Red Hat announces availability of Storage 2.0 beta

A beta version of Red Hat Storage 2.0 was announced Monday by the Massachusetts-based open-source software company.

The product -- which is based on RHEL 6 -- provides a host of new options for software-based management of scalable storage, according to Red Hat, as well as integration with many top enterprise storage technologies like virtualization and Hadoop.

"This new functionality enables faster file access and opens up data within Hadoop deployments to other file-based or object-based applications," Red Hat said in a statement. Read more...