Newly expanded software-defined storage
portfolio enables IBM to deliver a consistent experience from
edge-to-core-to-cloud
ARMONK,
N.Y., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) announced today it will add Red Hat storage products and Red
Hat associate teams to the IBM Storage business unit, bringing
consistent application and data storage across on-premises
infrastructure and cloud.
With the move, IBM will integrate the storage technologies from
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) as the foundation for IBM
Spectrum Fusion. This combines IBM and Red Hat's container storage
technologies for data services and helps accelerate IBM's
capabilities in the burgeoning Kubernetes platform market.
In addition, IBM intends to offer new Ceph solutions
delivering a unified and software defined storage platform
that bridges the architectural divide between the data center and
cloud providers. This further advances IBM's leadership in the
software defined storage and Kubernetes platform markets.
According to Gartner, by 2025, 60% of infrastructure and
operations (I&O) leaders will implement at least one of the
hybrid cloud storage architectures, which is a significant increase
from 20% in 2022.1 IBM's software defined storage
strategy is to take a "born in the cloud, for the cloud"
approach—unlocking bi-directional application and data mobility
based on a shared, secure, and cloud-scale software defined storage
foundation.
"Red Hat and IBM have been working closely for many years, and
today's announcement enhances our partnership and streamlines our
portfolios," said Denis Kennelly,
general manager of IBM Storage, IBM Systems. "By bringing together
the teams and integrating our products under one roof, we are
accelerating the IBM's hybrid cloud storage strategy while
maintaining commitments to Red Hat customers and the open-source
community."
"Red Hat and IBM have a shared belief in the mission of hybrid
cloud-native storage and its potential to help customers transform
their applications and data," said Joe
Fernandes, vice president of hybrid platforms, Red Hat.
"With IBM Storage taking stewardship of Red Hat Ceph Storage and
OpenShift Data Foundation, IBM will help accelerate open-source
storage innovation and expand the market opportunity beyond what
each of us could deliver on our own. We believe this is a clear win
for customers who can gain a more comprehensive platform with new
hybrid cloud-native storage capabilities."
As customers formulate their hybrid cloud strategies, critical
to success is the emphasis and importance of infrastructure
consistency, application agility, IT management and flexible
consumption consistency as deciding factors to bridge across
on-premises and cloud deployments.
With these changes to the IBM portfolio, clients will have
access to a consistent set of storage services while preserving
data resilience, security, and governance across bare metal,
virtualized and containerized environments. Some of the many
benefits of the software defined portfolio available from IBM will
include:
- A unified storage experience for all containerized apps running
on Red Hat OpenShift: Customers can use IBM Spectrum Fusion (now
with Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation) to achieve the highest
levels of performance, scale, automation, data protection, and data
security for production applications running on OpenShift that
require block, file, and/or object access to data. This enables
development teams to focus on the apps, not the ops, with
infrastructure-as-code designed for simplified, automated managing
and provisioning.
- A consistent hybrid cloud experience at enterprise levels of
scale and resiliency with IBM Ceph: Customers can deliver their
private and hybrid cloud architectures on IBM's unified and
software defined storage solution, providing capacity and
management features. Capabilities include data protection, disaster
recovery, high availability, security, auto-scaling, and
self-healing portability, that are not tied to hardware, and travel
with the data as it moves between on-premises and cloud
environments.
- A single data lakehouse to aggregate and derive intelligence
from unstructured data on IBM Spectrum Scale: Customers can address
the challenges that often come with quickly scaling a centralized
data approach with a single platform to support data-intensive
workloads such as AI/ML, high performance computing, and others.
Benefits can include less time and effort to administer, reduced
data movement and redundancy, direct access to data for analytics
tools, advanced schema management and data governance, all
supported by distributed file and object storage engineered to be
cost effective.
- Build in the cloud, deploy on-premises with automation:
Customers can move developed applications from the cloud to
on-premises services, automate the creation of staging environments
to test deployment procedures, validate configuration changes,
database schema and data updates, and ready package updates to
overcome obstacles in production or correct errors before they
become a problem that affects business operations.
"IBM and Red Hat speaking with one voice on storage is
delivering the synergies derived from IBM's Red Hat acquisition,"
said Ashish Nadkarni, group vice
president and general manager, Infrastructure Systems at IDC. "The
combining of the two storage teams is a win for IT organizations as
it brings together the best that both offer: An industry-leading
storage systems portfolio meets an industry-leading
software-defined data services offering. This initiative enables
IBM and Red Hat to streamline their family of offerings, passing
the benefits to their customers. It also helps accelerate
innovation in storage to solve the data challenges for hybrid
cloud, all while maintaining their commitment to open source."
Preserving commitment to Red Hat clients and the
community
Under the agreement between IBM and Red Hat, IBM will assume
Premier Sponsorship of the Ceph Foundation, whose members
collaborate to drive innovation, development, marketing, and
community events for the Ceph open-source project. IBM Ceph and Red
Hat OpenShift Data Foundation will remain 100% open source and will
continue to follow an upstream-first model, reinforcing IBM's
commitment to these vital communities. Participation by the Ceph
leadership team and other aspects of the open-source project is a
key IBM priority to maintain and nurture ongoing Red Hat
innovation.
Red Hat and IBM intend to complete the transition by
January 1, 2023, which will involve
the transfer of storage roadmaps and Red Hat associates to the IBM
Storage business unit. Following this date, Red Hat OpenShift
Platform Plus will continue to include OpenShift Data Foundation,
sold by Red Hat and its partners. Additionally, Red Hat OpenStack
customers will still be able to buy Red Hat Ceph Storage from Red
Hat and its partners. Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenStack
customers with existing subscriptions will be able to maintain and
grow their storage footprints as needed, with no change in their
Red Hat relationship.
Forthcoming IBM Ceph and IBM Spectrum Fusion storage solutions
based on Ceph are expected to ship beginning in the first half of
2023.
Read more about today's news in this blog from Denis Kennelly, general manager of IBM Storage,
IBM Systems: "IBM + Red Hat: Doubling Down on Hybrid Cloud
Storage"
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About IBM
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provider, helping clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on
insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce
costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly
3,800 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure
areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare
rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect
their digital transformations quickly, efficiently, and
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1 Gartner, Market Guide for Hybrid Cloud
Storage, Julia
Palmer, Kevin
Ji, Chandra Mukhyala,
3 October 2022
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