Latest Red Hat Ceph Storage Release Expands Versatility as Object Store
Newest version of storage platform broadens protocol support to
extend flexibility of object storage deployments for traditional and
modern workloads
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.3. This release, based
on Ceph 10.2 (Jewel), introduces a new Network File System (NFS)
interface, offers new compatibility with the Hadoop S3A filesystem
client, and adds support for deployment in containerized environments.
These improvements expand the product’s versatility as an object storage
platform, offering the ability to support big data analytics and serve
as a common platform for file-based workloads. This release marks the
latest milestone in Red Hat’s mission to provide highly elastic,
flexible storage that can be optimized to suit a variety of workloads
across any size of enterprise deployment.
Red Hat Ceph Storage is an open, software-defined, unified storage
platform. It decouples software from hardware to run cost-effectively on
industry-standard servers and disks, scales flexibly and massively to
support multiple petabyte deployments, and provides web-scale object
storage for modern use cases.
This latest version of Red Hat Ceph Storage adds a lightweight NFS
interface to the Ceph Object Gateway. As a result, users and their
applications will be able to access the same data set from both S3
object and NFS file interfaces, gradually transitioning between them
based on business needs. The NFS interface uses the Red Hat Ceph Storage
multi-site capabilities to enable global clusters and data access with
the NFS protocol. As a result, file storage customers can take advantage
of the scale, flexibility, and cost efficiencies of object storage while
modernizing their storage foundation over time.
Compatibility with the Hadoop S3A filesystem client enables the use of
big data analytics applications like Apache Hadoop MapReduce, Hive, and
Spark with the Red Hat Ceph Storage object store. This allows customers
to take advantage of native object storage features like lifecycle and
metadata management, reduce costs with erasure coding, and scale compute
and storage independently.
Additionally, customers will have access to an alternative vehicle for
deploying Red Hat Ceph Storage in containerized environments. A single
container image of the product will be available on the Red Hat
Container Registry, delivering the same capabilities as in the
traditional package format. Using a containerized format with Ansible by
Red Hat, Ceph Storage users can perform installations, upgrades, and
updates atomically, resulting in reduced complexity, easier management,
and faster deployment of software-defined storage.
Availability
Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.3 and its containerized image are expected to be
generally available later this month via the Red Hat Customer Portal and
on the Red Hat Container Registry, respectively.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat
“In today’s environment of exploding data growth, customers need support
for existing and modern workloads as they update their infrastructure
with software-defined technologies to be more nimble and cost-efficient.
Red Hat aims to assist customers with IT modernization, and object
storage advancements in Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.3 coupled with Red Hat
Consulting and Global Support can be instrumental to their transition
and ultimate success.”
Thomas Connor, Ph.D., senior lecturer, Cardiff University and
co-investigator, CLIMB
"We are really pleased to see the release of Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.3.
We have already benefited from many of the capabilities of Red Hat Ceph
to support our community of researchers working on genomics research of
global importance. The latest release really expands the versatility of
the product’s object store – something that will further empower our
users to extract maximum value from their data, through access to
traditional workloads."
Rodney Poling, principal cloud architect, Advanced Technology Group,
Genesys
“For more than three years we have been thrilled with the performance
and support we have received with Red Hat Ceph Storage, and we are eager
to put version 2.3 into action. The new NFS gateway can deliver scale
out, software-defined, object storage to our legacy platform that still
requires traditional file storage. The greater flexibility and
scalability enables us to continue working to cut deployment time and
grow with our customers."
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