Scale-out Storage with Red Hat

You've taken the first step and moved your storage infrastructure from proprietary to open source. Now we can help you reduce costs even more.

When you're looking for something more cost-effective, powerful, and scalable than proprietary storage management solutions, Red Hat Scale-out Storage architecture offers a ready alternative.

Volume management. Multipath IO. Global file systems. We can reduce the costs and complexity of your mission-critical IT environment.

Why Scale Out Storage for Web Services?

Incremental Management of Storage Needs. Add and delete low-cost servers to manage storage IO requirements as needed, instead of buying massive storage boxes to serve peak demands.
Higher Availability & Fault Resistance. We allow for shared storage: if one node fails, the other nodes have the same information.
On-Demand Processing Power. Have high-demand e-commerce services? Coordinate data requests with a centrally shared data storage network. Our state-of-the-art "clustered distributed lock manager" watches over the cluster of Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances, arbitrating any read / write requests to the same file.
Low Cost. Industry-standard commodity servers for storage scale-out cost much less than storage appliances from NetApp or EMC Celerra.

Scale-out Storage is ideal for customers who:

Are migrating to lower cost, higher performing Linux hardware
Plan to implement Linux-based clusters
Require high-performance storage and capacity on demand
Have application servers too fast for their current storage system
Have mission-critical data storage requirements

Why Red Hat Global File System and ClusterSuite?

GFS is fully supported and integrated with the same Red Hat Enterprise Linux that is used for Apache servers.
GFS continues to offer NFS services with a more efficient scale-out architecture than a proprietary monolithic NFS appliance model.
GFS has a tightly integrated high-availability failover and multipathing capability for higher web services availability.
GFS is much less expensive than proprietary monolithic NFS appliance solutions.