Red Hat Inc, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced the availability of the Red Hat Storage portfolio of open, software-defined storage solutions on an expanded range of routes to market.

By making Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage solutions part of the Red Hat Connect for Business Partners and Red Hat Embedded programmes, and for Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Providers in 2016, Red Hat partners can now create new business opportunities for today’s and tomorrow’s enterprise storage workloads.

Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage and Big Data, Red Hat said: “Today’s announcement makes Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage available to enterprises in more ways than ever before. Red Hat’s open, software-defined storage products provide flexibility to present exciting business opportunities for our global resellers and our embedded, cloud and service provider partners.”

Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage are open source, scale-out software-defined storage solutions that run on commodity hardware and have durable, programmable architectures.

Each Red Hat Storage product is well-suited for different enterprise workloads, bringing compelling benefits to enterprises. Enterprise customers can work with a variety of partners to purchase and deploy Red Hat Storage solutions.

Generally available today, Red Hat Ceph Storage joins Red Hat Gluster Storage in the Red Hat Connect for Business Partners programme.

Red Hat Advanced and Premier partners that meet the training requirements for their region's partner programme via Red Hat Online Partner Enablement Network (OPEN) are authorised to sell Red Hat Storage solutions.

Resellers benefit from competitive and flexible pricing models and an opportunity to earn additional margin and/or recurring revenue.

Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage subscriptions are scheduled to be available to partners through the Red Hat Embedded Programme by the end of 2015. Partners will be able to more quickly and efficiently deliver comprehensive storage offerings to market built upon Red Hat's trusted storage technologies.

Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage are scheduled to become available to Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Providers in 2016. Training and certification, marketing and sales programmes, and technical content for Red Hat Storage solutions will be available to certified partners in the Red Hat Connect for Business Partners portal.