Red Hat Storage on Hyperscale HP ProLiant Servers Deliver a Scalable
Open Software-defined Storage Platform
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the availability of the open software-defined
storage experience at the HP Customer Center located in Grenoble,
France. Enterprise IT customers managing big, unstructured data
workloads can now gain first-hand knowledge of open software-defined
storage on leading storage servers through a hands-on experience of the
combined Red Hat Storage and HP ProLiant SL4540 Gen8 solution. In
addition, Red Hat and HP launched a solution portal for online
demonstrations of the joint solution and various workloads.
Software-defined storage comes in second in the top ten trends you need
to watch according to Gartner's December 2013 webinar, "Top Ten Trends
and Their Impact on IT Infrastructure and Operations."1 In
addition, the same Gartner webinar cites, "In the next 5 years the
average enterprise will see data capacities grow more than 800%." This
near-term data explosion calls for IT managers to immediately consider
the value of an integrated software-defined storage and compute solution
that can easily scale in a flexible and cost-effective way.
The HP ProLiant SL4540 Gen8 servers provide up to three HP ProLiant
compatible servers integrated with up to 60 storage drives for an
extremely flexible storage server configuration. Designed specifically
for big data environments, the HP ProLiant SL4540 Gen8 server reduces
cost and power consumption through breakthrough storage density and
flexible server configurations delivered within a dense 4.3U package,
providing as much as 240TB of storage per standard rack.
Red Hat Storage connects the individual storage servers into a unified
cluster of scale-out storage for unstructured data. Built on the trusted
Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and the proven GlusterFS
distributed file system, Red Hat Storage provides a reliable,
open-source storage solution for unstructured data by easily scaling to
petabytes while offering common data management services such as
pooling, partitioning, mirroring, and load balancing across a cluster of
storage servers, coupled with multi-site data replication.
Supporting Quotes
Brent Compton, director, ecosystem, Storage and Big Data, Red Hat
"Multiple
HP ProLiant SL4540 Gen8 servers clustered through Red Hat Storage offer
a compelling alternative to more expensive, proprietary scale-out
storage appliances. Open software-defined storage is all about breaking
down high-cost closed storage systems into lower cost, higher-value
software and hardware elements. We are pleased to help our customers
explore the powerful benefits of open software-defined storage running
on standard servers at the HP Customer Center in Grenoble."
John Gromala, senior director of product management, HP Servers, HP
"The
accelerated growth of data volumes driven by mobile, cloud and big data
is creating major challenges for customers. HP ProLiant SL4540 Gen8
servers, integrated with leading software storage solutions such as Red
Hat Storage, will enable our customers to evaluate this innovative
solution and give them the tools to deploy to address their data
challenges."
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1 Gartner, Top 10 Trends and Their Impact on IT
Infrastructure and Operations, David Cappuccio, December 18, 2013
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