Red Hat: Storage Integration With OpenStack

Red Hat, Inc. announced the
integration of Red
Hat Storage and Red
Hat OpenStack to provide customers with a storage and compute
solution with the benefit of being engineered and supported in
concert by one company.

This give customers a storage and compute solution, a platform for
innovation, and a support experience during the journey to open
hybrid cloud.

Using these sevices make it easier to deploy and manage the
enterprise and public cloud with its unified storage services for
OpenStack supporting block storage (Cinder), image service (Glance)
and object storage (Swift) from the same storage pool. Red Hat
Storage has the ability to run storage and compute services on the
same physical or virtual server to reduce the cost of OpenStack
infrastructure.

The open software-defined storage capabilities that run exclusively
in user space is a enabler for future OpenStack storage innovation
like File-as-a-Service and Hadoop running on OpenStack. The company
expects to be a catalyst in driving community-driven innovation in
these and other areas with the goal of delivering the best
functionality and user experience for enterprises deploying storage
in an open source cloud infrastructure.

Ranga Rangachari, VP and GM, storage, Red Hat, said: "Enterprise customers
running mission-critical workloads on the private cloud are
interested in a Red Hat-engineered stack to make sure their OpenStack
cloud platform deployments are tightly integrated and tested to work
effectively right from the start. With Red Hat OpenStack and Red Hat
Storage, customers have the piece of mind that they are implementing
a proven enterprise solution today, designed for future innovation,
that is completely engineered and supported by one company, Red
Hat."