SanDisk and Red Hat Form Strategic Alliance to Deliver High-Performance Flash-based Ceph Storage Solutions
InfiniFlash for Red Hat Ceph Storage offers next-generation scale-out
storage for global customers
RALEIGH, N.C. & MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, and SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK),
a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced a strategic
alliance aimed at bringing combined benefits of Ceph and flash storage
to enterprise customers. SanDisk’s award winning InfiniFlash™ flash
storage system, paired with Red Hat Ceph Storage, offers world-class
performance and efficient data management that can significantly reduce
operational and capital expenditures.
As part of the alliance, Red Hat Ceph Storage will be offered as the
preferred Ceph solution for the latest SanDisk InfiniFlash storage
system from SanDisk. The combination of open, software-defined storage
from Red Hat and flash storage from SanDisk enables companies to serve a
broad set of workloads with more tightly integrated, high-performing
storage that scales.
Red Hat Ceph Storage is an open, massively scalable, software-defined
storage solution. It is widely used in the OpenStack community, offering
a single efficient platform to support the demanding storage needs of
cloud architectures.
SanDisk’s InfiniFlash system offers the performance of an all-flash
array with the economics of a hard disk drive (HDD)-based system,
addressing the needs of medium to large deployments. Combined with Red
Hat Ceph Storage, it offers petabyte-scale capacity, high density and
peak performance to lower the cost of storage, especially for
organizations struggling to manage exponential data growth.
“We are proud to work with SanDisk on this solution. Our alliance aims
to deliver the power of scale and performance of flash technology as
never before, and we believe it has the potential to disrupt today’s
traditional, proprietary storage market,” says Ranga Rangachari, vice
president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat. “Our customers now have
an expanded portfolio of best-of-breed platforms, as SanDisk’s
InfiniFlash System and Red Hat Ceph Storage have been tested, optimized,
and certified together for optimal stability and performance.”
“At SanDisk, we strongly believe that open source drives innovation in
the technology industry. We are excited about partnering with Red Hat as
it further builds on our continued commitment to the open source
community across mobile, cloud, and enterprise deployments,” says Ravi
Swaminathan, vice president and general manager, Systems and Software
Solutions, SanDisk. “Combining SanDisk’s flash optimization and
product-specific innovations with the leading stacks and standards of
open source software like Red Hat Ceph Storage enables InfiniFlash to
deliver breakthrough scale, performance and agility for Hyperscale and
large-scale OpenStack environments.”
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About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company,
is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For more than 27 years,
SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of storage, providing trusted and
innovative products that have transformed the electronics industry.
Today, SanDisk’s quality, state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of
many of the world's largest data centers, and embedded in advanced
smartphones, tablets and PCs. SanDisk’s consumer products are available
at hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide. For more
information, visit www.sandisk.com.
InfiniFlash is part of SanDisk’s systems and software solutions
portfolio, which enables the flash-transformed data center through
integrated, tested and supported flash solution building blocks for
today’s enterprise and cloud workloads, including virtualization, tier-1
databases, big data analytics and digital media repositories, for an
experience never before thought possible with extreme performance,
massive capacity and immediate access to information.
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SanDisk's Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements, including
statements about the continued collaboration between SanDisk and Red Hat
to work together on all-flash storage solutions for enterprise, and the
functionalities, performance and cost advantages of all-flash storage
systems. There are a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause
these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate including, among
others: the failure of all-flash storage systems to achieve the various
functionality, performance and cost benefits currently anticipated;
potential delays in product development or lack of customer acceptance
of SanDisk’s all-flash storage systems; failure to manage and continue
the relationship with Red Hat, general business and economic conditions;
weakness in demand in all-flash storage systems; industry and technology
trends not occurring in the timeline SanDisk anticipates or at all; and
the other risks detailed from time-to-time in SanDisk’s Securities and
Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to,
its annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 3,
2016. All statements made in this news release are made only as of the
date of this release. SanDisk undertakes no obligations to update the
information in this release in the event facts or circumstances change
after the date of this release.
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Red Hat to compete effectively; the ability to deliver and stimulate
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industry consolidation; the integration of acquisitions and the ability
to market successfully acquired technologies and products; uncertainty
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These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as
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Red Hat is a trademark or registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. or
its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. SanDisk is a trademark
of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the U.S. and other countries.
InfiniFlash is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation. The OpenStack mark is
either a registered trademark/service mark or trademark/service mark of
the OpenStack Foundation, in the United States and other countries, and
is used with the OpenStack Foundation's permission. Red Hat is not
affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by the OpenStack Foundation, or
the OpenStack community.
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