April 10, 2012
Red Hat Storage 2.0 Beta Now Available
Since December when we launched Red Hat Storage Software Appliance, our first integrated storage product, we’ve
experienced significant interest asorganizations look to address the massive growth of unstructured data. Today, we’re
excited to announce the beta availability of Red Hat Storage 2.0, previewing new capabilities that build upon Red Hat’s
industry-leading capabilities for managing the storage of unstructured data.
Red Hat Storage is software only, scale-out storage that provides flexible and affordable unstructured data storage for
the enterprise. Red Hat Storage 2.0 provides new opportunities to unify data storage and infrastructures, increase
performance and improve availability and manageability in order to meet a broader set of an organization’s storage
challenges and needs.
The beta of Red Hat Storage 2.0 previews several key innovations, including:
•Unified File and Object Access: Red Hat Storage 2.0 now provides the industry’s first release of file storage designed to integrate seamlessly with
object storage, offering organizations greater information accessibility, within a single, centralized storage pool;
•Big Data Storage Infrastructure: Red Hat Storage 2.0 includes compatibility for Apache Hadoop providing a new storage option for Hadoop deployments.
This new functionality, enables faster file access and opens up data within Hadoop deployments to other file-based or
object-based applications;
•Built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux- Red Hat Storage 2.0 is built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, which provides a secure, high performing, flexible
enterprise class operating environment. The appliance uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux's extended update support
capabilities and the XFS file system (Red Hat's Scalable File System Add-On) to provide a core operating base platform
which is reliable, scalable, secure and stableover an extended duration of time;
•Performance Enhancements: Faster rebalancing, performance tuning enhancements and Network File SystemVersion 3 (NFSv3) performance optimization;
•Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-readiness, enabling organizations to use Red Hat Storage as a storage layer for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization;
•Improved Manageability: New capabilities that make it even easier to manage a Red Hat Storage cluster, including enhanced data management with
Network Lock Manager (NLM) compliance, new event history information availability, additional storage brick level
information, and improved visibility into self-healing operations and status; and
•Improved Reliability: New capabilities, such as proactive self-healing, that make Red Hat Storage even more reliable and ready for an
organization’s most demanding production workloads.
For more information on Red Hat’s approach to managing unstructured data, visit http://www.redhat.com/solutions/business/storage/.
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