Red Hat's Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.2 delivers new levels of
flexibility and cost advantages through powerful features such as
erasure coding and cache tiering
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the availability of its Inktank Ceph
Enterprise 1.2 with new features to help customers store and manage an
entire spectrum of data - from "hot" mission-critical data to "cold"
archival data. The new functionality, coupled with enhancements to the
solution's Calamari management and monitoring platform, make Red Hat's
Inktank Ceph Enterprise storage solution a flexible and cost-effective
storage platform for enterprises managing data-intensive applications.
In May, 2014, Red
Hat acquired Inktank, provider of Ceph and Inktank Ceph
Enterprise open source storage solutions. Inktank Ceph Enterprise
delivers world class object and block storage software to enterprises
deploying public or private clouds, including many early adopters of
OpenStack. Combined with Red Hat's existing GlusterFS-based file storage
offering, the addition of Inktank positions Red Hat as one of the
leading providers of open software-defined storage across object, block
and file system storage. As part of today's announcement, Red Hat's
Inktank Ceph Enterprise supports the new Red
Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 to provide a truly
integrated OpenStack stack that is delivered from and supported by a
single vendor.
According to IDC's report "Worldwide Cold Storage Ecosystem Taxonomy",
published in March 20141, as data continues to grow at an
exponential pace, enterprises increasingly recognize the importance of
categorizing and storing data based on frequency of access and
relevance, or rather, temperature—with newer or "hot" data sets stored
with highest priority and performance. The addition of tiering
capabilities to Red Hat's Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.2 enables
enterprises to more effectively execute management of all data - from
mission-critical to archival - providing an opportunity to radically
reduce storage costs.
Red Hat's Inktank Ceph Enterprise now enables users to define pools for
storing data densely, and therefore more cost-effectively, as well as
caching pools that can deliver high-performance. The new erasure encoded
storage pools in Red Hat's Inktank Ceph Enterprise provide
enterprise-scale durability that can lower raw capacity requirements by
up to 50 percent2. Additionally, new cache tiering pools
enable both hot-to-cold and cold-to-hot data management. By combining
the power of these new features, customers can create the right blend of
price and performance tailored to their specific needs.
Continuing Red Hat's commitment to customer choice, Red Hat's Inktank
Ceph Enterprise 1.2 is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 and 7
and Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04. Key new features and benefits in Red Hat's
Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.2 include:
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Erasure Coding, making Red Hat's Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.2
suitable for archive and cold storage use cases by reducing the cost
per gig.
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Cache Tiering, enabling "hot" data to be moved onto
high-performance media when it becomes active and "cold" data to be
moved onto low-performance media when it is no longer active.
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Calamari v1.2, updating the Ceph management platform to support
management functions. These updates will enable an administrator to
manage the core functionality of the reliable autonomic distributed
object store (RADOS) storage cluster, including the ability to manage
individual storage devices and pool policies. Calamari is an
on-premise application with management tools and performance data that
simplifies operational management and enables administrators to adapt
to changes in their Ceph clusters. In May 2014, Red Hat announced
that Calamari had been open sourced as part of the upstream Ceph
community.
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Comprehensive integration with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform 4 and 5, enabling an integrated OpenStack cloud storage
and platform solution that is supported by one vendor.
Supporting Quotes
Neil Levine, director, product management, Storage and Big Data, Red
Hat
"Enterprises are under pressure to store expanding amounts of data with
limited IT budgets. As part of our commitment to redefining the
economics of software-defined storage, the new archiving and tiering
functionality in Red Hat's Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.2 enables users to
define pools for storing data densely, and therefore more
cost-effectively, as well as pools that serve data very quickly. And,
because these pools all work together, customers can now create the
blend of price and performance that's right for them for both cold and
hot data storage."
Steven Stover, director of engineered solutions. Dell
"Dell and Red Hat have partnered for more than 15 years to bring global
customers value with Red Hat open source software solutions across
Dell's enterprise offerings. Red Hat's Inktank Ceph Enterprise, which
delivers a highly scalable, reliable cloud storage solution that can
cost-effectively support different types and volumes of enterprise data,
can further enterprise customers' acceleration of OpenStack-based
clouds. We look forward to delivering Red Hat's Inktank Ceph Enterprise
1.2 to our customers in our Dell Red Hat Private Cloud Solutions."
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1 IDC report on Worldwide Cold Storage Ecosystem Taxonomy,
March 2014, #246732
2 Relative to industry standard 3x replication; actual
savings will vary depending on erasure coding parameters selected
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