Red Hat unveils Storage Appliances

Red Hat has launched Red Hat Storage Software Appliance, an integrated product that provides scale-out storage for unstructured data. The Appliance is built upon GlusterFS 3.2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1.

This software-only appliance enables enterprises to treat physical
storage as a virtualized, standardized and scale-on-demand pool while
continuing to provide the flexibility, performance and quality required for successful open source enterprise environments across physical and cloud deployments.

In early October, Red Hat acquired Gluster, a leading provider of
scale-out, open source storage solutions that extends the company's
solution portfolio with huge capability for managing the storage of
unstructured data.

In the couple of months since the acquisition, the new Storage Team at Red Hat has been working hard to create its first product, the Red Hat Storage Software Appliance.

''We expect this announcement to be one of many that will enable
organizations to reduce their storage costs while addressing the massive growth in unstructured data," said Ranga Rangachari, GM, Storage at Red Hat.