Red Hat Assists Monash University with Deployment of Software-Defined Storage to Support Advanced Research Capabilities
January 30 2017 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Leading science and technology research
institution selects Red Hat Ceph Storage to support five-petabyte
storage cluster
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that Monash University, one of
Australia’s most prestigious research universities, has implemented
a massive multi-petabyte deployment on Red Hat Ceph Storage.
Founded in 1958, Monash University was established to create a
science and technology-focused research institution. Almost 60
years later, Monash is Australia's largest university, and now
includes a curriculum that spans multiple disciplines and across
five international campuses. The University's eResearch Centre
fosters international collaboration and advanced research of both
fundamental and applied sciences, with an emphasis on imaging and
data science. Eventually, the critical need to manage a continually
growing pool of research data collided with the prohibitively huge
investment presented by its previously deployed proprietary
hardware solutions, leaving the University at a crossroads.
Monash University selected Red Hat to implement a
software-defined solution using Red Hat Ceph Storage on Dell EMC
PowerEdge R630 and R730xd rack servers that can accelerate
application performance, simplify systems management and address
workloads at any level. Using Red Hat Ceph Storage as an object
store, Monash projects that its software-defined storage solution
will significantly reduce costs and give researchers the freedom to
independently and incrementally add capacity and performance for
future growth.
Monash University’s eResearch Centre is now able to store and
manage massive workloads of data, already encompassing five
petabytes, within a single infrastructure. In addition to tight
integration with OpenStack components and services along with
strong life cycle management, Red Hat Ceph Storage allows for
replication and erasure coding capabilities for increased data
protection and availability.
Supporting Quotes
Steve Quenette, deputy director, Monash eResearch Center, Monash
University “As a research institution, we are faced with the
challenge of virtually limitless data, not only from new projects
but from archived and long-tail research. One of our key concerns
in this process was having enough storage space in an OpenStack
cloud environment, as it supports the majority of use cases from
our researchers. With Red Hat Ceph Storage, we have been able to
alleviate those concerns and have confidence in our ability to
support future workloads with an intuitive, cost effective
solution.”
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage,
Red Hat“Monash University’s eResearch Centre’s concern with
managing ever-increasing amounts of data is a challenge that many
organizations are likely to experience in the coming years. A 2016
study, commissioned by Red Hat, found that 70 percent of IT
decision makers believe that their organizations’ storage
solutions are not equipped to handle next generation
workloads.1 Monash University is a prime example of meeting that
challenge head-on by not only focusing on the resolution of today’s
pain points but also having the foresight to plan for future
needs. We are proud to collaborate with such a prestigious
institution to enable further research.”
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