Red Hat Positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage Two Years in a Row
Purpose built storage for the modern enterprise enabling adoption of
the open hybrid cloud
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Red Hat in
the “Visionaries” quadrant of the 2017
Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage for
its storage solutions – Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster
Storage. Red Hat is the furthest to the right for completeness of vision
and the highest in ability to execute of all vendors in the Visionary
Quadrant. This is the second year in a row that Red Hat Storage has been
placed in the Visionaries quadrant.
Gartner’s Magic Quadrants are based on a rigorous analysis of a vendor’s
completeness of vision and ability to execute.
Developed to handle modern storage workloads and meet customer requests,
Red Hat has made a number of investments in its storage products over
the past year. New or updated storage capabilities include:
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Expanding container-native storage for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform across the hybrid cloud. Earlier this month, Red Hat unveiled Red
Hat Container-Native Storage 3.6, which enables end-to-end storage
for all core Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform applications and
infrastructure.
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Release of Red
Hat Ceph Storage 2.3 which increases the versatility of Ceph for
object storage by broadening protocol support so that users can
connect more effectively to and between traditional and modern
workloads.
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Unveiling Red
Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure, the industry’s only
production-ready offering with an entirely open source infrastructure
stack that is developed, sold and supported by a single vendor.
Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage are both highly agile
software-defined storage solutions that are built to handle different
types of demanding workloads. Red Hat Ceph Storage is a robust, unified
storage platform designed for object storage and cloud infrastructures
at petabyte-scale. Red Hat Gluster Storage is a powerful distributed
file system that offers flexible storage services across the data
center's footprints – bare metal, virtual machines, private clouds,
public clouds, and containerized environments. Both offerings can be
deployed on industry-standard hardware. They are supported by an active
community of open source developers and partners and used by companies
around the world.
Supporting Quote
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat
“Red
Hat Storage is on the cutting edge of enterprise storage, evolving to
meet new customer and infrastructure requirements of hybrid cloud and
container infrastructures. We firmly believe that the future of storage
is open, software-defined, and agile, something that can fully support
modern workloads. We listen closely to our customers and respond. That's
why we are proud to be named a Visionary by Gartner two years in a row.
Red Hat is the furthest right for completeness of vision and the highest
ranked in ability to execute of all vendors in the Visionary Quadrant.”
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