IBM has announced that it will incorporate the Red Hat Storage product roadmap and its associated teams into the IBM Storage business unit to provide enterprises with consistent application and data storage across local infrastructures and the cloud.

With this move, IBM will integrate Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) storage technologies as the foundation for IBMSpectrum Fusion. This combines IBM and Red Hat's containerized storage technology for providing data services and helps accelerate IBM's capabilities in the emerging Kubernetes platform market.

In addition, IBM intends to offer a new Ceph solution that provides a unified software-defined storage platform that bridges the architectural divide between data center and cloud providers. This will further advance IBM's leadership position in the software-defined storage and Kubernetes platform market.

Under the agreement between IBM and Red Hat, IBM will assume lead sponsorship of the Ceph Foundation, and Ceph Foundation members will collaborate to drive innovation, development, marketing and community activities for the Ceph open source project. will continue to follow an upstream-first model that reinforces IBM's commitment to these important communities. the involvement of the Ceph leadership team and other aspects of the open source project is a key priority for IBM to maintain and nurture Red Hat's ongoing innovation.

Red Hat and IBM intend to complete the transition by January 1, 2023, which will involve the storage roadmap and the transfer of relevant Red Hat employees to IBM's storage business unit. After this date, Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus will continue to include OpenShift Data Foundation, sold by Red Hat and its partners. in addition, Red Hat OpenStack customers will still be able to purchase 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 expand their storage footprint as needed, without changing their relationship with Red Hat.

The upcoming Ceph-based IBM Ceph and IBM Spectrum Fusion storage solutions are reportedly expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2023.

source：aijiwei