Red Hat and QCT Collaborate on Systems for OpenStack and Ceph
IT Leaders Enabling Linux-Based Software-Defined Infrastructure
Through Joint Testing, Reference Architectures, and Cloud Solution Center
RALEIGH, N.C. & SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology), a global datacenter
solution provider, today announced plans to combine key Red Hat
offerings - including Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, Red
Hat Ceph Storage, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux - with QCT's family of
servers, storages and network switches. Red Hat and QCT are working
together to increase private and hybrid cloud deployments, and to enable
customer success on the combined offerings through joint testing,
validations, reference architectures, and more.
Red Hat has emerged as a private and hybrid cloud leader, with open
source solutions spanning the datacenter’s four footprints - from bare
metal and virtualized environments to private and public cloud. Red Hat
is also a staunch supporter and leading provider of OpenStack - both in
contributions to the upstream OpenStack community as well as delivery of
a production-ready OpenStack platform to enterprise customers. It is
also the principal sponsor of Ceph, the unified, scalable distributed
storage platform that is preferred among users and developers of
OpenStack-based clouds.
QCT
is a global hyperscale datacenter solution provider. The company’s
products are designed to deliver the benefits of hyperscale performance,
in standard SKUs and for customers of all sizes. QCT is a longtime
supporter of the OpenStack project, as well as Open Compute and others.
Red Hat and QCT plan to collaborate on a number of initiatives,
including:
- QCT'sCloud Solution Centers - Unveiled in late 2015
with the support of Red Hat and others, the Cloud Solution Centers in
San Jose, Calif., and Taiwan help customers experience, test and
implement QCT's software-defined infrastructure solutions for more
efficient and powerful private and hybrid cloud development and
receive guidance from industry experts like Red Hat on the deployment
of open cloud technologies.
- Joint Reference Architectures - Following extensive testing and
validation, Red Hat and QCT architects have developed several
reference architectures to enable customer deployment success with Red
Hat Ceph Storage - a massively scalable and open software-defined
storage platform - and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform - a
highly scalable, production-ready Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
solution, on QCT servers, storages and switches. Reference
architecture is available for Red Hat Ceph Storage on the
configuration of QCT QxStor Red Hat Ceph Storage Edition featuring QCT
QuantaGrid D51PH-1ULH and QCT QuantaPlex T21P-4U servers.
The two companies have kicked off a series of global events to showcase
the joint solutions and reference architectures, to highlight the
workload-driven, performance-optimized configurations and use cases, and
to share details about jumpstart program for early access of a testing
environment in QCT’s Cloud Solution Centers. The first event, the Taiwan
Ceph Summit, was held March 17, 2016, in Taiwan with nearly 200 local IT
decision makers. More road shows are planned in other parts of the world
throughout 2016.
Supporting Quotes
Scott Musson, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, Red Hat
“Enterprises are increasingly seeking to emulate the efficiencies
achieved by public cloud providers but with the increased security,
control and flexibility of private and hybrid cloud environments. By
collaborating with QCT, we are aiming to bring our joint expertise to
customers looking for OpenStack and Ceph-based cloud environments, with
confidence that our solutions have been jointly tested and validated.”
Mike Yang, general manager,QCT
“This collaboration with Red Hat delivers performance-optimized
configurations for a broad spectrum of enterprise IT use cases. Red Hat
Ceph Storage and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, combined
with the hyperscale efficiency and performance QCT products offer
customers a powerful and cost-effective path to hybrid cloud success.
It’s another example of our leadership in the global server market as
the shift to private and hybrid cloud computing gains momentum.”
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About Quanta Cloud Technology
QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) is a global datacenter solution provider
extending the power of hyperscale datacenter design in standard and open
SKUs to all datacenter customers. Product lines include servers,
storage, network switches, integrated rack systems and cloud solutions,
all delivering hyperscale efficiency, scalability, reliability,
manageability, serviceability and optimized performance for each
workload. QCT offers a full spectrum of datacenter products and services
from engineering, integration and optimization to global supply chain
support, all under one roof. The parent of QCT is Quanta Computer, Inc.,
a Fortune Global 500 technology engineering and manufacturing company.
More at http://www.QCT.io.
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