Red Hat has enhanced its Storage portfolio by launching Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 and Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 open software-defined storage solutions.
The enhanced Red Hat Storage capabilities provide robust data protection, performance and management at petabyte scale to IT administrators.
The company said Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage are open source, scale-out software-defined storage solutions that run on commodity hardware.
According to the company each Red Hat Storage product has durable, programmable architectures and is well-suited for different enterprise workloads.
Red Hat Ceph offers mature interfaces for enterprise block and objects storage and is suitable for powering infrastructure platforms.
Additionally, Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 features time-scheduled scrubbing and provide enhanced performance.
Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 also includes management support for multiple users and clusters via the Ceph UI and API, and API-based policy management.
Meanwhile, Red Hat Gluster Storage offers network file system (NFS), Server Message Block (SMB), and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) file interfaces and is well-suited for enterprise virtualization, analytics, sync and share, and rich media workloads.
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 is designed to increase performance and security.
“With the new features in Red Hat Gluster Storage and Red Hat Ceph Storage, Red Hat delivers uncompromised performance at scale to our enterprise customers worldwide,” said Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage and Big Data, Red Hat.
Shilpa Khatri
