Red Hat debuts integrated, software-defined
compute and storage platform designed for remote sites and edge
deployments
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today introduced Red Hat Hyperconverged
Infrastructure, the industry’s first production-ready fully open
source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution. By combining
innovative virtualization and storage technologies with a stable,
proven operating platform, Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is
designed to help enterprises to bring datacenter capabilities into
locations with limited space, such as branch offices and other
remote facilities.
Organizations with distributed operations, such as those in the
banking, energy or retail industries, need to be able to offer the
same infrastructure services in remote and branch offices as they
run in their datacenter. However, remote and branch offices can
have unique challenges: less space and power/cooling, and fewer (or
no) technical staff on-site. Organizations in this situation need
powerful services, integrated on a single server that can scale
out.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is designed to address
these challenges by integrating compute and storage together on a
single server, making it a well-suited solution for low-footprint
remote or branch office installations and edge computing. Red Hat
Hyperconverged Infrastructure is designed to enable organizations
to deploy and manage distributed infrastructures centrally,
enabling remote locations to benefit from high-performing systems
without requiring extensive or highly specialized on-site support
staff.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is the only
production-ready offering with an entirely open source
infrastructure stack and that is developed, sold and supported by a
single vendor. An open source, community-based approach helps to
avoid the vendor lock-in of a proprietary approach and enables
customers to take advantage of the faster innovation emerging from
open source communities. By delivering a hyperconverged
infrastructure solution with the software-defined components coming
from the same vendor, Red Hat is aiming to help customers minimize
troubleshooting and support headaches.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure uses Red Hat’s widely
deployed virtualization platform, as well as software-defined
storage, to more efficiently manage an integrated compute and
storage infrastructure across a range of server hardware or
networks. To accomplish this, Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure
was built with a suite of components, integrated to provide a
unified experience from installation to management. These
include:
- Red Hat Virtualization – The
company’s award-winning Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)-powered
enterprise virtualization platform.
- Red Hat Gluster Storage –
Highly scalable software-defined storage that can be converged on
the same hardware as Red Hat Virtualization hosts, removing the
need for additional compute infrastructures and simplifying
deployment.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
– The world’s leading enterprise Linux platform offers a
stable and reliable foundation.
- Ansible by Red Hat –
Deployment and management built on the leading simple, powerful,
and agentless open source IT automation framework, providing
automated installation and configuration from a central point.
Availability
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is available now.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage,
Red Hat“Our customers have been looking for a solution to meet
infrastructure needs across their entire organization - not just in
the main office - but proprietary solutions previously appeared to
be the only viable option for remote and edge installations. With
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure, customers can now provision
compute and storage resources for remote sites to run local
instances of applications with the same proficiency as in-office
operations. Integrating our widely deployed virtualization
technology and our software-defined storage platform gives
organizations the confidence of easier procurement, deployment and
interoperability, ultimately enabling them to save time and
money.”
Terri McClure, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group“The
integrated systems market continues to grow with hyperconverged
platforms becoming a larger and larger portion therein. Remote and
branch office installations can be challenging for enterprises to
equip from an IT perspective and are well-suited for hyperconverged
offerings. Red Hat’s entry with Red Hat Hyperconverged
Infrastructure is a promising start and well timed as more and more
customers are looking for a hyperconverged solution which can
address their remote site challenges as well as lay the groundwork
for software-defined future directions.”
Jong Myung Lee, CEO, FusionData"As a valued regional Red Hat
solution partner, FusionData is proud to offer Red Hat-based
solutions that help our customers realize key business goals. We
engaged Red Hat on a comprehensive evaluation of Red Hat's
hyperconverged solution, Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure;
based on the stability and scalability of the solution, we have
added Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure as the latest in our
set of Red Hat-based solution offerings, and one aimed at
addressing the growing interest we're seeing for unified software
infrastructure solutions."
Matt Tracewell, vice president, Tracewell Systems"At Tracewell,
we are focused on delivering innovative and efficient technical
solutions into a number of key areas in the U.S. Department of
Defense. Our success is in large part a product of our partnering
with industry leaders focused on customer success. Our teams have a
focus on understanding the challenges our customers face and in
using technology to meet those challenges. Today we are very
excited to be working with Red Hat to address customer needs around
a robust, small-footprint software-based infrastructure solution
aimed at a set of mobile-tactical use cases. To date, we have
experienced strong performance and stability with Red Hat
Hyperconverged Infrastructure and are excited about using this
technology as the basis for our field deployments."
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Red Hat Hyperconverged
Infrastructure
- Learn more about Red Hat
Virtualization
- Learn more about Red Hat Storage
- Read the Red Hat Storage blog
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and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and
virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning
support, training, and consulting services. As a connective hub in
a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source
communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies
that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the
future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.
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