Redhat Gluster Storage Servers

Red Hat Gluster Storage

Red Hat Gluster Storage software is designed to dominate at high capacity tasks and excel in high performance situations such as virtualisation or analytics. It's both adaptable and cost effective as it can scale efficiently across cloud, virtual and container deployments. With a strong focus on usability and user experience, Red Hat's Gluster storage software is very simple to use.

At the core of this software is a hugely scalable, open source distributed file system (DFS). This DFS allows different organisations to combine many storage and compute resources into one centrally managed storage pool that is virtualised and high performance. Red Hat Gluster Storage uses block storage, which stores data in chunks on connected computers.

Who Are Red Hat?

Red Hat are a well-known brand that have managed to build themselves into the first ever $2billion open source company. Having committed early to open source tech, they have established themselves as one of the most popular storage technology software providers.

Features

There are a number of features that make Red Hat Gluster Storage one of the very best server storage software solutions on the market.

Arbiter volumes lessen the overall footprint of the hardware without causing a decrease in the level of data integrity. Deployment is really simple, with enterprises being able to deploy on commodity hardware within minutes. In only a few mouse clicks, extra storage can be deployed by users. It features integrated NFSv4 support as well as bit rot detection.

Red Hat Gluster OS uses automatic storage tiering to improve the performance of files that are frequently accessed. With Red Hat Gluster Storage you will experience a reduction in cost of distributed, highly available storage. Data integrity is preserved, leading to a lower risk of any breaches or non-compliance. There is much quicker back-end storage for live VMs.

Community

A great advantage of using open source software is the community around it is often so strong, and it's the same for Red Hat, whose software draws upon ideas, innovations and work from a community of users. The community includes customers, developers and partners alike, all contributing to the success and the quality of the software.

Hands Off Management

An advantage of using Red Hat's storage server software is the hands-off aspect of the management. With an elastic hashing algorithm, the software can store data without needing a metadata server. This ensures that there isn't a single point of failure.

Great Scalability

This software is very adaptable, in that it scales with you as you grow. Business changes won't mean you have to create a new storage environment for each project. The software allows you to start on a smaller scale and grow to support larger needs as your business evolves. For organisations that require huge amounts of storage, they can simple deploy large scale out storage very cost efficiently.

This solution has been designed from scratch for unlimited scalability. You can easily add and remove storage. The elastic architecture allows users to seamlessly extend storage to meet their dynamic requirements.

Security

Red Hat Gluster Storage has strong security that utilises erasure coding to keep your data safe. Erasure Coding works by breaking down data into tiny parts which are then expanded and encoded with a bunch of irrelevant and redundant data. After this the parts are stored across many different locations, making it very unlikely and difficult for anyone to steal your data.

It also features advanced data protection, which reduces the possibility of any data breaches through its preservation of data asset integrity.

Latest Technology

Red Hat designs its storage servers to be compatible with the latest technology, such as NVMe drives.

Open Source

Based on GlusterFS (an open source project), this software is reliable and well suited for both semi-structured and unstructured storage requirements. In addition to this it is also very well suited for big data storage.

No Vendor Locking

Many brands employ vendor locking on their products, meaning the only products compatible with the software will be products from either the company itself or its associates. Red Hat do not vendor lock and are proud to allow their customers to keep their options open.

Why Broadberry

For 3 decades we have built up a reputation of providing enterprise-grade server and storage solutions with reliability and consistency. We have maintained a very high standard of excellence that has allowed us to work with some of the worlds largest brands such as the BBC, NASA, SONY, TESCO, SKY and many more. Having received a wide array of awards over the year for our high quality of work and service, we have established ourselves as one of the very best server technology providers in the industry.

The storage servers we provide are completely compatible with all server software. We are the only company that provides servers that have universal compatibility, meaning you are never stuck having to have another huge outlay for hardware should you want to change your software to something new.

We do not include any hidden charges and our prices are fair and consistent. Unlike many of the big names in this industry, we do not hike up fees and over charge our customers for things like future storage upgrades - with Broadberry you get the highest quality products and services at the best prices.