Red Hat enters the Big Data market
At the beginning of the month, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 was released, focusing on data storage . Now I understand why - Red Hat is entering a new market for itself, the big data market (“big data”). After Red Hat bought Gluster, I published some of my thoughts about what this purchase was made for. But I could not even imagine that the new product from Red Hat will appear only two months later, after the announcement of the deal. . 
One of the reasons why Red Hat will become the first Open Source company with a billion-dollar turnover is that it not only deals with the Linux distribution, but also with many other things related to Linux, such as cloud computing , virtual desktops (VDI) , Java Enterprise and now, with the release of the Red Hat Storage Software Appliance, big data management .
You ask what is big data? Businesses have recently realized that we are drowning in big data. Every day we generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, and 90% of all information in the world was created in the last two years. This data comes from everywhere: weather and climate change records, social media posts, digital photos and videos, online shopping transactions and GPS signals from cell phones. All this is big data.
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How to manage so much data? To cope with “big data”, Red Hat bought Gluster, an open storage solution, and used it to create a new software product. The Storage Software Appliance “extends Red Hat's product line with the industry-leading solution for managing and storing unstructured data.”
Perhaps you thought Red Hat bought Gluster for its own OpenStack cloud? I think that this is partly the case. But now we can see that GlusterFS was interested in Red Hat and as an independent product - an open, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes.
The Red Hat Storage Software Appliance is based on the GlusterFS 3.2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.1. This software will enable enterprises to move to a virtualized, standardized, and scalable storage pool, which will provide the flexibility, performance, and quality of service necessary for the successful operation of a modern corporate environment.
A statement from Ranga Rangachari, the chief manager of Red Hat storage systems, said: “Now is an important time for Red Hat, we are introducing our first release of an innovative storage system. We expect that the announced product will be one of the ways to significantly reduce the cost of data storage for enterprises faced with a huge increase in the amount of unstructured data. We offer such companies an open source storage system, and our developers continue to develop new solutions and expand product innovations. ”
One of the reasons why Red Hat will become the first Open Source company with a billion-dollar turnover is that it not only deals with the Linux distribution, but also with many other things related to Linux, such as cloud computing , virtual desktops (VDI) , Java Enterprise and now, with the release of the Red Hat Storage Software Appliance, big data management .
You ask what is big data? Businesses have recently realized that we are drowning in big data. Every day we generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, and 90% of all information in the world was created in the last two years. This data comes from everywhere: weather and climate change records, social media posts, digital photos and videos, online shopping transactions and GPS signals from cell phones. All this is big data.
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How to manage so much data? To cope with “big data”, Red Hat bought Gluster, an open storage solution, and used it to create a new software product. The Storage Software Appliance “extends Red Hat's product line with the industry-leading solution for managing and storing unstructured data.”
Perhaps you thought Red Hat bought Gluster for its own OpenStack cloud? I think that this is partly the case. But now we can see that GlusterFS was interested in Red Hat and as an independent product - an open, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes.
The Red Hat Storage Software Appliance is based on the GlusterFS 3.2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.1. This software will enable enterprises to move to a virtualized, standardized, and scalable storage pool, which will provide the flexibility, performance, and quality of service necessary for the successful operation of a modern corporate environment.
A statement from Ranga Rangachari, the chief manager of Red Hat storage systems, said: “Now is an important time for Red Hat, we are introducing our first release of an innovative storage system. We expect that the announced product will be one of the ways to significantly reduce the cost of data storage for enterprises faced with a huge increase in the amount of unstructured data. We offer such companies an open source storage system, and our developers continue to develop new solutions and expand product innovations. ”
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/134659/
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