Red Hat new advanced tiered and data protection features in its industry-leading OpenStack storage platform

July 30, 2014, Beijing-the world's leading Open-source solution provider Red Hat Company (NYSE:RHT) recently unveiled a number of new features in the Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.2, designed to help customers store and manage full spectrum data-from "hot" mission-critical data to "cold" Archive data. New features and optimized calamari management and monitoring platform solutions make the Red Hat Inktank Ceph Enterprise storage solution a highly flexible and cost-effective platform for enterprise management-intensive data applications.

May 2014, Red Hat acquired Inktank--ceph and Inktank Ceph Enterprise Open Source storage solution provider. Inktank Ceph Enterprise provides world-class object and block storage software for enterprises, including many of the early adopters of OpenStack, to deploy public and private clouds. Inktank combines red Hat with existing file storage product Glusterfs, lays out the leading position of Red Hat in the Open Software definition storage solution, leads across objects, across blocks, and across file system storage. Red Hat Inktank Ceph Enterprise will also support the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5, providing a truly integrated OpenStack stack that is rolled out and supported by a single vendor.

The global cold Storage Ecosystem classification, published by IDC in March 2014, shows that as data continues to explode, companies are increasingly aware of the importance of data classification and storage based on access frequency and relevance, or rather, from the "freshness" and "heat" of the data, That is, storage based on access priority and performance. Red Hat Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.2 New tiering capabilities enable organizations to manage data more effectively, both important and archived, and effectively reduce storage costs.

Red Hat Inktank Ceph Enterprise is now implementing more efficient and intensive storage of data through a more affordable storage pool. The new version of the Erasure code storage pool shows enterprise-class durability, which lowers the original capacity requirement by 50%. In addition, the new tiered cache pool can be managed with data from hot to cold or from cold to hot. Combined with the above new features, customers can create the best price combinations on demand.

In view of upholding the user's own choice of rights, Red Hat Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.2 supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5, 7.0 and Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04. Its highlights are mainly reflected in:

The erasure code, by reducing the cost per gigabyte, makes the Red Hat Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.2 Suitable for archival and cold storage technology.

Cache hierarchies, moving hot data that is active to high-performance media and moving relatively static cold data to a low performance medium.

Calamari v1.2, update the CEPH management platform, increase the management function. Administrators are able to manage the core capabilities of a reliable automated distributed Object Library (Rados) storage cluster, including the ability to manage individual storage devices and storage pool policies. Calamari is a local application that includes management tools and performance data to simplify operational management and enable administrators to adapt to changes in the Ceph cluster. May 2014, Red Hat announced that calamari as part of the upstream Ceph community has been open source.

With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, 5.0 comprehensive integration, providing a single supplier of aggregation into the solution.

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Neil Levine, director of product management, Red Hat storage and large data division

"Companies are facing huge storage-cost pressures as the soaring data continues to erode limited it budgets." To ' redefine ' the economics of software-defined storage, Red Hat Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.2 introduces new archiving and tiering capabilities that enable users to define storage pools to store data in a high-density, cost-effective manner, and to enable storage pools to process data more efficiently. In addition, because each storage pool works together, users can create the best cost-effective combination for cold and hot data storage on demand. ”

Steven Stover,dell Engineering Solutions Director

Dell has been working with Red hat for over 15 years and the Red Hat Open source software solution is integrated into Dell Enterprise products to bring value to customers around the world. Red Hat Inktank Ceph Enterprise delivers a highly reliable cloud storage solution with strong scalability and cost-performance, support for various types and levels of enterprise data, and further increase the speed of enterprise customer based OpenStack cloud storage services. We are looking forward to providing users with Red Hat Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.2 via Dell's Red Hat private cloud solution. The