Red Hat GFS Now Supported by Oracle, EMC and NetApp

Red Hat GFS Now Supported by Oracle, EMC and NetApp

Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ:RHAT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, announced today that Red Hat Global File System (GFS) is now supported by Oracle for use in Oracle RAC solutions, EMC CLARiiON® networked storage systems, EMC Celerra® iSCSI network attached storage (NAS) systems solutions and NetApp for SAN interface solutions. Red Hat GFS is the first third-party cluster file system supported by Oracle for RAC solutions on Linux.

“Commercial users don’t want to be lab rats. The endorsement of GFS by some of the biggest players in the market signifies this solution is really ready for prime time,” said Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst at The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. “I expect we’ll see lots of large deployments in the very near future.”

Red Hat GFS is the open source cluster file system designed for high-performance enterprise workloads, such as Oracle RAC, web and application server clusters. GFS makes it possible to manage a cluster of servers and shared storage as if it were a single system, by providing a common cluster-wide filesystem. Having a common file system eliminates conflicts and problems that arise when different servers want to access the same file at the same time.

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