Expands customer capabilities to deploy scalable hybrid cloud storage
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced it has expanded its alliance with Google to
deliver Red
Hat Gluster Storage on Google
Cloud Platform. Red Hat Gluster Storage is a shared-nothing,
scale-out solution available to Google Cloud Platform customers seeking
elastic and robust file storage across public and hybrid cloud
environments.
Deploying Red Hat Gluster Storage on Google Cloud Platform enables
customers to deploy the same storage technology on-premises and on
Google Cloud Platform so users can take their existing applications with
them as they move into the cloud. Traditional hardware storage solutions
do not offer this level of flexibility - open, software-defined storage
found in Red Hat Gluster Storage can provide the level of compatibility
and agility required for hybrid cloud infrastructures.
Google Cloud Platform customers deploying Red Hat Gluster Storage can
benefit from the following capabilities.
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Elastic scalability - With Red Hat Gluster Storage, customers
can have the elastic scalability to enable them to meet evolving
business demands for their public cloud environments. Aggregating
multiple Google Persistent Disks, Red Hat Gluster Storage can create a
single, more secure and highly available storage pool that can scale
to petabytes of data in minutes without disruption.
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Agility - Red Hat Gluster Storage provides the agility required
to migrate data and applications to the public cloud or to extend
on-premises storage infrastructure to the cloud. The POSIX-compatible
distributed file system makes deploying a variety of applications to
Google Cloud Platform possible by providing a compatible, universal
storage platform without having to rewrite applications.
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Robust data protection for on-premise data - With Red Hat
Gluster Storage, customers can integrate cloud into their backup or
data protection strategy. The public cloud can serve as a backup or
disaster recovery solution for production data or applications,
enabling customers to replicate data from on-premises environments to
Google Cloud Platform.
Availability for Red Hat Gluster Storage on Google Cloud Platform Google
continues the companies' work to bring Red Hat solutions to Google Cloud
Platform. Google joined the Red
Hat Certified Cloud Provider program in November 2013. In December
2013, Red Hat announced availability of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux enabled for Red Hat Cloud Access on Google Compute
Engine. Red Hat Cloud Access is a feature included in select Red Hat
subscriptions to enable Provider. More recently, Red Hat JBoss
Middleware, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host,
and Red
Hat OpenShift Dedicated
became available on Google Cloud Platform.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage and Big
Data, Red Hat
"Storage has evolved beyond a hardware-centric approach, especially as
enterprises increasingly build and deploy applications on-premises and
in public and hybrid clouds. Modern applications need flexible storage
solutions that can scale-out as business needs change, managing
petabytes of data in a variety of environments. We are excited to expand
our alliance with Google to bring even more choice to the hybrid cloud:
whether on-premise or in the public cloud with Google Cloud Platform,
customers can rely on their Red Hat Gluster Storage to meet growing
storage needs."
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