Red Hat Storage scales to petabytes, preserves existing IT
infrastructure investments and adapts for seamless data growth
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Red Hat Storage helps re-engineer the
storage functionality for higher education IT environments - including
McMaster University and University of Reading - to manage the growing
challenges of big data. A truly open, software-only storage solution
based on community-driven innovation, Red Hat Storage helps universities
manage petabyte-scale workloads to help produce important research and
enable more effective online courses.
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Founded in 1887 by Senator William McMaster, McMaster University ranks
sixth in the country in university research intensity and is known for
developing the learning approach, the "McMaster Model", that is now
adopted by universities worldwide. McMaster University was in the middle
of a major ERP software deployment when it needed a new storage system
with high availability and data replication capabilities. Having already
invested heavily in storage hardware, the university searched for a
cost-effective and reliable software-defined storage solution and found
it in Red Hat Storage Server. The results have given McMaster University
the flexibility it needs to take care of both existing and future
storage requirements.
The university's Red Hat Storage Server deployment can be expanded or
upgraded in real-time without disrupting operations. One of the primary
reasons the university implemented Red Hat Storage Server is that it
could continue to add more highly available storage to their environment
without compromising on performance and without impacting downtime.
University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom (U.K.)
Established in 1892, the University of Reading is a leading force in
British and international higher education and is ranked in the top one
percent of universities in the world. It is the only U.K. university to
offer a full range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in
meteorology. The university's Department of Meteorology needed a highly
reliable, available, and scalable storage file system to manage data for
its scientific research projects in weather, climate, and earth
observation.
With Red Hat Storage Server, the department saves IT staff valuable time
previously spent on maintenance and administration. Two new
high-capacity servers have been deployed with Red Hat Storage to enable
the system to scale to support 300 terabytes of data. Additionally, the
department is gradually adding data from older, stand-alone servers to
host more than 1 petabyte of data in total.
Supporting Quotes
Wayde Nie, lead architect, University Technology Services, McMaster
University
"I showed Red Hat Storage Server to our operations
people, who are ultimately the ones who will have to support it, and
they were amazed at how intuitive and easy it was to use. We have a
heavily virtualized environment; and we wanted software-defined storage,
network, and compute to work within that environment. If you export the
raw storage that resides in the Red Hat Storage software-defined layer,
then you get the flexibility to export it and replicate it however you
require. That was absolutely key for us."
Dan Bretherton, High Performance Computing manager, Department of
Meteorology, University of Reading
"My priorities are to ensure
not only that the department can store hundreds of terabytes of research
data efficiently and securely, but that good performance is maintained
as the I/O load from our growing compute cluster increases. When I
started talking to Red Hat, I received the assurances I needed that the
challenges I'd experienced with managing scale-out storage could be
solved. I also knew I'd get the extra help I needed from Red Hat to
fine-tune the product for our academic, data-intensive HPC environment."
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