Red Hat Storage Server 3 advances file storage and Apache Hadoop big
data services for business critical workloads
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the availability of the newest major release
of Red Hat Storage Server, an industry leading open software-defined
storage solution for scale-out file storage. The advanced capabilities
in Red Hat Storage 3 are well-suited for data-intensive enterprise
workloads including big data, operational analytics and enterprise file
sharing and collaboration. With its proven and validated workload
solutions, Red Hat Storage Server 3 enables enterprises to curate
enterprise data to increase responsiveness, control costs and improve
operational efficiency.
Red Hat is committed to building agile storage solutions through
community-driven innovation to drive agility within the enterprise so as
to better respond to competitive threats and changes in the evolving IT
landscape. Based on open source GlusterFS 3.6 file system and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Storage Server 3 is designed to easily scale
to support petabytes of data and offer granular control of your storage
environment while lowering the overall cost of storage.
Highlights of the new capabilities of Red Hat Storage Server 3 include:
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Increased scale and capacity by more than
three times with support for up to 60 drives per server, up from 36,
and 128 servers per cluster, up from 64, providing a usable capacity
of up to 19 petabytes per cluster.
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Improved data protection and operational control
of storage clusters, including:
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volume snapshots for point-in-time copy of critical data, and
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comprehensive monitoring of the storage cluster using open,
industry standard frameworks, such as Nagios and SNMP.
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Easy integration with emerging big data
analytics environments with support for a Hadoop File System
Plug-In that enables running ApacheTM Hadoop® workloads on
the storage server, as well as tight integration with Apache Ambari
for management and monitoring of Hadoop and underlying storage.
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More hardware choice and flexibility,
including support for SSD for low latency workloads, and a
significantly expanded hardware compatibility list (HCL) for greater
choice in hardware platforms.
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Rapid deployment with RPM-based
distribution option offering maximum deployment flexibility to
existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux users. Customers can now easily add
Red Hat Storage Server to existing pre-installed Red Hat Enterprise
Linux deployments.
Red Hat Storage Server 3 has significant ecosystem support from its
industry-leading technology partners including Cisco
and HP
together with integration partners including International
Integrated Solutions Ltd., and Function1
to ease enterprise deployment. In addition, Red Hat has collaborated
with leading enterprise software vendors Splunk®,
Hortonworks®
and ownCloud
to enable solution architectures for log and cyber security analytics,
Apache Hadoop, and enterprise file sharing and collaboration,
respectively. Our customers and partners can utilize these proven
solution architectures as blueprints to deploy best of breed solutions
to address specific customer workload environments.
Red Hat Storage Server 3 complements the July 2014 delivery of Red
Hat's Inktank Ceph Enterprise version 1.2.
In May 2014, Red
Hat acquired Inktank, provider
of Ceph and Inktank Ceph Enterprise open source storage solutions. Red
Hat's Inktank Ceph Enterprise delivers object and block storage software
to enterprises deploying public or private clouds, including many early
adopters of OpenStack. The addition of Red Hat's Ceph Enterprise to Red
Hat's storage product portfolio gives customers a comprehensive offering
of open software-defined storage solutions across object, block and file
system storage.
Virtual Event and Announcement Webcast
Learn more about this announcement and Red Hat Storage Server 3 from Red
Hat executives, customers and partners today at 11 a.m. ET, Thursday,
Oct. 2, 2014. The keynote and presentations will also be available
on-demand following the live event. To register and join the live event
or to access the on-demand replay content, visit https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/Qreg.htm?ShowKey=20966.
For more information about the event and its agenda, visit http://www.redhat.com/en/about/events/advancing-software-defined-storage.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage and Big
Data, Red Hat
"Red Hat is committed to providing enterprise customers with a
comprehensive open, software-defined storage portfolio spanning
physical, virtual and cloud environments. With this latest release, Red
Hat is leading the charge on open, software-defined storage to help
build agile enterprises that can rapidly gain competitive advantage by
leveraging the tangible value hidden inside unstructured data."
