Fujitsu Collaborates With Red Hat

Fujitsu Ltd announces a collaboration with Red Hat, Inc. to deliver a hyperscale, software-defined storage appliance for service providers and IT organisations that provides online data access in the multi-petabytes range.

By integrating Red Hat’s Inktank Ceph Enterprise storage software with Fujitsu server and storage technology into a multi-node appliance, Fujitsu will make SDS based on Ceph enterprise-ready by delivering maintenance and professional services for the complete appliance.

Inktank Ceph Enterprise delivers object and block storage software to enterprises deploying public or private clouds, including many early adopters of OpenStack. Specifically, the new hyperscale, SDS system will address the storage needs of cost-sensitive service and cloud providers, research and public sector organisations responsible for maintaining large online archives, as well as media streaming and broadcasting companies. Financial institutions that require ad hoc access to historical data also will benefit from this new technology.

Fujitsu is focusing on Inktank Ceph SDS technology to address these challenges and enable the deployment of scalable, performing and fault-tolerant storage environments. Furthermore, the new Fujitsu storage appliance will enable CTOs to decrease TCO for storage.

The new appliance will be unveiled in Autumn 2014, and live demonstrations will be given at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, CA, the Powering the Cloud Event in Frankfurt, Germany, the Fujitsu Forum in Munich, Germany, and the OpenStack Summit in Paris, France.