enterprise-class infrastructure solutions and
application platforms, and partnering with leading big data analytics
vendors and integrators.
Red Hat's Big Data Infrastructure Solutions
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux — According to the Jan. 2012 The
Linux Foundation Enterprise Linux User Report, the majority of big
data implementations run on Linux and as the leading provider of
commercial Linux1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a leading
platform for big data deployments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux excels in
distributed architectures and includes features that address critical
big data needs. Managing tremendous data volumes and intensive
analytic processing requires an infrastructure designed for high
performance, reliability, fine-grained resource management, and
scale-out storage. Red Hat Enterprise Linux addresses these challenges
while adding the ability to develop, integrate, and secure big data
applications reliably and scale easily to keep up with the pace that
data is generated, analyzed, or transferred. This can be accomplished
in the cloud, making it easier to store, aggregate, normalize, and
integrate data from sources across multiple platforms, whether they
are deployed as physical, virtual, or cloud-based resources.
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Red Hat Storage — Built on the trusted Red Hat Enterprise Linux
operating system and the proven GlusterFS distributed file system, Red
Hat Storage Servers can be used to pool inexpensive commodity servers
to provide a cost-effective, scalable, and reliable storage solution
for big data.
Announced today, Red Hat intends to make its Hadoop plug-in for Red Hat
Storage available to the Hadoop community later this year. Currently in
technology preview, the Red Hat Storage Apache Hadoop plug-in provides a
new storage option for enterprise Hadoop deployments that delivers
enterprise storage features while maintaining the API compatibility and
local data access the Hadoop community expects. Red Hat Storage brings
enterprise-class features to big data environments, such as Geo
replication, High Availability, POSIX compliance, disaster recovery, and
management, without compromising API compatibility and data locality.
Customers now have a unified data and scale out storage software
platform to accommodate files and objects deployed across physical,
virtual, public and hybrid cloud resources.
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization — Announced in Dec. 2012, Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 is integrated with Red Hat Storage,
enabling it to access the secure, shared storage pool managed by Red
Hat Storage. This integration also offers enterprises reduced
operational costs, expanded portability, choice of infrastructure,
scalability, availability and the power of community-driven innovation
with the contributions of the open source oVirt and Gluster projects.
The combination of these platforms furthers Red Hat's open hybrid
cloud vision of an integrated and converged Red Hat Storage and Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization node that serves both compute and
storage resources.
Red Hat's Big Data Application and Integration
Platforms
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Red Hat JBoss Middleware — Red Hat JBoss Middleware provides
enterprises with powerful technologies for creating and integrating
big data-driven applications that are able to interact with new and
emerging technologies like Hadoop or MongoDB. Big data is only
valuable when businesses can extract information and respond
intelligently. Red Hat JBoss Middleware solutions can populate large
volumes and varieties of data quickly and reliably into Hadoop with
high speed messaging technologies; simplify working with MongoDB
through Hibernate OGM; process large volumes of data quickly and
easily with Red Hat JBoss Data Grid; access Hadoop along with your
traditional data sources with JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform;
and identify opportunities and threats through pattern recognition
with JBoss Enterprise BRMS. Red Hat's middleware portfolio is
well-suited to help enterprises seize the opportunities of big data.
Big Data Partnerships
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Big Data Ecosystem Partners — To provide a comprehensive big
data solution set to enterprises, Red Hat plans to partner with
leading big data software and hardware providers to offer
interoperability. Development of certified and documented reference
architectures are expected to allow users to integrate and install
comprehension enterprise big data solutions.
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Enterprise Partners — Red Hat anticipates enabling the delivery
of a comprehensive big data solution to its customers through leading
enterprise integration partners utilizing the reference architectures
developed by Red Hat and its big data ecosystem partners.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat
"With today's announcement, Red Hat demonstrates its strong commitment
to continue to provide enterprise infrastructure and platforms to
effectively run big data applications today and in the growing open
hybrid cloud environment. With true enterprise-class offerings, Red Hat
leverages the power of the open source community to give our big data
customers a choice in technology, deployment environments, and partners."
Ashish Nadkarni, research director, Storage Systems and co-lead, Big
Data Global Overview, IDC
"Red Hat is uniquely positioned to excel in enterprise big data
solutions, a market that IDC expects to grow from $6 billion in 2011 to
$23.8 billion in 2016.2 Red Hat is one of the very few
infrastructure providers that can deliver a comprehensive big data
solution because of the breadth of its infrastructure solutions and
application platforms for on-premises or cloud delivery models. As a
leading contributor to open source communities developing essential
technologies for the big data IT stack — from Linux to OpenStack Origin
and Gluster — Red Hat will continue to play a pivotal role in Big Data."
During today's press webcast at 11:30 a.m. ET, Red Hat will provide more
information on its big data direction 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux visit here
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For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization visit here
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For more information about Red Hat JBoss Middleware visit here
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For more information about Red Hat and open hybrid cloud visit here
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1 IDC Worldwide Linux Client & Server Operating Environments
2012 — 2016 Forecast and 2011 Vendor Shares, July 2012
2 Big Data: Global Overview: Market Analysis, December 2012,
IDC #238746, Volume: 1
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