RALEIGH, N.C., Starnberg, 18. Nov. 2015 – Red Hat Storage erweitert bisherige Go-to-Market-Strategie um ein breites weltweites Partnermodell für Gluster und Ceph...
Zum Hintergrund: Storage im Kontext Cloud Deployments und Virtualisierung ist derzeit ein zentrales Thema bei allen großen Firmen und Organisationen. Das Storage Consortium sprach hierzu gestern mit Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage and Big Data von Red Hat (1) im Rahmen der folgenden weltweiten Ankündigung des Anbieters. Red Hat, Inc. kündigte hierzu eine breitere Verfügbarkeit von Red Hat’s Storage Portfolio an offenen, software-defined Storagelösungen an. Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage werden dazu Teil des sog. Red Hat Connect for Business Partners and Red Hat Embedded Programms. Für Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Providers ermöglichen sich damit in 2016 neue Geschäftsfelder im Bereich der wachsenden Enterprise Storage Workloads. Nachfolgend der Originaltext (Auszug) in engl. Sprache: "Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage solutions now available to Red Hat business partners, embedded partners, and cloud and service providers..."
Red Hat Connect Business Partners
Generally available today, Red Hat Ceph Storage joins Red Hat Gluster Storage in the Red Hat Connect for Business Partners program. Red Hat Advanced and Premier partners that meet the training requirements for their region's partner program via Red Hat Online Partner Enablement Network (OPEN) are authorized to sell Red Hat Storage solutions. Resellers benefit from competitive and flexible pricing models and an opportunity to earn additional margin and/or recurring revenue.
Red Hat Embedded Partners
Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage subscriptions are scheduled to be available to partners through the Red Hat Embedded Program by the end of 2015. Partners will be able to more quickly and efficiently deliver comprehensive storage offerings to market built upon Red Hat's trusted storage technologies.
Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Providers
Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage are scheduled to become available to Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Providers in 2016. Training and certification, marketing and sales programs, and technical content for Red Hat Storage solutions will be available to certified partners in the Red Hat Connect for Business Partners portal.
Quotes:
(1) Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage and Big Data, Red Hat: “Today’s announcement makes Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage available to enterprises in more ways than ever before. Red Hat’s open, software-defined storage products provide flexibility to present exciting business opportunities for our global resellers and our embedded, cloud and service provider partners.”
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- Bernhard Brandwitte, vice president, Global Storage Business, Fujitsu: “Integrating Red Hat Ceph Storage software with Fujitsu’s performance-optimized system technology into a fully integrated and end-to-end serviced storage system called ETERNUS CD10000, we enable IT organizations to more quickly benefit from open source while avoiding operational risks. As a Red Hat embedded partner, Fujitsu contributes to enterprise-class data service levels for software-defined and hyperscale storage.”
- Ashish Nadkarni, program director, IDC: “Businesses are eager to transform their IT departments to embrace next generation applications. Such technologies and services (what IDC collectively refers to as 3rd platform technologies and services) require an agile and data driven infrastructure. With an open and community-based software-defined approach Red Hat is in a unique position to capitalize on this transformation. By making their Ceph Storage and Gluster Storage enterprise-procurement friendly, Red Hat is positioning itself as a formidable IT storage supplier.”
- Paul Evans, principal architect, Daystrom: “Storage is a critical component of IT, and savvy business leaders know it’s time to move to software-centric solutions. That's exactly why we partnered with Red Hat. Red Hat Storage provides the key ingredients for success today: trusted enterprise software, a smart network of partners, and solid 24x7 support—tools that businesses need to remain viable in a technology-driven world. As Red Hat unveils its programs for the enterprise distribution channel, Daystrom is pleased to be helping drive them. We believe that software-defined storage--the open source way--is the route to take to market."
Additional Resources
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