Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage together give
enterprises a comprehensive offering for emerging data storage workloads
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced worldwide availability of a unified open
software-defined storage portfolio that brings together Red Hat Ceph
Storage, formerly known as Inktank Ceph Enterprise, and Red Hat Gluster
Storage, formerly known as Red Hat Storage Server. The unified Red Hat
Storage portfolio helps enterprises manage their current and emerging
data storage workloads using open source software and standard hardware.
Today's announcement is an important milestone in the continued momentum
of Red Hat's charter to bring open software-defined storage to
enterprises that began with the acquisition of Gluster, Inc., in October
2011, and continued with the acquisition
of Inktank, Inc., provider of Ceph, in May 2014. The product
developed by Inktank has gone through Red Hat's quality engineering
processes and is now a fully-supported Red Hat solution, re-branded as
Red Hat Ceph Storage.
Both Red Hat Gluster Storage and Red Hat Ceph Storage are open source,
scale-out software-defined storage solutions that run on commodity
hardware and have durable, programmable architectures. However, each is
well suited for different sets of enterprise workloads, bringing unique
and compelling benefits to the enterprise customer. Validated to work
with leading partner hardware and software solutions, the Red Hat
Storage portfolio gives enterprise customers the confidence that their
storage workloads are optimized for open, software-designed storage.
Red Hat Gluster Storage is well suited for enterprise virtualization,
analytics and enterprise sync and share workloads. Red Hat Ceph Storage
is well suited for cloud infrastructure workloads, such as OpenStack.
Both Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage address workloads
for archival and rich media, providing customers with choice and
ensuring the best fit for their specific storage requirements.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage and Big
Data, Red Hat
"The Red Hat Storage product portfolio and open software-defined storage
vision can truly help enterprise customers manage storage for current
and emerging workloads in fast-growing new cloud infrastructures, such
as OpenStack."
Nithya Ruff, director, Open Source Strategy Office, SanDisk
"SanDisk is committed to open source software and is helping to further
its rapid movement towards flash-intelligent storage platforms. This is
evidenced by our recent introduction of InfiniFlash™, a new storage
system that utilizes open source Ceph software to tightly integrate
flash technology with the data storage capabilities in OpenStack
infrastructures. The unified Red Hat Storage portfolio combined with
SanDisk's solutions, provide a workload-centric approach to solving
customers' current and future storage applications and IT challenges."
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