Red Hat bolsters its storage offerings

Red Hat is adding to its storage portfolio with the acquisition of Gluster.
Round-up of today's M&A deals


Red Hat is adding to its storage portfolio with the acquisition of Gluster.
Round-up of today’s M&A deals

Red Hat is adding to its storage portfolio with the acquisition of Gluster. A combination of GNU and Cluster, Gluster builds GlusterFS, an open source, scale-out file system for storing and managing unstructured data.

The deal is for a consideration of $136 million in cash, with Red Hat to integrate Gluster’s unstructured data management into its storage offerings.

‘Our customers are looking for software-based storage solutions that manage their file-based data on-premises, in the cloud, and bridging between the two,’ says Brian Stevens, chief technology officer and vice president of worldwide engineering at Red Hat.

‘With unstructured data growth (such as log files, virtual machines, email, audio, video, and documents), the ’90s paradigm of forcing everything into expensive, single-system [database management systems] residing on an internal corporate SAN has become unwieldy and impractical.’

This is not the first storage acquisition for Red Hat. In 2003, the company acquired Sistina and the Sistina SAN File System. It now markets Sistina as the Red Hat Global File System. In 2008, the company acquired Qumranet, the maker of the KVM virtualisation hypervisor, which Gluster supports.

Round-up of today’s M&A deals

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Todd Cardy

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