Red Hat Gluster Storage allows organizations to repurpose existing industry-standard servers as storage servers rather than purchasing new hardware from storage vendors. It also allows storage clusters to be grown incrementally and for storage innovations to be delivered independently of hardware upgrades. In contrast, traditional storage appliances limit organizations to the hardware, increments of growth, and feature timelines defined by the vendor. Red Hat Gluster Storage also provides near-linear performance scaling and 3-year total cost of ownership that is hundreds of thousands of dollars lower than traditional storage vendors for a 1PB throughput-optimized configuration.