Simon Robinson, research vice president, Storage, 451 Research
"The enterprise wants their IT stack to look - and behave - like a
cloud, so the storage infrastructure must support this change. Within
many enterprise IT departments, this is prompting a fundamental rethink
of storage strategy. Red Hat's software-defined storage portfolio offers
an open source alternative to proprietary technology stacks to address
mounting challenges around the growth of enterprise data."
Satinder Sethi, Vice President, Engineering, Cisco Data Center
Solutions
"As an established leader in enterprise security solutions, and a
rapidly growing leader in enterprise servers, Cisco is excited to team
with Red Hat to offer an open source software-defined storage solution
for Splunk Enterprise deployments. Cisco UCS servers pooled with Red Hat
Storage Server software offer Splunk customers a low-cost, elastic
storage solution, as described in our new reference architecture. Our
joint customers can now increase the amount of machine-generated data
they store for Splunk analysis, making security threat patterns easier
to detect in a cost-effective way."
John Gromala, senior director, Hyperscale Product Management, HP
Servers
"Storage architectures and compute resources are rapidly evolving to
accommodate the exponential explosion in data. As a result, turning vast
pools of data into actionable insight becomes increasingly difficult and
complex. Red Hat Storage Server with the HP ProLiant SL4540 server
provides our joint customers with an integrated solution that is
purpose-built for big data, removing a significant burden in managing
and aggregating storage instances, eliminating bottlenecks and allowing
performance to scale alongside capacity; in order to unlock timely
insights from their data."
John Kreisa, vice president of strategic marketing, Hortonworks
"As Hadoop becomes the cornerstone of the modern data architecture, more
enterprises are demanding choice, flexibility and efficiency in their
big data storage platform. With the Red Hat Storage plug-in for the
Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), the industry's only 100-percent open
source Hadoop distribution, we are empowering joint customers with
seamless access to more data for deeper analysis on a cost-effective
scale-out storage solution, enabling the data-driven workloads that are
shaping the future of business."
Zdenek Sedlak, Infrastructure architect, Ikano Bank AB
"To ensure the availability of services to our customers, Ikano Bank
upgraded its internal data management process with a high availability
storage solution. With Red Hat Storage Server and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux operating system, we were able to deploy a clustered, open
software-defined storage solution. The performance of our servers
greatly increased, while the customer data batch processing time
decreased. Red Hat solutions are important to our organization because
of the security of the solutions and lack of vendor lock-in."
Marcus Rex, CEO and founder, ownCloud
"Red Hat Storage Server 3 combined with ownCloud Enterprise Edition is
the a turn-key environment well-suited for businesses looking to build
an on-premises cloud -- lowering storage costs and streamlining
information access with flexible deployment options. The combination,
running on industry-standard HP servers, gives businesses an open yet
secure and private way for their employees to collaborate with their
peers, partners and customers, sync and access files no matter where
they are, all while giving IT visibility and control."
Takeru Moriki, executive managing director, Saga IDC Co., Ltd.
"Saga IDC Co., Ltd. welcomes the latest release of Red Hat Storage 3. We
are using Red Hat Storage, distributed scale-out storage, as a service
infrastructure. We are happy to deliver the rich and stable system
environment to our customers with functional enhancements this time. We
look forward to continuous collaboration with Red Hat to provide
valuable services to our customers."
David Yaffe, technical analyst, Network and Enterprise Information
Systems, Information Systems, SaskTel
"As a full service telecommunications provider in Canada, SaskTel
provides highly available and secure telephony and data services. By
standardizing on Red Hat Storage Server on commodity hardware, we were
able to quickly scale our infrastructure to manage massive amounts of
data while significantly decreasing our costs. Because Red Hat Storage
Server integrates into our Splunk environment, we considerably increased
the quality of business insights by being able to store and analyze more
machine data for a significantly longer duration."
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