Red Hat Reseller and Alliance Partners Help Companies Find Success with Red Hat Storage Solutions
Growing channel and technology partner programs speak to demand for
modern, software-defined storage solutions
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that more than 20 North American reseller
partners are now accredited to sell the company’s software-defined
storage solutions, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage.
This is in addition to more than 15 technical alliances partners, such
as Cisco, Dell EMC, Intel, QCT, Samsung Semiconductor, Seagate and
Supermicro.
The accreditation of Red Hat’s storage resellers -- underway since Red
Hat expanded the routes to market for the Red Hat Storage portfolio in
November 2015 -- is indicative of growing demand for software-defined
storage as part of modern IT solutions, including more agile
container-based and cloud environments. As organizations deploy these
web-scale IT architectures, open, software-defined storage offers them
more flexibility in how they manage a wide variety of data, even on a
massive scale.
In addition, Red Hat’s active technical alliance program seeks to
improve solution compatibility, devise supportive architectures and
enhance innovative software-defined storage designs, with advanced
hardware from partners around the globe.
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 accredited to sell Red Hat Storage
solutions.
Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage are open, scale-out,
software-defined storage solutions that are designed to run on top of
industry standard hardware. They offer partners flexibility that enables
them to address a wide array of their clients’ needs regardless of their
IT infrastructure. Additionally, the Red Hat Storage portfolio offers a
storage platform that can scale across physical, virtual, and cloud
resources.
Supporting Quotes
Ben Cherian, director, Partnerships,
Alliances, Channel - Storage, Red Hat
“We’re pleased to see
such strong interest in our storage portfolio from the channel and the
dedication of our partners to become accredited through OPEN. We believe
that this commitment shows a desire to be able to provide modern,
software-defined solutions as an alternative to traditional storage
appliance offerings.”
Shea Hart, director of product and partner management, CDW
“Software-defined
storage is an area of growing interest and we are excited to collaborate
with Red Hat to orchestrate solutions to fit the needs of our mutual
customers. For CDW, this a natural extension of our collaboration with
Red Hat delivering innovative open-source solutions to customers for the
past several years.”
Terry L. Smith, senior director, Advanced Solutions Group, Penguin
Computing, Inc.
"Penguin Computing has almost two decades of
leadership in HPC and open technologies. Across our diverse customer
base, we have seen significant growth in data requirements with flat or
linear increases in IT storage budgets. This has been particularly
prevalent in the cloud and in industries like financial services. As an
Advanced Red Hat Partner, Penguin Computing has been able to respond to
customer needs with complete, turnkey, workload-optimized,
enterprise-ready Gluster and Ceph storage solutions."
Phil Williams, principal architect, Rackspace
"The Red Hat
Storage team has been a great partner to work with when defining the
Ceph software-defined storage offering as part of Rackspace Private
Cloud powered by Red Hat. While Red Hat Ceph Storage is a powerful
storage solution for OpenStack private clouds, many customers prefer not
to take on that management, preferring to hand that task to an expert.
That’s where Rackspace comes in, with our managed private cloud
offering, based on Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage."
Matt Francis, senior director, Storage Engineers, Redapt
"At
Redapt, we provide innovative data center solutions combining leading
technologies. We are excited to be a Red Hat Storage partner as it
allows us to take advantage of the product portfolio, in-depth training,
and support that Red Hat provides. This allows us to more confidently
deliver fully integrated solutions to our hyperscale customers that can
be more rapidly integrated into their OpenStack and container
environments as soon as we roll the rack into the datacenter."
Joe Wojtal, vice president service provider solutions, World Wide
Technology
"WWT is excited to work with Red Hat to deliver
leading software-based storage capabilities within the Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) solutions created in WWT’s Carrier Grade NFV Test
Facility jointly established in collaboration with Red Hat, Cisco, and
Intel.”
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