Industry Heavyweights Join Red Hat Storage Ecosystem

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced strong partner support for Red Hat Storage, the company's scale-out, open source storage software for the management of unstructured data. Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 debuts with a strong ecosystem of industry-leading partners, including Cisco, Groupware, Intel, Mainline and Synnex.

With virtualization, cloud computing, mobile devices and social media helping to drive adoption, the market opportunity for scale-out storage is growing rapidly. Industry analysts estimate revenue for the scale-out storage market will reach more than $18 billion by 2015, a more than 20 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR).1 Enterprise Strategy Group further estimates that by 2015, 80 percent of all new external networked storage shipment revenue will come from systems based on scale-out architectures,2 and that externally networked scale-out storage shipments in commercial and government sectors will increase from 4,189 petabytes (PB) in 2010 to 62,834 PB in 2015, reflecting a 72 percent CAGR that exceeds the overall external networked storage growth rate of 54 percent.

Red Hat Storage is designed to address organizations' growing needs around the management of unstructured data, and through ecosystem collaboration with Red Hat, leading solution providers can leverage the open and flexible nature of Red Hat Storage and can develop unique solutions that give the power of choice back to customers. Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 launches today with support from the following Red Hat partners: Cisco, Groupware, Intel, Mainline and Synnex.

To learn more about the Red Hat Storage partner ecosystem, visit the Storage Alley at Red Hat Summit, taking place in Boston, June 26-29. Additionally, Red Hat executives will be hosting a press conference including further details on Red Hat Storage that will be broadcast live from Red Hat Summit in Boston at 1:00 p.m. ET on June 27, 2012. The webcast will also be available for replay. To join, visithttps://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:QS!10100&ShowKey=9438.