… Supported by Several Companies

Red Hat, Inc. announced partner support for Red Hat Storage, the company’s scale-out, open source storage software for the management of unstructured data.

Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 debuts with partners, including Cisco, Groupware, Intel, Mainline and Synnex.

With virtualization, cloud computing, mobile devices and social media helping to drive adoption, the market opportunity for scale-out storage is growing rapidly. Industry analysts estimate revenue for the scale-out storage market will reach more than $18 billion by 2015, a more than 20% CAGR.

Enterprise Strategy Group further estimates that by 2015, 80% of all new external networked storage shipment revenue will come from systems based on scale-out architectures, and that externally networked scale-out storage shipments in commercial and government sectors will increase from 4,189PB in 2010 to 62,834PB in 2015, reflecting a 72% CAGR that exceeds the overall external networked storage growth rate of 54%.

Red Hat Storage is designed to address organizations’ growing needs around the management of unstructured data, and through ecosystem collaboration with Red Hat, solution providers can leverage the open and flexible nature of Red Hat Storage and can develop solutions that give the power of choice back to customers.