Red Hat and QCT are working together to increase private and hybrid cloud deployments, and to enable customer success on the combined offerings through joint testing, validations, reference architectures, and more.
Red Hat has open source solutions spanning the data centre’s four footprints - from bare metal and virtualised environments to private and public cloud. Red Hat is also a staunch supporter of OpenStack - both in contributions to the upstream OpenStack community as well as delivery of a production-ready OpenStack platform to enterprise customers. It is also the principal sponsor of Ceph, the unified, scalable distributed storage platform that supports OpenStack-based clouds.
QCT is a global hyperscale data centre solution provider. The company’s products are designed to deliver the benefits of hyperscale performance, in standard SKUs and for customers of all sizes. QCT is a longtime supporter of the OpenStack project, as well as of Open Compute and others.
Two initiatives that Red Hat and QCT plan to collaborate on are:
QCT's Cloud Solution Centers
Red Hat has open source solutions spanning the data centre’s four footprints - from bare metal and virtualised environments to private and public cloud. Red Hat is also a staunch supporter of OpenStack - both in contributions to the upstream OpenStack community as well as delivery of a production-ready OpenStack platform to enterprise customers. It is also the principal sponsor of Ceph, the unified, scalable distributed storage platform that supports OpenStack-based clouds.
QCT is a global hyperscale data centre solution provider. The company’s products are designed to deliver the benefits of hyperscale performance, in standard SKUs and for customers of all sizes. QCT is a longtime supporter of the OpenStack project, as well as of Open Compute and others.
Two initiatives that Red Hat and QCT plan to collaborate on are:
QCT's Cloud Solution Centers
Unveiled in late 2015 with the support of Red Hat and others, the Cloud Solution Centers in California in the US. and in Taiwan help customers experience, test and implement QCT's software-defined infrastructure solutions for private and hybrid cloud development. They can also receive guidance from industry experts like Red Hat on the deployment of open cloud technologies.
Joint reference architectures
Joint reference architectures
Following extensive testing and validation, Red Hat and QCT architects have developed several reference architectures to enable customer deployment success with Red Hat Ceph Storage - a massively scalable and open software-defined storage platform - and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform - a production-ready infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution, on QCT servers, storages and switches. A reference architecture is available for Red Hat Ceph Storage on the configuration of QCT QxStor Red Hat Ceph Storage Edition featuring QCT QuantaGrid D51PH-1ULH and QCT QuantaPlex T21P-4U servers.
Scott Musson, VP, Global Strategic Alliances, Red Hat said, “Enterprises are increasingly seeking to emulate the efficiencies achieved by public cloud providers but with the increased security, control and flexibility of private and hybrid cloud environments. By collaborating with QCT, we are aiming to bring our joint expertise to customers looking for OpenStack and Ceph-based cloud environments, with confidence that our solutions have been jointly tested and validated.”
Mike Yang, GM, QCT added, “This collaboration with Red Hat delivers performance-optimised configurations for a broad spectrum of enterprise IT use cases. Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, combined with the hyperscale efficiency and performance QCT products offer customers a powerful and cost-effective path to hybrid cloud success. It’s another example of our leadership in the global server market as the shift to private and hybrid cloud computing gains momentum.”
Scott Musson, VP, Global Strategic Alliances, Red Hat said, “Enterprises are increasingly seeking to emulate the efficiencies achieved by public cloud providers but with the increased security, control and flexibility of private and hybrid cloud environments. By collaborating with QCT, we are aiming to bring our joint expertise to customers looking for OpenStack and Ceph-based cloud environments, with confidence that our solutions have been jointly tested and validated.”
Mike Yang, GM, QCT added, “This collaboration with Red Hat delivers performance-optimised configurations for a broad spectrum of enterprise IT use cases. Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, combined with the hyperscale efficiency and performance QCT products offer customers a powerful and cost-effective path to hybrid cloud success. It’s another example of our leadership in the global server market as the shift to private and hybrid cloud computing gains momentum.”
The two companies have kicked off a series of global events to showcase the joint solutions and reference architectures and to share details about the jumpstart programme for early access of a testing environment in QCT’s Cloud Solution Centers. The first event, the Taiwan Ceph Summit, was held in March in Taiwan, and more road shows are planned in other parts of the world throughout 2016.
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