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In Tuesday, Red Hat released the virtual Storage appliance on AWS, while providing good performance while leveraging Amazon's cloud computing advantages.

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The virtual Storage appliance for AWS integrates Amazon's EC2 and EBS. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a system that allows users to hire cloud computers to run their applications. EC2 by providing Web services to enable users to run their own Amazon machine image files flexibly, users will be able to run any software or applications they want on the virtual machine. Prior to Amazon EBS, the storage in the Amazon EC2 instance was bound to the instance itself, making the data in that instance lost when the instance was terminated. With Amazon EBS, users can choose to allocate storage capacity, which is reliable, durable and independent of the Amazon EC2 instance. In addition, to provide even more durable backups and an easy way to create new capacity, Amazon EBS provides a consistent snapshot capability to create capacity at specific times and then stores it in Amazon S3. As a result, virtual storage devices on AWS can allow businesses to transfer all applications that use NAS storage to the cloud without modification.

The device is similar to Amazon's machine appearance, which supports NFS, CIFS, and HTTP, parallel NFS.

The AWS Virtual Storage Appliance released today is targeted at unstructured file data, including distribution of content. The device is based on gluster virtual memory, a year ago Red Hat in order to develop cloud computing power, has acquired this product.

Red Hat changes are meticulous, including modifying the CentOS on the Enterprise Linux operating system.

In any storage system, availability is a priority to consider once migrating to the cloud or to the enterprise's own data center. Red Hat AWS Virtual Storage Appliance can maintain synchronous replication across zones. In addition, you can handle asynchronous replication for multiple regions.

To ensure the high availability of the system, users can deploy multiple devices in different areas of availability, replicating data in the same area. Given the need for disaster-recovery backup, data can be replicated to different regions.

The equipment provides premium, currently on the market value of 7,500 U.S. dollars, in addition, enterprises also need to pay the Amazon cloud services.

The release of AWS is the first step in March, and more and more vendors are expected to release cloud storage devices in the near future.

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