What can you accomplish with unlimited storage scalability built on open standards?

• Add or remove compute, I/O bandwidth, or storage to meet changing capacity and performance needs—without disrupting data access.
• Repurpose existing hardware on the fly to quickly boost storage capacity.
• Respond to business changes quickly without creating a standalone storage environment for each new initiative.
• Efficiently support multipetabyte repositories via a fully distributed architecture and advanced file-management algorithms.
• Run Red Hat Storage on any commodity hardware. No more lock-in by proprietary vendors.

A better storage solution doesn't have to be cost-prohibitive. Red Hat Storage lets you deploy storage on open commodity systems—or your existing infrastructure—instead of proprietary NAS and object-storage systems. Capital costs go down. Performance and availability stay high. And because our software-only storage solution uses a subscription model with predictable costs, budgeting is easy.

With open technologies and an extensible architecture, you can customize Red Hat Storage to your business needs. This empowers you to deploy innovative storage functions at the speed of your business—not at the speed of proprietary hardware-vendor engineering cycles.

Our flexible model also gets you ready for the cloud by letting you deploy storage on-premise or in a public, private, or hybrid cloud. And unique to Red Hat, unified file and object storage lets users instantly access files and objects from the same software-based storage system, eliminating separate storage silos and lowering capital costs.

Simplify operations and deploy storage quickly. Red Hat's integrated solution:

• Centralizes storage management with a user-friendly and intuitive graphical user interface.
• Deploys and scales out in minutes.
• Uses a global namespace to aggregate your servers' storage resources into a unified pool.
• Saves staff time and significantly reduces maintenance overhead because a complex SAN infrastructure isn't required.

With Red Hat Storage, you can confidently move business-critical applications to virtual environments. Software ensures the availability of the storage system and your data. So the failure of any individual server doesn't compromise the system's overall integrity or availability. Local and long-distance replication and self-healing capabilities also ensure high levels of data protection, availability, and resiliency. And they lay a foundation for business continuity and disaster recovery—even in the event of hardware failure.