Red Hat Adds Open Source Might to Massachusetts Open Cloud’s Big Data Analysis
Collaborative open cloud initiative built on backbone of Red Hat
OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), an
initiative dedicated to the creation of publicly-available cloud
computing resources for running big data workloads, has standardized on
Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage for its open,
scalable and flexible cloud infrastructure. Combined with Red Hat
Consulting and Red Hat Training services, MOC now has the
highly-available, open architecture it required to drive innovation in
big data along with the skills and knowledge to continue evolving their
offering.
As a non-profit organization formed by a consortium of private and
public institutions (including Boston University, Harvard University,
Northeastern University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
the University of Massachusetts), MOC’s mission has been to develop a
common, cloud-based infrastructure to provide researchers and businesses
with the tools to gain insight from rapidly growing volumes of data.
This meant turning the model for traditional public clouds on its head
by developing an open, collaborative infrastructure rather than one
controlled by a single entity in a closed environment. Additionally,
scale and flexibility have been key technology concerns for MOC, along
with keeping costs down by using industry standard hardware.
MOC leaders quickly established that they wanted to base their
infrastructure on the OpenStack cloud framework given its open source
nature and the technology’s broad community of contributors. To help
ensure that their infrastructure had the necessary levels of support,
MOC selected Red Hat OpenStack Platform, given Red Hat’s technical
expertise and leading position within the OpenStack community. To help
manage the massive volumes of data that MOC’s workloads would generate,
with the flexibility and component services support required by
OpenStack, they also selected Red Hat Ceph Storage as their cloud
storage tier.
Red Hat is an OpenStack leader - both in contributions to the upstream
OpenStack community and its ability to deliver a production-ready
OpenStack platform to enterprise customers. Red Hat OpenStack Platform,
a highly scalable, production-ready Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
solution, has emerged as an open source cloud platform of choice for a
growing number of global organizations. Co-engineered with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and backed by Red Hat's support lifecycle, Red Hat
OpenStack Platform offers an open foundation for cloud deployments.
Similarly, Red Hat Ceph Storage is an open, massively scalable,
software-defined storage solution. It is used within the OpenStack
community, offering a single efficient platform designed to support the
varied and demanding storage needs of cloud architectures.
With assistance from Red Hat Consulting and a dedicated Red Hat
Technical Account Manager, MOC deployed three storage clusters built on
Red Hat Ceph Storage in support of Red Hat OpenStack Platform, spanning
more than 700 terabytes of data across production, R&D, and testing
environments. All of this was done with only three full-time dedicated
staff members on standard hardware, further reducing operational costs.
Thanks to the open cloud infrastructure built on Red Hat technologies
and expertise, MOC has gained:
- Greater scalability and reliability in expanding its storage
network to meet the growing needs of its researchers as they develop
innovative, data-intensive applications and conduct detailed analysis.
They’ve also gained the ability to more rapidly recover from downtime
with a lower risk of losing critical research data, thanks to inherent
features of Red Hat Ceph Storage like dynamic data distribution and no
single point of failure.
- Access to expert training and support from Red Hat Training and
Red Hat Consulting, respectively, to gain a deeper understanding of
these new technologies and to gain a proactive view as to their future
technology needs, especially as demand grows.
- Reduced operational costs at the storage tier, with Red Hat
Ceph Storage running on commodity hardware without diminishing
reliability, stability, or capacity to scale.
The future of MOC is all about growth and scale, as MOC is now
discussing development of a 20 petabyte production storage cluster to
power further big data innovation. They are also taking advantage of
emerging technologies like Linux containers and container orchestration
engines by deploying Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as a
proof-of-concept to explore developing, hosting and scaling applications
and the benefits of containers in simplifying storage resources.
Supporting Quotes
Chris Wright, vice president and chief
technologist, Red Hat
“Building a fully open, scalable and
flexible public cloud is not a small endeavor, especially when the
express purpose of the initiative is to tackle big data applications and
analysis. MOC is an excellent example of how purpose-built cloud
computing can work at scale without relying on proprietary technologies
or specialized hardware, and we are pleased to continue to support the
initiative as together we help to drive innovation in the big data
world.”
Piyanai Saowarattitada, director, Engineering, MOC
“Red Hat
Ceph Storage provides a solid, scalable platform for big data
applications, letting our researchers focus on analytics and innovation
instead of data collection and storage. We’re confident that Ceph can
scale to meet our storage needs, no matter how large. Even with
data-heavy applications like Hadoop and MapReduce, Red Hat Ceph Storage
delivers everything we expected from a performance-focused storage
platform.”
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