Red Hat Named a Visionary in Gartner’s 2016 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage
October 25 2016 - 1:38PM
Business Wire
Evaluation based on completeness of vision and
ability to execute
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned
Red Hat– in the “Visionaries” quadrant of Gartner’s October 2016
Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage for
its storage solutions – Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster
Storage
Gartner’s Magic Quadrants are based on rigorous analysis of a
vendor’s completeness of vision and ability to execute. This is the
first year Gartner has published a Magic Quadrant for Distributed
File Systems and Object Storage.
Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage are both highly
agile solutions that are built to handle different types of
demanding workloads. Red Hat Ceph Storage is a robust, unified
storage platform designed for object storage and
cloud infrastructures at petabyte-scale. Red Hat Gluster
Storage is a powerful distributed file system that offers flexible
storage services across the datacenter's footprints – bare metal,
virtual machines, private clouds, public clouds, and containerized
environments. Both offerings can be deployed on industry-standard
hardware. They are supported by an active community of open source
developers and partners and used by companies around the world.
Supporting Quote
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage,
Red Hat
“At Red Hat, we believe the future of storage is open,
software-defined, and agile. That belief is the foundation of
our vision: to provide enterprises with storage solutions
that go well beyond traditional storage and allow them to
effectively embrace the hybrid cloud and container infrastructures
of tomorrow.”
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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
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