Red Hat and QCT Collaborate on Systems for OpenStack and Ceph
RALEIGH, N.C. & SAN JOSE, Calif., April 5 -- Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology), a global datacenter solution provider, today announced plans to combine key Red Hat offerings - including Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux - with QCT's family of servers, storages and network switches. Red Hat and QCT are working together to increase private and hybrid cloud deployments, and to enable customer success on the combined offerings through joint testing, validations, reference architectures, and more.
Red Hat has emerged as a private and hybrid cloud leader, with open source solutions spanning the datacenter’s four footprints - from bare metal and virtualized environments to private and public cloud. Red Hat is also a staunch supporter and leading provider of OpenStack - both in contributions to the upstream OpenStack community as well as delivery of a production-ready OpenStack platform to enterprise customers. It is also the principal sponsor of Ceph, the unified, scalable distributed storage platform that is preferred among users and developers of OpenStack-based clouds.
QCT is a global hyperscale datacenter solution provider. The company’s products are designed to deliver the benefits of hyperscale performance, in standard SKUs and for customers of all sizes. QCT is a longtime supporter of the OpenStack project, as well as Open Compute and others.
Red Hat and QCT plan to collaborate on a number of initiatives, including:
- QCT's Cloud Solution Centers - Unveiled in late 2015 with the support of Red Hat and others, the Cloud Solution Centers in San Jose, Calif., and Taiwan help customers experience, test and implement QCT's software-defined infrastructure solutions for more efficient and powerful private and hybrid cloud development and receive guidance from industry experts like Red Hat on the deployment of open cloud technologies.
- Joint Reference Architectures - Following extensive testing and validation, Red Hat and QCT architects have developed several reference architectures to enable customer deployment success with Red Hat Ceph Storage - a massively scalable and open software-defined storage platform - and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform - a highly scalable, production-ready Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution, on QCT servers, storages and switches. Reference architecture is available for Red Hat Ceph Storage on the configuration of QCT QxStor Red Hat Ceph Storage Edition featuring QCT QuantaGrid D51PH-1ULH and QCT QuantaPlex T21P-4U servers.
The two companies have kicked off a series of global events to showcase the joint solutions and reference architectures, to highlight the workload-driven, performance-optimized configurations and use cases, and to share details about jumpstart program for early access of a testing environment in QCT’s Cloud Solution Centers. The first event, the Taiwan Ceph Summit, was held March 17, 2016, in Taiwan with nearly 200 local IT decision makers. More road shows are planned in other parts of the world throughout 2016.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As a connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.
About Quanta Cloud Technology
QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) is a global datacenter solution provider extending the power of hyperscale datacenter design in standard and open SKUs to all datacenter customers. Product lines include servers, storage, network switches, integrated rack systems and cloud solutions, all delivering hyperscale efficiency, scalability, reliability, manageability, serviceability and optimized performance for each workload. QCT offers a full spectrum of datacenter products and services from engineering, integration and optimization to global supply chain support, all under one roof. The parent of QCT is Quanta Computer, Inc., a Fortune Global 500 technology engineering and manufacturing company. More at http://www.QCT.io.
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Source: Red Hat
