Today Red Hat, Inc. announced that its Gluster Storage is now available in Google Cloud Platform. Gluster is for Google customers that are elastic and robust file storage across public and hybrid cloud environments. This marks yet another public cloud expansion for Gluster as Red Hat announced Gluster on Azure in November.
Today Red Hat, Inc. announced that its Gluster Storage is now available in Google Cloud Platform. Gluster is for Google customers that are elastic and robust file storage across public and hybrid cloud environments. This marks yet another public cloud expansion for Gluster as Red Hat announced Gluster on Azure in November.
Red Hat acquired Gluster back in 2011. Gluster is a software-defined storage (SDS) solution that enables easy management of unstructured data for physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Gluster is able to deliver rich functionality without specific hardware dependencies. Customers can now deploy Gluster on-premise and in Azure cloud, easing the adoption of cloud for Linux workloads. The POSIX compatibility also gives users the ability to move exiting Gluster applications that are on-premise to the cloud without the need to rewrite them.
Customers that deploy Gluster on Google Cloud Platform can deploy the same storage technology on-premises and on Google Cloud Platform. This means that they have the flexibility to take their existing applications with them as they move into the cloud.
Benefits include:
- Elastic scalability – With Red Hat Gluster Storage, customers can have the elastic scalability to enable them to meet evolving business demands for their public cloud environments. Aggregating multiple Google Persistent Disks, Red Hat Gluster Storage can create a single, more secure and highly available storage pool that can scale to petabytes of data in minutes without disruption.
- Agility – Red Hat Gluster Storage provides the agility required to migrate data and applications to the public cloud or to extend on-premises storage infrastructure to the cloud. The POSIX-compatible distributed file system makes deploying a variety of applications to Google Cloud Platform possible by providing a compatible, universal storage platform without having to rewrite applications.
- Robust data protection for on-premise data – With Red Hat Gluster Storage, customers can integrate cloud into their backup or data protection strategy. The public cloud can serve as a backup or disaster recovery solution for production data or applications, enabling customers to replicate data from on-premises environments to Google Cloud Platform.
Availability
Red Hat Gluster Storage is available on Google Cloud Platform now.
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