This document discusses Red Hat Storage, an open, unified, and extensible scale-out network attached storage software solution. Red Hat Storage provides a highly flexible and scalable platform to address challenges around growing unstructured data volumes. It delivers global data accessibility, support for virtualized and cloud environments, and cost efficiency through standardization and use of commodity hardware.

2. STORAGE FOR THE NEW ERA
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Title, Red Hat
December 2011

3. IT VALUE TRANSFORMATION

4. VOLUME ECONOMICS AND STANDARDIZATION

5. UNSTRUCTURED DATA GROWTH AND ACCELERATION

6. TRADITIONAL STORAGE SYSTEM CHALLENGES

7. NEW REQUIREMENTS FOR STORAGE
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Consistent global information accessibility
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Consistent access across both low and high-latency networks
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Cost effectiveness and scalability designed for big data growth
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Support for cloud and virtualized environments
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Open System – Empowering storage developers

8. WHAT IS RED HAT STORAGE?
Open, Unified, and Extensible Scale-out Network
Attached Storage (NAS) Software Solution for
On-premise, Virtualized and Cloud Environments

9. DELIVERING THE NEXT GENERATION OF STORAGE

10. DELIVERING SCALE-OUT NAS FLEXIBILITY

11. TACKLING TODAY'S UNSTRUCTURED DATA CHALLENGE

12. ENABLING YOU TO MAKE STORAGE A STRATEGIC ASSET

13. DELIVERING ON VOLUME ECONOMICS
< 0.30 per GB*

14. PANDORA RADIO
1.2 PB of audio served per week
Global Audio 13 million files
Content Distribution 80 Storage Nodes
Over 50 GB/sec peak traffic

15. PRODUCT PORTFOLIO
> 75 Compatible and Supported Systems and Storage
Dell, HP Fujitsu, IBM, Cisco, Hitachi, NEC, Supermicro

16. INNOVATING TO MEET THE CHALLENGES OF BIG DATA
Access
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Continuous global replication
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Posix compliant
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Unified file and object storage
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Access across high and low-latency connections
Scale
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Eliminates traditional Metadata server bottlenecks
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Spans Data-center, virtualized environments and the Cloud
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Provide on-demand capacity scaling
Extensibility
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Extensible by enterprise developers
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Process data and analytics on storage node
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Open architecture and Translator modules

17. COMMUNITY DRIVEN INNOVATION

18. NTT Biz Simple Disk – Powered by RH Storage
Community Driven Innovation
Multi-tenant storage service
NTT Communications' 10TB – 3PB per customer
“Biz Simple Disk” 99.99999999% uptime

19. ENSURING SUCCESSFUL CUSTOMER DEPLOYMENTS
Professional Services
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Red Hat Storage Accelerator Service
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A one week, fixed price consulting engagement
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Accelerates deployment of a Red Hat Storage cluster as a NAS for unstructured data
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Red Hat Storage Solution Architecture Service
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Advanced, solution design and implementation level engagement
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Based on the use cases and methods validated by Red Hat
Red Hat Certified Storage Engineers
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Currently under development, this program will provide certification to individuals and
partners

20. RAPIDLY GROWING PARTNER ECOSYSTEM

21. SUMMARY: RED HAT STORAGE VALUE
Highly Flexible
Highly scalable storage
 Physical, Virtual, Cloud and Hybrid
deployment models
 Multiple peta-byte clusters
 File and Object access protocols
 Geo-replication to disperse data
Deployment Agnostic
Highly cost-effective  Deploy On-premise, in the public
 Leverages commodity x86 servers cloud or a hybrid setup.
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Leverages existing capacity within
Virtual Machine environment
Open & standards based
 NFS, CIFS, HTTP

22. LEARN MORE ABOUT RED HAT STORAGE
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Resource listing
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URLS

23. Storage Directions