Red Hat announces Red Hat Storage integration with Red Hat OpenStack

Using Red Hat Storage and Red Hat OpenStack make it easier to deploy and manage the enterprise and public cloud with its unified storage services for OpenStack supporting Block Storage (Cinder), Image Service (Glance) and Object Storage (Swift) from the same storage pool. Red Hat Storage has the ability to run storage and compute services on the same physical or virtual server to further reduce the cost of OpenStack infrastructure. Red Hat’s open software-defined storage capabilities that run exclusively in user space is a key enabler for future OpenStack storage innovation like File-as-a-Service and Hadoop running on OpenStack. Red Hat expects to be a catalyst in driving community-driven innovation in these and other areas with the goal of delivering the best functionality and user experience for enterprises deploying storage in an open source cloud infrastructure.

Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat, said, “Enterprise customers running mission-critical workloads on the private cloud are interested in a Red Hat-engineered stack to make sure their OpenStack cloud platform deployments are tightly integrated and tested to work effectively right from the start. With Red Hat OpenStack and Red Hat Storage, customers have the peace of mind that they are implementing a proven enterprise solution today, designed for future innovation, that is completely engineered and supported by one company – Red Hat.”