Red Hat® Gluster Storage is an open, software-defined scale-out storage platform to easily manage unstructured data for physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Red Hat Gluster Storage combines both file and object storage with a scale-out architecture, designed to cost-effectively store and manage petabyte-scale data growth.

Red Hat Gluster Storage delivers a continuous storage fabric across physical, virtual, and cloud resources so customers can transform their big, semistructured, and unstructured data from a burden to an asset.

Red Hat Gluster Storage is used for storing various kinds of unstructured data, including:

• Rich media content like videos, images, and audio files.
• Backup images and nearline archives.
• Big data—log files, radio frequency identification (RFID) data, and other machine-generated data.
• Virtual machine images.

Built on the industry-leading Red Hat Enterprise Linux® operating system, Red Hat Gluster Storage lets customers deploy cost-effective and highly available storage without compromising scale or performance. Red Hat Gluster Storage eliminates storage silos by allowing global access to data through multiple file and object protocols. It is also designed to work seamlessly with industry- standard x86 commodity servers.

Red Hat Gluster Storage can easily be deployed on premise, in public cloud infrastructures, and in hybrid cloud environments. It is optimized for storage-intensive enterprise workloads such as archiving and backup, rich media content delivery, enterprise drop-box, cloud and business applica-tions, virtual and cloud infrastructure storage, as well as emerging workloads such as co-resident applications and big data Hadoop workloads.

Today, enterprises are often faced with disparate storage silos, geographically dispersed among many datacenters around the globe. Red Hat Gluster Storage helps enterprises eliminate their silos and unify their data by provisioning and managing storage regardless of whether it is on premise, virtualized, or in a public cloud infrastructure.

RED HAT GLUSTER STORAGE:

 IDEAL FOR PRIVATE, PUBLIC, AND HYBRID CLOUDSAN OPEN, SOFTWARE-DEFINED, SCALE-OUT STORAGE PLATFORM THAT DEPLOYS ON INDUSTRY-STANDARD X86 HARDWARE IN MINUTES

1. SCALABILITY AND FLEXIBILITY WITHOUT DISRUPTION

Red Hat Gluster Storage is designed for unlimited scalability; storage can be added or removed while data continues to be available. Bit-rot detection helps ensure the integrity of that data. Additionally, the elastic, scale-out architecture of Red Hat Gluster Storage lets users seamlessly grow storage to meet the dynamic needs of virtual environments.

2. EASY TO DEPLOY

An International Standards Organization (ISO) image installs on a server or supported hypervi-sors (e.g., Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and VMware vSphere/ESXi) for quick deployment.

3. HIGH PERFORMANCE AT A LOWER COST

Red Hat Gluster Storage uses an elastic hashing algorithm to locate data in the storage pool (by calculating a hash on the file name), removing a common source of input/output (I/O) bottlenecks and vulnerability to failure. This, coupled with its large-capacity scalability, gives users better performance at a lower cost. Also lowering costs is erasure coding, which reduces capacity requirements for archives and cold storage at a lower cost per gigabyte.

Enterprises can eliminate their dependence on costly, monolithic storage arrays that are difficult to scale. With Red Hat Gluster Storage, enterprises can easily deploy commodity hardware in minutes for scalable, high-performance storage in their datacenters or in hybrid cloud environments.

RED HAT GLUSTER STORAGE FOR PUBLIC CLOUD

A HIGHLY AVAILABLE, HIGH-PERFORMANCE STORAGE SOLUTION FOR AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS) AND GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM (GCP)

1. SINGLE GLOBAL NAMESPACEAWS 

users can aggregate both Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances within AWS environments, creating a highly available, virtualized storage pool.

2. SUPERIOR AMAZON EC2 EXPERIENCE

Red Hat Gluster Storage for public cloud eliminates capacity limitations of a single device  and levels out performance variations across the pool, so Amazon EC2 customers experience superior availability and performance.

3. HIGH AVAILABILITY

Red Hat Gluster Storage for public cloud provides synchronous replication and asynchronous geo-replication, so data is synchronously mirrored across availability zones and asynchronously across regions within AWS.

4. NO APPLICATION RE-WRITES

Migrate existing POSIX applications to the cloud without making modifications

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