Red Hat launches open hybrid cloud solution

BOSTON, USA:  Open source company Red Hat Inc. announced the launch of Storage Server 2.0, a scale-out, open source storage software solution for the management of unstructured data.

Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 comes with over 50 dual-socket x86-based servers and support s file access protocols including Common Internet File System (CIFS), Network File System (NFS), HTTP and OpenStack Swift.

Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat, said: "After several months of successful beta testing at leading companies around the world, coupled with the progress we've made since we entered the scale-out storage market last fall when Red Hat acquired Gluster, we are excited to remove the beta label and offer Red Hat Storage Server to the market. In the coming years, open source storage solutions and volume x86 servers are expected to transform the storage market in the same way that Linux and volume x86 servers transformed the server market, and with Red Hat Storage we're positioning ourselves to be at the very forefront of this industry transformation."

It is a file storage solution which can integrate with object storage, enabling users to combine larger amounts of storage into a single centralized pool.

Red Hat Storage Server, built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, can be deployed on-premise, in private clouds, in public cloud infrastructures or hybrid cloud environments and is optimized for storage-intensive enterprise workloads including high-performance computing, near-line archival and rich media content clouds, says a release.

Available only in Technology Preview, Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 is also offering support for big data infrastructure, with compatibility for Apache Hadoop.

With the ability to install Red Hat Storage in Hadoop environments, either in combination and along with Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), or as a replacement for HDFS, this Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 technology preview enables faster file access and opens up data within Hadoop deployments to other file-based or object-based applications.

Also available only in Technology Preview is a management console for Red Hat Storage. Based on the oVirt Project -- the open source infrastructure and virtualization management platform -- the Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 management console technology preview gives users visibility and control into their storage clusters via a single pane of glass.

Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 is available now.