Red Hat Unveils Industry’s First Production-Ready Open Source Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Red Hat debuts integrated, software-defined compute and storage
platform designed for remote sites and edge deployments
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today introduced Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure, the
industry’s first production-ready fully open source hyperconverged
infrastructure (HCI) solution. By combining innovative virtualization
and storage technologies with a stable, proven operating platform, Red
Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is designed to help enterprises to
bring datacenter capabilities into locations with limited space, such as
branch offices and other remote facilities.
Organizations with distributed operations, such as those in the banking,
energy or retail industries, need to be able to offer the same
infrastructure services in remote and branch offices as they run in
their datacenter. However, remote and branch offices can have unique
challenges: less space and power/cooling, and fewer (or no) technical
staff on-site. Organizations in this situation need powerful services,
integrated on a single server that can scale out.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is designed to address these
challenges by integrating compute and storage together on a single
server, making it a well-suited solution for low-footprint remote or
branch office installations and edge computing. Red Hat Hyperconverged
Infrastructure is designed to enable organizations to deploy and manage
distributed infrastructures centrally, enabling remote locations to
benefit from high-performing systems without requiring extensive or
highly specialized on-site support staff.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is the only production-ready
offering with an entirely open source infrastructure stack and that is
developed, sold and supported by a single vendor. An open source,
community-based approach helps to avoid the vendor lock-in of a
proprietary approach and enables customers to take advantage of the
faster innovation emerging from open source communities. By delivering a
hyperconverged infrastructure solution with the software-defined
components coming from the same vendor, Red Hat is aiming to help
customers minimize troubleshooting and support headaches.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure uses Red Hat’s widely deployed
virtualization platform, as well as software-defined storage, to more
efficiently manage an integrated compute and storage infrastructure
across a range of server hardware or networks. To accomplish this, Red
Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure was built with a suite of components,
integrated to provide a unified experience from installation to
management. These include:
- Red Hat Virtualization – The company’s award-winning
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)-powered enterprise virtualization
platform.
- Red Hat Gluster Storage– Highly scalable
software-defined storage that can be converged on the same hardware as
Red Hat Virtualization hosts, removing the need for additional compute
infrastructures and simplifying deployment.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux– The world’s leading
enterprise Linux platform offers a stable and reliable foundation.
- Ansible by Red Hat– Deployment and management built on
the leading simple, powerful, and agentless open source IT automation
framework, providing automated installation and configuration from a
central point.
Availability
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is available now.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat
“Our
customers have been looking for a solution to meet infrastructure needs
across their entire organization - not just in the main office - but
proprietary solutions previously appeared to be the only viable option
for remote and edge installations. With Red Hat Hyperconverged
Infrastructure, customers can now provision compute and storage
resources for remote sites to run local instances of applications with
the same proficiency as in-office operations. Integrating our widely
deployed virtualization technology and our software-defined storage
platform gives organizations the confidence of easier procurement,
deployment and interoperability, ultimately enabling them to save time
and money.”
Terri McClure, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
“The
integrated systems market continues to grow with hyperconverged
platforms becoming a larger and larger portion therein. Remote and
branch office installations can be challenging for enterprises to equip
from an IT perspective and are well-suited for hyperconverged offerings.
Red Hat’s entry with Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is a
promising start and well timed as more and more customers are looking
for a hyperconverged solution which can address their remote site
challenges as well as lay the groundwork for software-defined future
directions.”
Jong Myung Lee, CEO, FusionData
"As a valued regional Red
Hat solution partner, FusionData is proud to offer Red Hat-based
solutions that help our customers realize key business goals. We engaged
Red Hat on a comprehensive evaluation of Red Hat's hyperconverged
solution, Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure; based on the stability
and scalability of the solution, we have added Red Hat Hyperconverged
Infrastructure as the latest in our set of Red Hat-based solution
offerings, and one aimed at addressing the growing interest we're seeing
for unified software infrastructure solutions."
Matt Tracewell, vice president, Tracewell Systems
"At
Tracewell, we are focused on delivering innovative and efficient
technical solutions into a number of key areas in the U.S. Department of
Defense. Our success is in large part a product of our partnering with
industry leaders focused on customer success. Our teams have a focus on
understanding the challenges our customers face and in using technology
to meet those challenges. Today we are very excited to be working with
Red Hat to address customer needs around a robust, small-footprint
software-based infrastructure solution aimed at a set of mobile-tactical
use cases. To date, we have experienced strong performance and stability
with Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure and are excited about using
this technology as the basis for our field deployments."
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