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Red Hat Unveils Unified Open Software-Defined Storage Portfolio

Includes Ceph Storage and Gluster Storage

Red Hat, Inc. announced worldwide availability of a unified open software-defined storage portfolio that brings together Ceph Storage, formerly known as Inktank Ceph Enterprise, and Gluster Storage, formerly known as Storage Server.

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This unified storage portfolio helps enterprises manage their current and emerging storage workloads using open source software and standard hardware.

This announcement is an important milestone in the continued momentum of Red Hat’s charter to bring open software-defined storage to enterprises that began with the acquisition of Gluster, Inc., in October 2011, and continued with the acquisition of Inktank, Inc., provider of Ceph, in May 2014. The product developed by Inktank has gone through company’s quality engineering processes and is a fully-supported Red Hat solution, re-branded as Red Hat Ceph Storage.

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Both Gluster Storage and Ceph Storage are open source, scale-out software-defined storage solutions that run on commodity hardware and have durable, programmable architectures. However, each is well suited for different sets of enterprise workloads, bringing unique and compelling benefits to the enterprise customer. Validated to work with  partner hardware and software solutions, the Red Hat Storage portfolio gives enterprise customers the confidence that their storage workloads are optimized for open, software-designed storage.

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Gluster Storage is suited for enterprise virtualization, analytics and enterprise sync and share workloads. Ceph Storage is suited for cloud infrastructure workloads, such as OpenStack. Both Ceph Storage and Gluster Storage address workloads for archival and rich media, providing customers with choice and ensuring the best fit for their specific storage requirements.

Ranga Rangachari, VP and GM, storage and big data, Red Hat, said: “The Red Hat Storage product portfolio and open software-defined storage vision can truly help enterprise customers manage storage for current and emerging workloads in fast-growing new cloud infrastructures, such as OpenStack.

Nithya Ruff, director, open source strategy office, SanDisk Corporation, said: “SanDisk is committed to open source software and is helping to further its rapid movement towards flash-intelligent storage platforms. This is evidenced by our recent introduction of InfiniFlash, a new storage system that utilizes open source Ceph software to tightly integrate flash technology with the storage capabilities in OpenStack infrastructures. The unified Red Hat Storage portfolio combined with SanDisk’s solutions, provide a workload-centric approach to solving customers’ current and future storage applications and IT challenges.

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