Sunday, October 5, 2014

19 PB of Red Hat Cluster – Computer Sweden

Ever since Red Hat 2011 bought open source company Gluster, the company has invested heavily storage, such as by products Storage Software Appliance. Now, version three of Storage Server which is based on the filesystem glusterfs for handling unstructured data.

– With new Storage Server, we can handle even larger storage clusters than before, especially such as ostruktured Hadoop data. In addition, the product has better support for SSDs which now can use disks from any provider, says Anna Lidén, storage specialist at Red Hat Sweden.

The new version up to 128 servers per cluster in a system where each server has 60 disks, which is twice as much compared to previous versions. Red Hat says it with Storage Server 3 can keep track of as much as 19 petabytes of data per server cluster.

Anna Lidén says that the new platform is perfectly suited for software-defined storage and has broad support for cloud-based systems that many companies are now developing for internal use.

– Many companies want to have internal systems that can be avoided that the staff put up the data on the public system as Whatsapp and similar.

Storage Server 3 has support both for running the Apache Hadoop data management and Apache Ambari for administration and monitoring of big data. In addition, the system must have the full support from partners such as Cisco, HP, Supermicro, Splunk, Horton Works and Owncloud.

Among the Swedish customers as Red Hat highlights include Good Tech and Ikano Bank using Storage Server for a number of internal data management processes.

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