Red Hat Introduces Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services

Red Hat Introduces Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of the Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is built on the former Gluster technology that the company acquired in October 2011. As the leading enterprise-ready   scale-out NAS offering for the public cloud available on the market today, Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance enables organizations to extend their datacenter storage to the cloud.

With the appliance, users have the ability to aggregate both Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, creating a highly available virtualized storage pool that offers enhanced scalability and performance in the cloud. This news comes on the heels of Red Hat's announcement of its Storage Software Appliance in December 2011. These two products provide  greater flexibility to organizations looking to include file storage in their  on-premise and cloud strategies.

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