INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
Hat acquires Permabit Assets to
ease barriers to Cloud Portability
Red Hat to enhance cloud-native and Linux container solutions
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux-ready data deduplication and
compression portfolio from Permabit
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ed Hat, a leading provider of open
source solutions which operates in
the Middle East, has announced
that it has acquired the assets and
technology of Permabit Technology
Corporation, a provider of software for
data deduplication, compression and
thin provisioning.
With the addition of Permabit’s
data deduplication and compression
capabilities to the world’s leading
enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, Red Hat will be able
to better enable enterprise digital
transformation through more efficient
storage options.
As more enterprises move towards
adopting the efficiencies offered by
digital technologies like Linux containers
and cloud computing, being able to run
these services and store the resulting
data requires new storage needs
outside of what is offered by traditional
storage technologies.
Storage efficiency is a key piece in
addressing these needs, particularly
with the emergence of hyperconverged
infrastructure (HCI) which blends
storage and compute onto a single x86 server.
Enterprise-class, open source solutions can help to address
the storage challenges posed by these digitally transformative
technologies by using software to increase the amount of
storage available to applications without increasing the
amount of physical storage.
With Permabit’s technology, Red Hat can now bring powerful
data deduplication and compression features into Red Hat
Enterprise Linux itself, which will also enhance capabilities
across Red Hat’s hybrid cloud and storage technologies,
including Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform and Red Hat Storage.
Consistent with its commitment to delivering fully open source
solutions and upstream-first innovation, Red Hat plans to
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open source Permabit’s technology. This will enable customers
to use a single, supported and fully-open platform to drive
storage efficiency, without having to rely on heterogeneous
tools or customised and poorly-supported operating systems.
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Red Hat,
said: “Digitally transformative technologies, including
cloud infrastructure, Linux containers and hyper-converged
infrastructure, require enterprises to re-examine overlooked
or previously commoditised technology decisions, especially
storage, to gain as many efficiencies as possible for
business evolution.
“With the addition of Permabit’s data deduplication and
compression tools to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat will be
ready to support these organisations as they seek to derive a
more efficient storage footprint to power business innovation.” n
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