Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage solutions now
available to Red Hat business partners, embedded partners, and cloud and
service providers
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 Red Hat Storage
portfolio of open, software-defined storage solutions on an expanded
range of routes to market. By making Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat
Gluster Storage solutions part of the Red Hat Connect for Business
Partners and Red Hat Embedded programs, and for Red Hat Certified Cloud
and Service Providers in 2016, Red Hat partners can now create new
business opportunities for today's and tomorrow's enterprise storage
workloads.
Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage are open source,
scale-out software-defined storage solutions that run on commodity
hardware and have durable, programmable architectures. Each Red Hat
Storage product is well-suited for different enterprise workloads,
bringing compelling benefits to enterprises. Enterprise customers can
work with a variety of partners to purchase and deploy Red Hat Storage
solutions.
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Red Hat Connect Business Partners
Generally available today, Red Hat Ceph Storage joins Red Hat Gluster
Storage in the Red Hat Connect for Business Partners program. Red Hat
Advanced and Premier partners that meet the training requirements for
their region's partner program via Red Hat Online Partner Enablement
Network (OPEN) are authorized to sell Red Hat Storage solutions.
Resellers benefit from competitive and flexible pricing models and an
opportunity to earn additional margin and/or recurring revenue.
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Red Hat Embedded Partners
Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage subscriptions are
scheduled to be available to partners through the Red Hat Embedded
Program by the end of 2015. Partners will be able to more quickly and
efficiently deliver comprehensive storage offerings to market built upon
Red Hat's trusted storage technologies.
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Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Providers
Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage are scheduled to become
available to Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Providers in 2016.
Training and certification, marketing and sales programs, and technical
content for Red Hat Storage solutions will be available to certified
partners in the Red Hat Connect for Business Partners portal.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage and Big
Data, Red Hat
"Today's announcement makes Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster
Storage available to enterprises in more ways than ever before. Red
Hat's open, software-defined storage products provide flexibility to
present exciting business opportunities for our global resellers and our
embedded, cloud and service provider partners."
Ashish Nadkarni, program director, IDC
"Businesses are eager to transform their IT departments to embrace next
generation applications. Such technologies and services (what IDC
collectively refers to as 3rd platform technologies and services)
require an agile and data driven infrastructure. With an open and
community-based software-defined approach Red Hat is in a unique
position to capitalize on this transformation. By making their Ceph
Storage and Gluster Storage enterprise-procurement friendly, Red Hat is
positioning itself as a formidable IT storage supplier."
Dr. Lukas Pustina, principal cloud engineer, codecentric and head of
operations, CenterDevice
"codecentric and CenterDevice built a cloud-based document management
platform capable of storing and sharing millions of documents for its
customers. For this solution, we teamed up with our partner, Red Hat, as
a market leader that could similarly deliver high performance, as well
as innovation, services, and expertise in the software-defined storage
realm. Together with Red Hat, we can deliver technologies to deploy
petabyte-scale storage quickly, reliably, and economically."
Paul Evans, principal architect, Daystrom
"Storage is a critical component of IT, and savvy business leaders know
it's time to move to software-centric solutions. That's exactly why we
partnered with Red Hat. Red Hat Storage provides the key ingredients for
success today: trusted enterprise software, a smart network of partners,
and solid 24x7 support—tools that businesses need to remain viable in a
technology-driven world. As Red Hat unveils its programs for the
enterprise distribution channel, Daystrom is pleased to be helping drive
them. We believe that software-defined storage--the open source way--is
the route to take to market."
Bernhard Brandwitte, vice president, Global Storage Business, Fujitsu
"Integrating Red Hat Ceph Storage software with Fujitsu's
performance-optimized system technology into a fully integrated and
end-to-end serviced storage system called ETERNUS CD10000, we enable IT
organizations to more quickly benefit from open source while avoiding
operational risks. As a Red Hat embedded partner, Fujitsu contributes to
enterprise-class data service levels for software-defined and hyperscale
storage."
Seok-Mo Hong, team manager, PentaLink
"At PentaLink, we wanted to partner with Red Hat because we're focused
on deploying our OpenStack-based cloud environment efficiently and
cost-effectively and Red Hat Ceph Storage was our top choice for its
object and block storage capabilities. It was an easy choice, really,
because we believe that an alliance with Red Hat, the market's leading
open source software provider, gives us a competitive advantage over
traditional storage vendors, not just in the cloud, but across the
storage market."
Mike Yang, general manager, Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT)
"Ceph and Gluster offerings from Red Hat fit an important need in our
storage solutions lineup. QCT is working with technology and channel
partners to build a portfolio of open source, scale-out, and
software-defined offerings that take full advantage of our hardware
lineup. Red Hat knows open source for the enterprise, and we're pleased
to work with them as part of the Red Hat Connect for Business Partners
program."
Robin Porter, business development manager, Quru
"Quru is about providing inspired open source solutions, so it makes
sense that we would partner in the channel with Red Hat, the leading
provider of open source software solutions. We're pleased to share a
community-powered approach with Red Hat and to partner with them to
reduce costs and increase operational agility through software-defined
storage."
Stefan van Oirschot, director operations, Rhodix
"As one of Red Hat's first Certified Cloud Infrastructure Premier
Partners in the Netherlands with expertise building private clouds and
implementing next-generation storage products, Rhodix offers a clear
choice as Red Hat cultivates alternate routes to market globally. With
our ability to implement the complete cloud infrastructure stack, we're
well poised to help Red Hat push the storage envelope and pleased that
we're both moving forward on a trajectory toward next-generation,
petabyte-scale deployments."
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