Munich Trade Fair chooses Red Hat Global File System to manage web services

Munich Trade Fair chooses Red Hat Global File System to manage web services

Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world’s leading provider of open source to the enterprise, today announced that Messe München International (Munich International Trade Fair – MMI), one of the world’s leading trade fair companies, has deployed Red Hat Global File System (GFS) as its cluster file system for its web services. Red Hat GFS runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and will enable MMI to realize high-performance and scalability for the future, which were the main deciding factors for the trade fair company.

Red Hat brought on board ATIX, its Advanced Partner for clustering and storage, for this deployment. ATIX developed a highly sophisticated cluster solution with virtualized storage based on Red Hat Global File System. The new system, based entirely on open source software, has already passed its first tests.

As MMI’s business continues to expand worldwide by the middle of 2005 it was apparent that its existing infrastructure for providing web services was no longer fully able to cope with the increased requirements, but any further scaling of the system would have involved great expense. As MMI had great experience with Linux before using the NFS file system for Linux clustering running on Debian for its previous system, it wanted to continue to benefit from the flexibility and vendor- independence of Linux and it turned to Red Hat.

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